2004 · Stealth · Steampunk · Immersive Sim
How long isThief: Deadly Shadows?
by Ion Storm
7 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 1 hour and 23 hours
Thief: Deadly Shadows among the 221 stealth games here
The whole tier list#211
of 221
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 8%
- got past 2 hours
- −34 on the kind's 42%
- 2%
- past 20 hours
- −9 on the kind's 11%
- 28%
- launched it
- −29 on the kind's 58%
- 159
- libraries own it
- 1 in 16 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Good value: $1.28 an hour, cheaper than 208 of 244 stealth games here.
61% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
80% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
85% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
90% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
95% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
Does Thief: Deadly Shadows hold up?
Grows on people

80% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% at 20–50 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Thief: Deadly Shadows tell you?
In the first two hours61%recommend it
After that89%recommend it
19 in 100 said no: 7 after the window had closed, 12 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 7 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 1 hour and 23 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,610 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 80% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 95% at 20–50 hours.
31% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 61% of those recommend it. After the window, 89% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 38% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1 hour in.
When would you get there?
7days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 7 hours on Saturday, November 21.
Half of its reviewers had played between 1 and 23 hours: tonight to Dec 7 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Thief: Deadly Shadows worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Thief: Deadly Shadows
- Steam list price, US
- $8.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 7 h
- stealth game rate
- $2.46/h
- 7 h at that rate
- $17
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Thief: Deadly Shadows worth it? Mostly.
Good value
1.9× the hours of a typical stealth game, for the same money
Liked
89% recommend it after the refund windowmost stealth games: 89%
Often left unplayed
29% of owners here have played itmost stealth games: 57%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $8.99, the typical player's 7 hours come to $1.28 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 89% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.28 an hour, Thief: Deadly Shadows is cheaper per hour than 208 of 244 stealth games here: the typical one of 244 stealth games here charges $2.46, so the same $8.99 buys 1.9× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (stealth games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Thief: Deadly Shadows today?
In a collection
Thief Collection, out on PC in 2014.
- Xbox2004
- todayPC2014in the collection
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Thief: Deadly Shadows came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Thief: Deadly Shadows?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Thief: Deadly Shadows, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Thief: Deadly Shadows would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@pr-xy holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Thief: Deadly Shadows?
1 in 1,210
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
Games like Thief: Deadly Shadows
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Thief: Deadly Shadows, but a survival horror game, and retro
Loved · 95%Games like Gloomwood
Styx: Master of Shadows
Thief: Deadly Shadows, but with parkour, and twice the hours
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Dishonored 2
Thief: Deadly Shadows, but with parkour, and three times the hours
Loved · 90%Games like Dishonored 2
Ghost of a Tale
Thief: Deadly Shadows, but cute, and twice the hours
Loved · 91%Games like Ghost of a Tale
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Thief: Deadly Shadows, but a survival game, and half the hours
Mixed · 77%Games like Sir, You Are Being Hunted
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Thief: Deadly Shadows: a kind of game it is that Thief: Deadly Shadows is not, a feature its tags carry that Thief: Deadly Shadows's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.