Why Gothic's Map Is The Best RPG Map Ever | Gothic 1 Analysis 

20 years ago Gothic had something that truly surprised me - reasonable humans that fled if the player was hostile and too powerful.

In earlier patches of the game you did not even have the arrow showing your location. You had to use it like a real world map. It could be very frustrating when you were lost, but it made hidden locations somehow more mysterious, because at times you would not know how to get there a second time.

I would even argue, that you don't ever need a map in Gothic, because the world is so well designed, that you can find your way, or get shown the way by npcs in the world.

Not many people from outside of Germany/eastern Europe even know this game. Great to see it here. The Gothic series is my number one design inspiration for the games I make.

I also love how in Gothic 2 you first have to go through dangerous forest, then make some Miniquests on Lobarts Farm, until you arrive Khorinis, where you feel safety

Great video. There is one detail I want to add: you don't start with the map, you're able to buy it fairly soon in the old camp. In my opinion this makes it more immersive since your character doesn't know this place and basically buys knowledge about it with the map.

thanks. i like that this game is getting so much good feedback these days. it deserves it.

Great Video! I also love how NPCs will ask you if you even own a map when they want to mark a position for you on the map. And if you don't they go "oh well, then I'll just have to describe it for you"

You are right about the map stuff. I also found the interface and menu design in Gothic pretty immersive, because it is very minimalistic and it does not throw you out of the atmosphere even though it was terribly annoying and difficult to handle. There is so many to learn from Gothic for modern game designers in my opinion.

These games are just so mindblowing to me. I can't believe how ahead of their time they were

I love maps that aren't one big cheat. I feel like Morrowind's map and fast travel system was a great balance. I could ride the silt striders between the major cities, visit the Mage's Guild to teleport between guild halls, or even take the gondola's between the cantons in Vivec. And whenever I felt like exploring, I could just walk between locations or even wander off the roads to look for something fun.

aaah Gothic, one of the best games I ever played.

I played gothic 1 first time in 2019 and it became my favorite rpg game out of all I ever played, map is too good and immersion is even better "...people always talk..."

Great video. Gothic 1 and 2 are my favorite games of all time. Surely most immersive games.

Active effort in exploring a new world is what makes this activity so rewarding. In Gothic you have to pay attention to the details of the environment and you cannot just stare at a minimap to reach your destination. Paths are learned, either through independent exploration, through descriptions of NPCs or by having an NPC actually show you the way. it's so much more realistic and also adds liveliness and credibility. A mental model of the world appropriated in this way ensures resonance on many levels. All the moments in which you asked yourself whether you have to go right or left to get to this or that place have a lasting impact on the relationship between you and these places. In addition to the map design, the level design in gothic is also awesome. You can write a lot about it, but one point that I find particularly strong is how exploration of the world is limited only by your own experience. Regarding the dangers of the open game world, the game is never patronizing in an abstract way, only in a natural, realistic way. the hunters in front of the Old Camp warn of the forest, the guards at the entrance to the orc area tell you that you have to be insane to continue there. but they don't hinder you. The world is not designed for you as a player, it is not an ego tunnel like in so many games, instead it is a believable place that you can gradually make your own. The motto "always ahead" does not prevail here. Rather, it is important to adhere to very natural rules, such as "don't go into the forest", "don't stray from the path", "always have a torch with you" etc. The NPCs keep reminding you of these. These rules not only tell you what to do, they also play with your fears and challenge your curiosity.

The map(s) in Outward are very similar to this, except there are no markings for the player's whereabouts. It still works!

Thief 1/2 also have great maps exactly because they lack information and force you to explore. Thief 2014 on the other hand just gives you everything. Makes it feel like work.

>see this video >immediately install Gothic Anyone else knows this feel?

I'd argue that you forgot or rather missrespresented one important aspect, although it isn't explicitly part of the map itself. You mentioned the map might seem useless to new players, which for the map itself may be true but for the game is not. If you get sent on a quest you, for the most part anyway, get descriptions of the path to take or npc's who show you around the world. I think the combination of npc dialogue/behaviour and the map is what makes this map so immersive and ingenious. The game is designed in a way where you just don't need a boatload of information on the map.

