Nightdive Studios Announces Thief: The Dark Project Remastered for Winter 2026

Nightdive Studios, Eidos-Montreal, and Atari announced Thief: The Dark Project Remastered today during the PC Gaming Show at Summer Game Fest. The remaster targets a Winter 2026 release on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG), PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2. Xbox Play Anywhere support is confirmed.

The remaster runs on Nightdive’s KEX Engine, the same technology behind last year’s System Shock 2 remaster. It includes content from both the original 1998 release and the 1999 Thief Gold re-release, bringing the full mission set together in one package. On the technical side, Nightdive has updated textures, character models, cutscenes, and animations, and added a weapon and item wheel along with a mission selector. PC players get support for custom campaigns, meaning the decades of fan-made missions created for the original game should carry over.

“Thief didn’t just introduce stealth mechanics, it defined them,” said Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick. The game won Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development at the 1999 Interactive Achievement Awards and remains one of the most influential PC games ever made. Nightdive’s track record with KEX Engine remasters makes this one worth watching.