Ares Games | The Thing: The Board Game | Horror Board Game | Ages 13+ | 1-8 Players | 60+ Minutes Playing Time

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You will relive John Carpenter's sci-fi cult classic in a race to discover who among the team has been infected by this deadly lifeform. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.

It is a game that mixes different mechanics to create an experience that is as faithful as possible to that of the original film. In the final third section when you defeat the Thing, then will move onto the final escape attempt on the helicopter. Based on the iconic 1980s horror movie by John Carpenter, The Thing: The Boardgame is a semi co-operative hidden role game for up to 8 players.Working together to keep the heat and the lights on, while trying to figure out the motivations of any suspicious characters is one of the highlights of this game. First announced in 2018, The Thing: The Board Game is an upcoming game that sees four to eight players attempting to survive on a desolate outpost in the middle of a frozen tundra. We had to put more thought into where we were going and we had to consider where we thought the revealed alien player was. For example the contagion checks, while being a well designed way of players secretly sharing information on who is who, can become tiresome especially if both players are fully human.

The Thing: The Board Game is being published by Pendragon Game Studio, the company behind the 2016 hidden movement game Last Friday, inspired by the genre of slasher films made popular during the 1980s. The biggest factor that contributes to this is that this game generates a real sense of paranoia and distrust with everyone around you. When players move around to take actions, they may be attacked by the revealed alien if they go to the same space. Other games lack actions for revealed evil players, but The Thing creates a new set of actions for revealed players.The Thing is a game for 1-8 players that mixes different mechanisms to create an experience that is as faithful as possible to that of the original film. People who play these games will almost always compare a game against BSG as it is the “gold standard” of these games. This is the main rule difference between player counts, but the overall feeling with more players is very different. If a player has enough suspicion placed upon them, they will be forced to reveal which action card they actually intend to play that round.