Image credit: Warner Bros. / Square Enix Redfall and Deathloop developer Arkane almost worked on Thief 4 and a Blade Runner game before it made the first Dishonored . That's according to former Arkane co-directors Raphael Colantonio and Harvey Smith themselves, who sat down together earlier this week to talk about their time at the studio, the games they made, and also the games they nearly made. Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow - Official Launch Trailer. Watch on YouTube As spotted by Knoebel and shared on BlueSky , Colantonio spoke of a time when Bethesda approached the studio to consider adding to the Thief franchise. "Before we did Dishonored, we were supposed to either do Thief or Blade Runner. Bethesda approached us with the proposition, 'Hey, we have the Thief franchise, and we know the people to make that game, and it's you'," Colantonio said. "It's our game." "Which is basically like coming to two cats and saying, 'We have a big bag of catnip here on the one side.…