25-year-old Thief: The Dark Project gets a new leash of life with this stunning fan-made expansion

A gang of volunteer modders and developers have just released a huge expansion for the 25-year-old first-person stealth game, Thief: The Dark Project.

The Black Parade – a seven-year-long labour of love described as an “unofficial free expansion” for the game’s Thief Gold edition – bundles 10 new missions, four new tools, and “30 minutes of gorgeous cutscenes and more” into this free-to-play add-on.

You can see it in action in the teaser below:

“In The Black Parade, you play the character of Hume, a hardened criminal who was sent into exile as a punishment for his crimes,” explains the team. “The year is 833, and you are now back in The City, a sprawling metropolis of soot-caked brick, greasy fumes and noisy machinery, with many a sinister conspiracy whispered behind closed doors.