
Thief
Eidos-Montréal · Eidos Interactive Corp.
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.
Year 13
Feb 27, 2026 - Sep 9, 2026
No verified player-facing content shipped for Thief in this window. The tracked items described announcements rather than released changes, so they were excluded from the summary.
- Verified changes: No released Thief content was captured.
Year 12
Feb 27, 2025 - Feb 27, 2026
Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow launched on December 4, 2025, bringing a new VR stealth game to the franchise. It introduced Magpie, a new thief guided by Garrett, and focused on immersive VR mechanics for stealing, evading enemies, and outsmarting guards.
- Major release: Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow launched as an all-new stealth experience set in the Thief universe, reimagining its classic gameplay for VR.
- New protagonist: Magpie became the playable thief, navigating The City with guidance from Garrett.
- VR gameplay and platforms: Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow used VR interactions for stealing, evasion, and enemy manipulation, and released on SteamVR, PlayStation VR2, and Meta Quest.
Year 11
Feb 27, 2024 - Feb 27, 2025
Year 10
Feb 27, 2023 - Feb 27, 2024
Year 9
Feb 27, 2022 - Feb 27, 2023
Year 8
Feb 27, 2021 - Feb 27, 2022
Year 7
Feb 27, 2020 - Feb 27, 2021
Year 6
Feb 27, 2019 - Feb 27, 2020
Tracked sources for Thief were limited between 2019-02-27 and 2020-02-27, with only 1 verified change captured in this window. The recorded activity centers on Updated OST Delivery for Master Thief Edition and sits between Thief: Master Thief Edition Released for Mac on 2015-11-24 (dlc_release) and Announcement of Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow on 2025-06-04 (new_content), making this a light but still readable period in the game's history.
- Verified activity: 2019-03-14 - Updated OST Delivery for Master Thief Edition: Master Thief Edition owners now automatically download OST files directly to their PC instead of using a redemption code..
- What stands out: The period is defined more by a small number of isolated updates than by a large roadmap beat or expansion-sized release.
- Before this window: The closest earlier tracked activity was Thief: Master Thief Edition Released for Mac on 2015-11-24 (dlc_release).
- After this window: The next tracked activity was Announcement of Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow on 2025-06-04 (new_content).
Year 5
Feb 27, 2018 - Feb 27, 2019
Year 4
Feb 27, 2017 - Feb 27, 2018
Year 3
Feb 27, 2016 - Feb 27, 2017
Year 2
Feb 27, 2015 - Feb 27, 2016
Thief: Master Thief Edition launched for Mac OS X on November 24, 2015, marking Feral Interactive’s port of the stealth game to Apple computers. The edition included a digital art book, comic book, and soundtrack, but did not introduce a new campaign or gameplay expansion.
- Mac OS X release: Feral Interactive brought Thief to Mac OS X through the Master Thief Edition, giving the platform its own version of the game.
- Master Thief Edition extras: The package included a mini digital art book, comic book, and soundtrack alongside Thief.
- Mac compatibility: The Mac release documented minimum and recommended system requirements, listed unsupported graphics cards, and did not support volumes formatted as Case-sensitive.
Year 1
Feb 27, 2014 - Feb 27, 2015
AMD Mantle Optimizations formed the only substantive recorded update for Thief, improving the AMD Mantle rendering path on November 7, 2014. The same work addressed AMD Mantle issues on specific hardware configurations, while no DLC, mode, story content, or seasonal event appeared in the tracked record.
- AMD Mantle Optimizations: Thief received several AMD Mantle-specific performance improvements alongside fixes for AMD Mantle issues affecting particular hardware configurations.