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Ben Fellows / December 8, 2025

Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow PSVR 2 Review.Developed by Maze Theory and published by Vertigo Games, Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow slips onto PS5 via PSVR 2with a clear mission in mind: make you feel like a thief again. This isn’t a sprawling reinvention of the immersive-sim pillars, nor does it carry the narrative weight of the older classics, but it does commit fully to the strengths of virtual reality. Its focus is tactile stealth, environmental interaction, and the quiet thrill of rummaging in the dark while someone patrols just one room away.

Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow (PSVR2) Review – An Immersive Return To The ShadowsFrom the moment you begin creeping through its dimly lit corridors, the game’s strongest ideas reveal themselves in the hands rather than the plotting. You physically crouch, lean, stretch, scour shelves, and slide open drawers with the kind of presence only PSVR2 can offer. Lockpicking feels satisfying, not because it’s complicated, but because you’re manipulating real space with real intent, listening closely as the pins click into place. That hands-on design becomes the backbone of the entire experience, and it’s where Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow consistently shines.

Open Sesame!

As you push deeper into the campaign, the game’s structure starts to show its limits, yet the moment-to-moment stealth often remains engaging. The levels are atmospheric and visually convincing, offering warm candlelit interiors, cluttered studies, and opulent hallways that beg to be rifled through. While they’re not wide, multi-path sandboxes, they’re arranged well enough to encourage careful planning and deliberate movement. The simplicity of the spaces helps VR interactions land more cleanly, even if seasoned stealth fans might wish for more complexity.

Yoink!

The guards, however, tell a different story. Their AI doesn’t quite match the feel of the environments around them, often behaving with predictable patterns that reduce tension if you’re searching for deep challenge. They can be slow to respond or easily fooled, which means stealth encounters occasionally drop from edge-of-your-seat to toy box experimentation. That said, the ease of manipulation sometimes plays into the fantasy, letting you experiment with different approaches in a more playful way than if the game punished every misstep. It’s a double-edged dagger, but not one that breaks the experience outright.

Thoughtful Interaction

Where the game falters most is in its mission variety and overall scope. The stealth loop rarely evolves, and the campaign leans on repetition more than it earns. The narrative is lightweight, serving more as a thread to pull you through environments than a meaningful part of the adventure. There are also occasional bugs—nothing catastrophic, but enough minor quirks to remind you that this is a smaller production working well within its means.

The Thrill Of The Lift

Still, thanks to the sheer tactility of VR, the familiar loop can remain oddly compelling even when the systems around it thin out. The act of physically navigating shadows, peeking around corners, using the built-in microphone to blow out candles to deepen the dark, and stuffing loot into your pockets carries a certain primal appeal. When you line up the perfect infiltration, slipping past a lantern’s cone of light before gently lifting a key from a desk, Thief VR finds a rhythm that taps into what the series once represented. It just delivers that feeling in miniature, with the strengths emphasised rather than expanded.

Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow is out now.

Review code kindly provided by PR.Score 7.5The Final WordThief VR: Legacy of Shadow on PSVR2 is modest in ambition but confident in its chosen identity. It doesn’t offer the sprawling systemic depth of its ancestors, nor does it push stealth AI into new territory, yet the tactile VR experience elevates what could have been forgettable into something surprisingly satisfying. The repetition, the shallow enemy behaviour, and the occasional technical hiccup undeniably pull the game down, but the undeniable charm of physically inhabiting the shadows pushes it back up. What’s left is a VR stealth experience that works because it leans into the strengths of the medium, even if it can’t fully escape its weaknesses.

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