Another feature related to the map that really stands out to me is that the NPCs often give you instructions to get to certain places using landmarks that seem to completely contradict the roads laid out on the map, thus encouraging you to not depend on the map (which also makes sense if you consider that buying the map in the first place is fairly expensive and you may not even have a map when you try to go to the New Camp or the Old Mine for the first time. Direct shortcuts, however, often lead you through dangerous areas that you will not be able to survive early in the game. This makes the directions given by NPCs extremely valuable because they actually tell you the easiest/most manageable/most survivable way to get to certain places. Once you understand the terrain (and have cleared some wildlife), you will naturally figure out what is the shortest way. Which also often deviates from the roads. For instance, the fastest way to get to the New Camp from the Old Camp is actually walking along the river (or swimming if you're going the other way). But Blooflies and Goblins make this way impassable during the first couple of hours. This is how Gothic allows you to explore more and more as you level up, although large parts of the colony are accessible and reachable immediately after you start a new game.

The Gothic is a masterpiece. It was the first game I really enjoyed to play.

I played gotihc in my childhood and loved exploring the world with the map. At the moment I like to do it as an adult in the real world and use google earth in exactly the same way as the map back then in gothic. You know exactly where you are and you can roughly see what it looks like, but you can only judge what it really looks like when you have explored it on site.

It depends on the scale of the game, the focus and level design. I don't mind learning small hub games by heart but if someone told me I had to explore Skyrim without a map and a compass I would lose it and it's not even that big by some standards. I would agree fast traveling everywhere from arrow to arrow it's game breaking.

Was initially an RTS player, started with dune 2. Gothic was my first RPG. Always liked that map. Even now if ill install it a new, i know everything around like the back of my hand.

i like the map of gothic 1 too but you have to keep in mind that the area is relatively small (thats not a bad thing, everything in the areas is meaningfull) its not because of the map, that you know your way around easily after a while its because the map is very small my last playtrough of gothic is 15 years old and i still would find myself around

The thing about Gothic map is it works so neatly because the world is fairly well designed and extremely small is scope when compared to modern open worlds. I’m currently playing through Witcher 3 for the first time. I disabled the minimap so that I actually look at the game instead of the top left of my screen all the time. Easy solution, right? No. The locations in Witcher are generally too big to be easily memorable, you have no landmarks to orient yourself quickly, there’s a LOT of crossroads (that could benefit greatly from ingame signs pointing out which road leads where), the locations on map aren’t visually distinct and rely on specific markers (for instance, merchant here, quest here, fast travel point etc.). On top, ngl, my spacial awareness is pretty bad. This leads to situations where I a) open the map every 10 seconds (when I hit a crossroad or I’m completely off the road) which completely screws with my (and oh god I hate to use this word) “immersion” or b) get lost and go the exact opposite direction I wanted to My conclusion is that Witcher 3 isn’t build for this type of play, and if you go out of your way to restrict yourself in order to improve your travel experience, you’ll hit similiar roadblocks as I did, and it’s probably impossible to make an easily readable map where a player can navigate relatively with an area of this scale. For examples of maps done right, there are two games that instantly pop in my mind. First of them is Minecraft. Reasons are- map is an actual item that doesn’t put you out of your experience, it’s scope is relatively limited by default, therefore you won’t get lost or overlmeded, fog of war and your location marker makes you want to fill it out completely, encouraging thorough exploration. The second is Outward. Despite the downfalls and jank of the game, I’d say the exploration is done generally right. You’re given a map that’s half cartographically correct, half illustrated points of interest, and a compass. No player location. What makes this actually GOOD in my opinion is that there are almost always one or two landmarks visible in the distance (on the first map, there’s actually a giant purple mountain right in the middle, sticking out like a sore thumb, easing you into the map system without player marker), and with help of compass, you can always deduce where you are approximately. That combined with nicely marked mentionworthy locations that encourage wonder and curiosity (combined with laughably forgetable quests), you are heavily incentivized to just go and find your own adventure. For me an ideal map in open world RPG would be a combination of Outward and Minecraft. Small area(s), hand-drawn and fairly accurate, but with a few landmarks I could always orient myself with, no player marker, compass, not a menu I could open that would take me out of the game, but an actual item my character would open up. If you’ve read through all of this, thank you for your attention. Feel free to respond with your opinion, as I am curious of what other people prefer, and I’d like to broaden my own horizons when it comes to maps and game design.

