There are multiple games which can be classified as “first-person stealth” and an early game in this genre called Thief Gold has been directly influential in it. Defining the genre through certain qualifiers and using games which have directly been stated tohave been influenced by Thief Gold, Thief Gold has here beencompared to six subsequent games in the genre. What has been discovered is that while core similarities always exist, the same problems have different solutions depending on the overall designfor individual games.