Thief: Deadly Shadows
Fair · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.5h
- Value
- $0.54/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Windows only.
You are Garrett, the master thief. Rarely seen and never caught, Garrett is the best that ever was. Able to sneak past any guard, pick any lock, and break into the most ingeniously secured residences. Garrett steals from the wealthy and gives to himself, making his living in the dark and foreboding City.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
December 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.98. 101 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 89 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 60 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Thief II: The Metal Age ($6.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ ($29.99, scores 49).
8 of the 547 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 739 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
Players
6 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
An over ambitious game that wanted it all and ended up screwing up both first person and 3rd person. Despite having terrible movement, this game somehow manages to be still really ♥♥♥ good due to its fantastic level design, unique ideas, and the still solid as ever writing. Fantastic game. I am also really glad that it went back to the horror elements of Gold. That was really cool. 8/10
A brilliant game that is still decades ahead of its time. However, its so clunky and annoying and kinda glitchy its just hard to enjoy. I honestly think if this released today with only quality of life improvements it would go gangbusters.
The game is too old for modern computers. The controls do not function like climbing ladders and picking locks. That makes it unplayeable. It took help from the online computer just to get the mouse to work. I played these games for 100's of hours back in the day (the 90's, really?). I somehow missed this one, but, alas, it is not meant to be. Had to refund it after an hour of frustration.
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: Deadly Shadows scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/6980/thief-deadly-shadowsThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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