Personally my favourite type of maps is like the one in DayZ (although I am not a huge fan of the game itself). You have all the details you would expect a self-respecting cartographer to add to the map, down to terrain features like contours and vegetation, but there is no GPS, i.e. you do not have a marker indicating where you are on the map. This completely flips the idea of the traditional game map on its head, and forces you to use the map as it would be used in real life. It is easy to figure out where you need to go, and if there are NPCs in the game, they would be happy to mark the quest objectives on your map, but there are no quest arrows to follow, and you always risk getting lost. You will need to pay attention to the world and learn how to orient yourself using the features of the world. Contrary to games with "dumb maps" like Morrowind, finding where to go is easy, but figuring out how to get there is hard. It truly makes traversing the game world a part of your gameplay, rather than just an interlude between the real game.

Even years after having last played Gothic 1 and 2 I still know the whole map. Just playing Gothic 2 and the valley of the mines is just familiar as if I had been playing Gothic 1 just a few weeks before. I am still hoping vor Gothic 4 and going to start a new Gothic 3 game once I’m finished.

This is exactly the thing I liked about Classic World of Warcraft. Reading and understanding where to go and what to do, as there was no UI indicator. These days whenever I play WoW, my friends just blaze through the quests, without reading them, because UI helps them understanding what to do, in every step of the way, but without knowing why they do it.

This just gave me major nostalgia. I really have to play this game again soon :D And I agree with you about the simplicity of the map adding to the experience. Many devs these days add so many features that are supposed to help the player (but sometimes are just confusing me tbh) while totally forgetting to check if they fit into the game's universe. Gothic was one of the most immersive games I ever played, and you helped me figuring out why, so thanks for this video ^^

Nice video man!!

one thing that flashed me completely in gothic was the appearence of a german band named "in extremo"at the german version. It is one of the most favorite bands of my mum and i instendly shouted to her to come over

Much respect for the developers of Gothic world (map). Realise that in Gothic 1 there are 3 different maps: main map, Old mine and Sleepers temple. Which means that every single building, or cave or tunnel is designed to fit perfectly with any other objects in that same map. There are no doors that you click on and get transported into some house. Art at its finest.

There's one thing, you failed to mention about the map - in different sections of the game, you can acquire (purchase, find or take) other maps - and all of these are similar in design (as in, made by someone in game), but quite clearly from a different point of view, with some minor tweaks. Don't know how to get to the Old Mine and the verbal directions are too vague? Purchase a map TO the Old Mine - it has a section containing the Old Camp and Old Mine cut out and the path marked - a simple map, made with a purpose of leading people into the mine (perfectly fitting in the game). Once you get the quest to find all focus stones, you also get a map of the area in the South, BUT it's from before the barier was created, so some places there haven't been updated, some are now just ruins. The key is in switching between different maps, to find what you sought. Of course, several playthroughs in, I have the maps memorised in my head, but I still acquire all of them, for lore sake :)

I find it wonderful that you are making videos about Gothic. Gothic is one of my favorite video games, because what it does is kind of like video game Realism (the 19th century art movement). Most things in Gothic feel like they could actually exist. The society is shaped by personal connections, I find it very believable that in an actual prison takeover situation, the social situation would end up similar to Gothic. I never saw another video game that portrayed regular dudes so realistically.

Very good video, you nailed it! The best thing about the Gothic map for me was that you start without it. When I ventured forth without it, I felt weak and fragile, anxious to get lost in the dangerous wilderness. Soothing were Diego's words when he said get yourself a map. Another great game-map can be found in Outward, where you don't have your actual location shown on the map, hence you have to actually use it as a MAP and make out where you even are :D

I REALLY like this map system! It makes so much sense to me, with the "realism" of the map. The only addition I would like in a map system would be the ability to make your own notes on the map. Like, if I was using a map (in real life, let's say), I would mark certain things on the map with little notes, or my own personal symbols for reference that would remain on the map for the whole game, (unless you were able to buy a new map that didn't include the personal notes/symbols). I think that addition to this map system would make it, well, perfect (or at least as near to as possible).

great video and explanation

very good review, thanks!

Great video, as always :) looking forward to see more videos about gamedev side of Gothic and your opinions aswell :)

Gothic I + II (Night of the Raven) are some of the most immersive CRPGs ever created. The world building of those titles is excellent. It's dense, interesting, every corner of the world has purpose. Exploration is rewarding instantly.

