Thief
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 11h
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon 4800 series / Nvidia GTS 250, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
January 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 102 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 85 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. On the same math Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ ($29.99, scores 49) and Dishonored ($9.99, scores 98) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On an 11-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 1,988 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
11 hours to finish it, 44 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
79% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 11-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
110 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
people hate this game for no reason. it plays fine and looks good. people hate it because its not exactly like Thief 1 and 2. the game might not live up to those standards but by itself its a very good game and people who dont think so just cant look past their own nostalgia
Played this game when i was a kid, remembered about it (the Asylum location, it was really creepy to me back then and still is) and bought it couple of days ago, loved it.
this would be a pretty good stealth game if it wasn't about 60% linear hallways and glorified cutscenes and annoying animations and disguised loading screens and if more sidequests weren't just "use a rope arrow here and then grab this object from an empty apartment room", and also it would be pretty good if they didn't do any of the other baffling design decisions they made like adding a button that lets you press...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Thief scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/239160/thiefThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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