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Thief II: The Metal Age cover art

Thief II: The Metal Age

Looking Glass Studios · Eidos Interactive Corp. · 2012-05-22

SteamGOG

ActionSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 07, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The ultimate thief is back! Tread softly as you make your way through 15 new complex, non-linear levels full of loot to steal and guards to outsmart. Improved enemy AI, new gadgets and a riveting story will draw you into the world of Thief II: The Metal Age, a place of powerful new technologies, fanatical religions and corruption.

7
playing now
94%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
86/100
IGDB user rating (158 ratings)
32h
to beat · rushed 28h · completionist 50h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.74
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Thief II: The Metal Age is a 2000 stealth video game developed by Looking Glass Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in March 2000. Like its predecessor Thief: The Dark Project, the game follows Garrett, a master thief who works in and around a steampunk metropolis called the City. The player assumes the role of Garrett as he unravels a conspiracy related to a new religious sect. Garrett takes on missions such as burglaries and frameups, while trying to avoid detection by guards and automated security.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 25% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 85k–170k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,127 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GreenManGaming$1.58-77%
Humble Store$1.74-75%
Steam$1.74-75%
GOG$1.75-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.75-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.76 at GOG (2021-06-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 56 of 88 observed days · $0.82 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2252026-08-06 22:00 — 16 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 11 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 15 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 21 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 9 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 20 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 16 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 16 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 13 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 12 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 11 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 13 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 17 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 16 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 14 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 16 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.762015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-03-23 — best price $6.952015-07-07 — best price $3.492015-11-02 — best price $6.992016-03-07 — best price $6.992016-09-08 — best price $1.742017-04-24 — best price $9.992017-12-12 — best price $2.492018-06-11 — best price $1.402018-12-21 — best price $1.402019-04-20 — best price $0.982019-10-25 — best price $0.982020-01-27 — best price $6.992020-06-19 — best price $1.192020-11-25 — best price $0.832021-03-06 — best price $6.992021-07-22 — best price $0.982021-11-29 — best price $6.992022-04-18 — best price $6.992022-08-27 — best price $0.982022-11-01 — best price $6.992023-04-24 — best price $0.972023-09-01 — best price $0.972023-11-28 — best price $6.992024-03-05 — best price $1.182024-06-20 — best price $0.972024-10-08 — best price $6.992025-02-21 — best price $6.992025-06-26 — best price $0.782025-10-06 — best price $6.992026-02-09 — best price $1.742026-06-02 — best price $6.992026-08-28 — best price $1.582026-08-30 — best price $1.74
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

248362026-05-30 — 53 pageviews2026-06-02 — 76 pageviews2026-06-05 — 45 pageviews2026-06-08 — 248 pageviews2026-06-11 — 72 pageviews2026-06-14 — 88 pageviews2026-06-17 — 54 pageviews2026-06-20 — 57 pageviews2026-06-23 — 73 pageviews2026-06-26 — 75 pageviews2026-06-29 — 64 pageviews2026-07-02 — 66 pageviews2026-07-05 — 74 pageviews2026-07-08 — 77 pageviews2026-07-11 — 56 pageviews2026-07-14 — 64 pageviews2026-07-17 — 60 pageviews2026-07-20 — 62 pageviews2026-07-23 — 57 pageviews2026-07-26 — 55 pageviews2026-07-29 — 52 pageviews2026-08-01 — 71 pageviews2026-08-04 — 51 pageviews2026-08-07 — 67 pageviews2026-08-10 — 57 pageviews2026-08-13 — 62 pageviews2026-08-16 — 63 pageviews2026-08-19 — 80 pageviews2026-08-22 — 71 pageviews2026-08-25 — 90 pageviews2026-08-27 — 69 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

DarkActionClassicFantasyStealthMedievalImmersiveSteampunkStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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