Ahhh Gothic. One of my favourite games and an important part of my childhood. Good to see that it is still alive in 2020.

The point I loved the most was how nothing changed on the map after discovering the previously useless drawing was of a tower. You had seen that place now and could commit to memory that place and connect it with the simple map. I am going to try to apply the simple map with arrow strategy to when my D&D group is moving through wilderness or to their next town etc. Not sure it will translate, but great video nonetheless.

Gothic 1&2 had one of the best worlds to play and explore. The way that you had to explore things that was not simply from point A to point B like most modern AAA titles but a mixture of up, down , left and right to find that one spot those bushes and so much more...... it always felt so thrilling and rewarding!

I loved that game. You could go anywhere you pleased right from the start, but it was usually not the smartest idea and you knew it without having any warnings on the map, or on screen messages. The successor of the game was much bigger but reached the limit of how big the world can get and still be carefully planned and full of life and little details.

All great points. The one thing I would add is the ability to make your own notes on the map.

The first CRPG I ever played was called Questron. I think it came out in 1984. Questron's map was amazing. First, you didn't have one. You were dropped in the world with no guidance at all, and no idea where anything was. There was a town visible (Geraldtown) from your starting location, but that was it. As soon as you went up a level, merchants would start telling you, "Mesron wants to see you." Mesron was the court wizard in the royal castle, but nothing in the game would tell you where the castle was. You just had to find it. But when you did, there was a map room, and there you could view a map of the known world. That was the only map in the game. It's important, though, that it was a map of the "known" world. Because the map only showed one continent, and the second half of the game took place on a different continent. But even better, the "knowledge" of the world that had informed the map was incorrect. There was one really substantial error on the map, and that error effectively gated access to the other continent, because the map told you main port was on a lake, and thus did not have access to the sea. However, if you tried to cross one particular mountain range you would be stopped by a straight which connected the "lake" to the ocean, and then you could take your ship out and see what was there. You could have done that before, but the game implicitly told you it was impossible, so you probably wouldn't try until later.

I like to revisit this video from time to time.

Very few games have managed to create a true sense of adventure as well as Gothic 1+2. You're thrown into a world you don't know where everybody treats you like a useless idiot (which you are). You have to learn everything, discover every part of the world. Even though the map is pretty small, this design makes it much more livelier than today's Ubisoft style of game worlds with hundreds of interchangeable points of interest.

Neo: So you're telling me I'll be good at using the map? Morpheus: No Neo. What I'm telling you is, when the time comes... You won't have to.

I haven't played Gothic 1 yet, but i played and finished Gothic 2 like 12 years ago and i 200% agree with this analysis!

Outer Wilds is wildly different type of game, but it's the first game that gave me a familiar feeling of mystery, camping, suspense and childhood fun. I recommend trying it if you miss playing Gothic 1 for the first time.

What's amazing about this game is that I did a lot of exploring and thanks to all the memories I made of the locations, when I got the quests to go to them I knew where to go. I used my brain not some special UI to figure it out so that was just more satisfying. Also more satisfying when you find the location.

I like Kenshi's map mechanic where you have to fill in the map bit by bit by finding vendors who have regional maps you can buy, and even then, there are lots of locations missing that only get filled in when you stumble close enough to "see" them.

I'm playing Gothic 2 Archolos now and at the begining, skimping for paper map, I drew one myself, just to remember which gate leads where. There are many roadsigns and NPCs used world directions, so I tried navigate with a sun, but it was so long since I played any gothic, that I forgotten where the clock is. :D It's like I'm a child again. Great feeling.

it kinda reminds me of arma when you turn off all the map markers so you will stop look at the map and then look around to find the various terrain features and figure out where you are exactly

I'm a long time Gothic (1,2,3). Great video, you really put a spotlight on the many peculiar things that make this game so unique. The beginning is usually a painful, slow grind but, man what a satisfaction getting stronger. The last game I played similar to Gothic is Elex. Same creators if I'm not wrong. I'll always choose this kind of game developing over some triple a games that are great but sometimes pretty limited or too "helping"

Graham would be proud

Lots of good takes in here! I did my master's thesis on video game maps and break down how maps are designed to be tools that facilitate gameplay. Empty spots on the map and overall incomplete information is one of the best driving forces behind game exploration imo.

