After more than a decade, classic stealth series Thief is being revived for PSVR2

Beloved first-person stealth series Thief is being resurrected for a new instalment on PlayStation VR2. It’s called Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow and it’s out later this year.

Thief, the brainchild of System Shock developer Looking Glass Studios, first surfaced back in 1998. Its initial instalment, Thief: The Dark Project, was immediately heralded as something of a classic and three further entries followed. Unfortunately, 2014’s Eidos-Montréal-developed Thief reboot was poorly received and the series floundered.

Now, though, over a decade later, Thief is back in the form of Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow. It’ll once again see players slinking through the streets of The City, but this time there’s a new protagonist doing the stealthy. Gone is the Garrett of earlier games, this time replaced by Magpie – a “cunning thief orphaned by Northcrest’s brutality and shaped by the streets, who steals as the only means to survive”.

After stumbling across a legendary artefact holding a mysterious secret, players embark on a journey across The City that’ll see them evading and outsmarting its controlling forces as they seek to expose a “sinister conspiracy”. All this, of course, takes the series’ classic shadow skulking and gives it a VR twist.