The gameplay is super and is worth your time, despite having some strange things in the game.
The story takes place in a medieval half middle-aged, half Victorian world with industrial machines located in some places. You play as a young gentleman named Garret, who trained as a noble thief and makes his living stealing items. During the story he is hired by a client to help him steal an important artefact, which has him taken onto a journey across all kinds amazing places.
The controls are simple and are just like any other FPS, you move around a 3D world, opening doors and interacting with objects which will help you to complete the level.
The new break though feature in this game is the ability to hide away from the enemy. You will have a gem on you're screen, which will light up or dimmer down depending on how well you hide. The brighter the gem, the more visible the player will be in the world, where the guards will be able to spot the player.
The player will have an set of tools, some of the important ones will be the blackjack and a set of lockpicks which are used to open locked doors and cabinets. The thief will also have a sword and a bow, With the bow are a bunch of elemental arrows. These range from a simple arrow to water arrows to take out light sources, fire arrow to add fire to objects and to kill enemies quicker and a moss arrow to walk on loud surfaces, such as metal more quietly.
The world also has books, where the player can read documents and letters, which will give a clue about what to do during a mission or the location in general. Finally the best part is being able to steal loot, which are sorted into 3 groups, these are Gold, Gems and Goods. In total, they will give you an amount to spend on at the beginning on each missions to buy equipment and tools, however you will only have that chance to spent the amount, as you'll lose it when you start the mission. This will encourage the player to buy and full up as much as they can onto the next mission.
I remember playing the demo of this game and I had an assumption of what to expect from the full version. However as with most opinions, they are usually wrong and I am somewhat freaked out what I was coming into on the later levels.
In the first level, which came with the demo, you sneak into a guarded mansion to steal a sword, you come across servants and soldiers, however in the later early levels, you come across zombies, ghosts and deadly spiders, fair enough, if it's medieval, that's reasonable, however in the later levels, the whole place goes wild you come across crab people, weird moss creatures with human figures and exploding frogs. Couldn't it be any better?
However, most of the part, the gameplay makes up for the game and really throw you in the thief's shoes as this strongest point, makes the game worth while to play. That is, if you overlook some of the strange things that will appear.