Very interesting video. I actually had the opposite experience with Gothic 3: after I began playing I quickly got the map, but I didn't speak to the guy in the tower near the starting village; as a result I had that rather detailed map that Gothic 3 provides you with, but the map never displayed my location. So it felt as a very real map, too

I loved Gothic 1 and 2. I'm from Australia. They were my favorite game series at the time. I introduced my friends to this series as well, but most of them strugged to get into it.

This is very good analysis

After a while i knew all map! + Im still re-playing G1 and G2 - awesome games!

Very good points, also I would add the fact that there's a delay to open it, which makes it feel like you are actually checking it only when needed, as opposed to instantly switching between the "game" and an outside-of-gameplay interface.

One of the best games ever made. And i've got exactly the same opinion about map and stupidity of modern games/maps

One aspect not mentioned in the video related to MapQuest criticism, is that the game does unlock fast travel of sorts. When the game is sure you visited all the major locations a couple times and grew enough so that travelling between them is no longer challenging it starts handing out teleportation stones. Without them late game would turn into a chore, even with the relatively small map.

Yeah I appreciate maps like this. Also the game requires talking with a lot of NPCs. There are two NPCs at the Old Camp which is kind of like the first city you go to anyway that will guide you to those other camps free. They do this only once though so you have to use your memory on the road to get there. But it's really shown me a lot of help on that. Also another thing to know is that you don't get that full sized map in the beginning, you get a smaller map that shows only the Old Camp and New Camp side but not the Sect Camp. Also you had to negotiate or buy this map to begin with. The game treats the map like an actual item which you can also accidentally drop and be lost in the world. There's a more advanced map you can get but it's more expensive which is the one you're showing. I like how this game doesn't hold your hand but with enough reading from the journal entries being made on the talks with NPCs and if you pay enough attention you can figure out what to do. The map is still generous enough to show where your hero is at though. I know a game that doesn't even show that so you have to make an educated guess where you are on the map but it was drawn to scale at least. The reality is in real life maps like the paper kind they wouldn't even be drawn to scale at least from this time period they wouldn't be. But of course maps back then were so important that they were used for warfare and to have an advantage over the enemy if you knew the layout. Another thing great about the game is you don't need to have the quest in your journal entry to finish some quests. Of course there's also things that only trigger with other NPCs if you talked to other NPCs about it. And another feature is that you don't even have to finish the quest, they might give you 400 ore (like the money in the game) and just run off with it and not complete it. Of course doing this with some quest objectives anger the NPC if you spent a couple of days not bringing what they asked for and attack you when they see you.

Yeah, I do wish more devs would consider making maps as part of a gameplay challenge than what it is now.

That you can even use Texture Packs and DX11 support for bump maps and shaders like wet surfaces during rain is also interesting.

Did you miss the part where the slave orc in the new mine can fill in the blank part of the map?

I like gothics map but in games like gothic i always find that its more immersive when a game lets you write on the map. Old games like ultima underworld let you do this and it really enhances the sense of discovery but it feels like your personally mapping out newly discovered areas. I feel like any good adventurer would probably write down notes and scribbles to help them as they go

And I still remembered where the mine entrance was.

Świetna analiza. Mam nadzieję, że przy remake Gothica wezmą pod uwagę jak dobrze skonstruowali funkcję jaką sprawuje mapa.

Morrowind still is my favourite game but the map... it was brutal! Remember when I was trying to find a cave entrance from quest description for two days. Solved it the easy way by learning how to use developer world building set and find door location by item name I needed in the dungeon. Learned a lot while doing it.

As someone who never gothic'd in my life, I can say I was able to get somewhat accurate on your important location quiz, I figured the old mine was just a bit east of actual- I poked at the death mountain looking place. New camp, I picked the first location just SWW of center. Close, but not too close.

One of my favourite youth games...it was such a big change compared to the random d&d, Elder scrolls, diablo, Neverwinternights games that all were somehow the same... in gothic the first time characters with a daily routine and they actually react to you and the stuff you do, same for the animals, map design and and and....one of my alltime favourites! (incl G2 + Notr

Have always said that Gothic 2's map is the best designed game world I've seen in any game, in terms of challenge for progress, reward for exploration, sensical world-building, and how the world opens up gradually but naturally and always keeps you excited. Great video!

