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The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing

The Thing: Remastered is a action, survival horror and sci-fi game developed by Nightdive Studios and Computer Artworks and published by Nightdive Studios.
Released on December 05th 2024 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 911 reviews of which 836 were positive and 75 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified The Thing: Remastered into these genres:

Action Survival Horror Sci-fi Shooter Third Person Third-Person Shooter Horror 3D Aliens Adventure Thriller Blood Combat Singleplayer Movie Choices Matter PvE Psychological Survival FPS

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64-Bit Required)
Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 3.4GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @ 3.5GHz or better
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 TI (2GB) or AMD HD 7750 (1GB) or better
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 5 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card or onboard sound

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Nov. 2025

The Thing is such a classic literally one of my fav games of all time, the first time I saw it I wondered into a game shop back in 2004, I must have been about 7 years old. I remember my dad grabbing the game off the shelf in the store and asking me hey tony? showing me The Thing on Xbox Original. I was just like oh wow that game looks awesome, please dad, please XD, he said to me, ok tomorrow we will go back and I will buy you the game. The next day I jumped out of bed and begged my dad to get me it, later that day he took me to the game shop and bought it for me. I still own the original copy of it even today. Seriously though I do think its totally awesome and in my opinion a phenomenal game, when I think of all my fav games, the thing is always up there as one of my top 5 every time, everything about it is class, the atmosphere, the gameplay, the story, the characters, the fear, the thing monsters, the 2000s aesthetic and the soundtrack. I love this game its one of the very best games I ever played, in fact my words don't really give it any sort of justice, I cant really describe or tell, but it is certainly a classic I cant forget. The full price of £24.99, is expensive but honestly its worth it, its a full on classic remaster and Night Dive Studios done an excellent job. I also love both the movies with Kurt Russell from the 1980s and the 2011 prequel with Mary Elizabeth. I consider this game a must have, one of the best games ever made. 100/100 that is my score :)

Aug. 2025

It's crazy, I remember when this one came out, never thought I'd be playing it again. Remember the ads on magazines and how they talked about it's very interesting and ambitious "trust system" and such. It was also the game that lead me straight to the movie, or at the very least to know of its existence. Ended up buying the DVD like a year later I think; I could never finish the game tho cause of a bug that made it crash after the final boss fight, so well, I finished it like 20 years later I guess. Now, my first impression all that time ago, which really hasn't changed tho, was that it wasn't really that much of anything, underwhelming even. The gameplay is run of the mill survival horror from it's time but the actual interesting thing about it was it's mechanics. You would have to earn the trust of the NPCs to get them to follow orders, and you would have to test them to see if they are infected, awesome right? Now, maybe you weren't there back at the time, but to me it just didn't deliver on its promises. mean, it sounded way better from what it ended up being. Sure, it was a damn interesting idea, but that's as far as it went. Sometimes the AI doesn't respond the way it's meant to respond and there was, and I'm saying "was" because it is supposedly fixed but i haven't noticed it, a bug that caused the blood test to be useless; basically you would test some dude, the test would show negative and then he would turn nonetheless, which you know kinda ruins it... Now the other thing about The Thing is it's story. This is supposed to be the only canon continuation from the original movie, as per said by non other than Carpenter himself, and I can accept that now, after all this time. The Thing happens to be one of my favourites, if not MY favourite movie of all time, so getting to accept this story as a proper sequel it's a little bit hard for me, because it ain't really that much of anything. The plot is basic, both for a sequel as well for a movie based videogame, which was kind of the style at the time, so I didn't think much of it back then nor do I think much of it now, but I do appreciate the nods, even if it ruins the ambigous ending from the film. The game is also pretty short (as it usually was for this type of games) clocking at about 6 hours if you power through it, and fairly easy. I mean very easy, making it a nice start point to get into survival horror, just like I did all those years ago. Lets just say you won't EVER run out of ammo, the game is very generous with it's items. Other than that this is an amazing remaster. Textures look substantialy better, lightning looks gorgeous and the sheer fact that we can play this forgotten game back again is a wonder and opens so many doors on what can be remastered from the PS2 era again, now let's keep in mind that Nightdive is owned by Atari, who also published this one originally, so I don't know how much of this remaster was their own initiave but it's nice to think that others will come eventually. The Thing is not the best movie based game ever, but it might scratch some itch. It was nothing special back then, still ain't nothing special nowadays. 3/5

March 2025

This isn't the original game, it's some sort of remaster! It's just imitating the original game, it isn't real!

March 2025

Read the book, watched the prequels, and I played this back when I was 14 in 2003. This is a wonderful game, full of great gameplay & tension.

Jan. 2025

I mean I would rather this port exist than not exist. However, I would have preferred a full remake. There were some bugs but they were fixed quite quickly, good job devs!

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The Thing: Remastered is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

The Thing: Remastered is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.

The Thing: Remastered received 836 positive votes out of a total of 911 achieving a rating of 8.64.

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The Thing: Remastered was developed by Nightdive Studios and Computer Artworks and published by Nightdive Studios.

The Thing: Remastered is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Thing: Remastered is not playable on MacOS.

The Thing: Remastered is not playable on Linux.

The Thing: Remastered is a single-player game.

The Thing: Remastered does not currently offer any DLC.

The Thing: Remastered does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Thing: Remastered does not support Steam Remote Play.

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