The Thing: Remastered

**"Aw man, we're gonna die here! It's ok, I'm ok! Aw man, we're gonna die here! It's ok, I'm ok!** I love you The Thing: Remastered, my beautiful mediocre game that I have a soft spot for. I don't have any prior experience or knowledge about this game so I don't have nostalgia for it. The only rose-tinted glasses I have for it is my love for the thing franchise itself. The lore is nonsensical and lackluster, the voice acting is absolutely ass, the trust and fear system are an absolute joke, and everything about this game screams "corny movie tie-in game." If you ask me about the lore I learned through this game, I wouldn't be able to tell you. It's a convoluted nonsensical mess. But I'm so madly fixated on this franchise, that I spent $3k and over a year of my life building a gaming pc just to play it, and despite all the crap I can give this game, I freaking LOVE it. It's a mid game, but it's MY mid game. I might play it again just to get the singular achievement I missed. I hate it. I love it. I don't recommend it. Please play this game.

A good remaster of a game based on a cult filmThe Thing: Remastered serves as a sequel to the original movie: special forces land in Antarctica at that same location. The fan service is there - MacReady’s recording, UFO, the trust mechanic with NPCs and the blood test are great. But the remaster doesn’t fix the clunkiness or the shooter gameplay that feels stretched thin near the finale. Visually, the remaster looks decent. On the technical side, I ran into a nasty bug: the lighting broke and the game became pitch-black in areas where electricity had already been restored and the lights should be on. Restarting the whole game fixed it, so it seems to be one of those bugs that show up if you play for a long time without exiting. With Steam Input enabled, I also had controller glitches in the menus. The fix is simple: in the game’s properties in Steam, go to the Controller tab and set Disable Steam Input. The main gameplay improvement in the remaster is that there are no forced infection scripts for your companions like in the original. Yes, some characters are infected by the story, but NPCs can become infected from enemy damage, so it’s quite possible to keep many of them human. Unfortunately, this exposes another sore spot: in story moments, the protagonist can simply abandon his companions without explanation when moving to new locations. At times it’s almost comical - main character rides off alone in an elevator, leaving everyone you’ve been running with to die. In moments like that, I really wish the remaster developers had added some cutscenes to smooth over such rough edges. Overall, the game captures the atmosphere of The Thing quite well in the first few hours, but the further you go, the more it turns into a samey shooter. Even so, with no other game in the franchise, fans of the film should give it a play.

9/20/26 3:58 AM this is one of the most boring and confusing messes of a game i have ever played. and i honestly don't even know how to explain it. i think it's a well made mess that does it's best to be it's own thing but everything feels so dated and old. this game should have gotten a full remake with fully updated gameplay but instead we got this. it has some good ideas and mechanics but not much else. i feel like only die hard THING fans would enjoy this.