You forgot the most important use of the map : it be used to perform the biggest glitch in this game, my jumping, opening the map mid jump, closing it and jumping again you can jump infinitely high to reach inaccessible locations early and become insanely OP.

before I watch this video, I already give you a thumbs up for the title of the video, I love the Gothic series and I also think it has the best map system,and i love how the notes explain where to go, they describe the entire location, for example in the north there is a cave on the left side of the mountain hidden behind bushes,they solved it great✌️👍

U could say that later in the game map (empty orc lands part) can be added by friendly orc

ps (in regards to map) gg to all who did gothic 1 chromanin quest without help during their first playthrough that quest was so satisifying

The maps in Thief are amazing for the same reasons and maybe more

This is a nice video essay about a feature that some of us didn't even think about but even then it added a dose of realism that helped make Gothic one of the most immersive games ever. I never noticed that the bottom part of the map wasn't drawn. I can't wait to see how the developers of the gothic 1 remake will fuck this feature up, they'll probably create a big 3d out-of-menu map with markers and fast travel that you get at the start of the game.

If anyone wants to play Gothic, just please install the system packs. Its for your better good. Game footage shown here is for true OGs :D

Would love to hear an Analysis of Terraria, Sunless Sea or Conan Exiles. Loved the video keep it up! :)

Gothic set my expectation for what a good open world RPG should be. And all other open world games since then have been complete disappointments.

You'd love the first 2 Thief games :)

thats so true - i remember maps from G1\G2 better than any other game I've played in the past 15years

Great video! If you like a game that feels great to explore with a realistic map you should try Kenshi. It's huge, at times brutally difficult, but fun as fuck. When you start the map seems useless, the areas of the world hard to distinguish, but with time everything just slides into place, you begin to understand everything.

Another thing to point out, in gothic almost nothing is locked behind quests or acts or level, there are some locations which open with quests, but mostly those are just mechanics you can use even at start of the game, at least if you know what to do or hidden behind strong monsters which can be actually killed even in first act. It is just time consuming and hard, but doable, I was able to clear out all monsters in act one before joining any camp, gaining around lvl 20 or so, get ancient ore armor and uriziel and defeat skeletons, orcs and also black troll without scroll..

I missed this game back when it came out as I wasn't able to run it on my PC, so I played whole trilogy it 5 years ago. It's strange that I don't remember it being this rough, especially the graphics.

My first experience with Gothis was when I was just a wee little kid, 10 years old or maybe even younger... Gothic helped me learn how to navigate in games in general! Like the points you made, they made a great job with how simple the map system was. And that you actually had to procure one to be able to see where you are in the first place was a simple yet great idea! I know it may be kinda stupid and pointless, but I just cant help myself and wonder - just how large is the colony in Gothic 1? It's not massive, but if it was a real place, how large would it be? 5 square kilometers, more? I wish someone made a video showing how they arrived with an answer. Like "let's assume that our character runs with the speed of 15 km/h, getting from this place to this place takes 2 minutes, which means that...." etc etc Anyway, great video!

Gothic from 2001...... an RPG where rain particles hit the roof.. and does not go through it like in Morrowind, Oblivion & Skyrim.

Spittin facts right there my man

My first open world. I never felt so immersed in a game ever again. With the exception of the Mass Effect trilogy and The Witcher 3. I still remember how shocked I was after realizing that I could've reached the final boss by simply walking around lol. If I remember well, it's not locked behind an objective. The only obstacles are the high lvl mobs around the area.

I think a good in between would be a gothic style map with the ability for the player to add their own map markers Including flavor text Eg: you run into a new dungeon and are underleveled so you go in, ad a marker for dungeon and type "lvl 20; not cleared"

played this game some months ago, never finished it, but i loved it

the key to that game is aswell, that it has a small openworld, that is packed with interesting places, so you dont need fast travel. whereever you go, you are fast there and there is a lot of things to explore on the way

To me, there is another aspect: In the game, most of the inhabitants of the colony were either criminals or other rather simple people, so it is no suprise that the map is simple as well. And the orc area? Of course it wouldn't be elaborated in the map because it is so dangerous that nobody ever dared to explore it. Also most of the places are quite memorable in and of itself. So at some point during the game, the map was just for general direction. I would go around without even looking at the map because it was so easy to navigate.

check the Thief maps