The Thing: The Boardgame is a game that mixes different mechanics to create an experience as faithful as possible to the original film. It is a "hidden role" game, in which one player is initially the Thing and the other players are humans. The goal of the Thing is to infect the others, prevent the survivors from escaping the base (which can happen in three different ways), or try to escape with them by acting like a human. In addition to these elements, players must also manage Outpost 31. On the map are the same rooms seen in the film, and each of these rooms allows players to perform a different action.
The human players must feed themselves and keep the boiler and generator running to avoid being left in the cold and dark. The Thing will try to sabotage these areas to make life difficult for humans... or not, trying to camouflage itself among humans and infect them when the perfect opportunity presents itself. The goal of the game designers was to bring the same personal emotions and paranoia that the film's protagonists experienced to the gaming table.
The Thing: The Boardgame funded on the Kickstarter platform
The Thing: The Boardgame was funded on the Crowdfunding Kickstarter (See the campaign) platform on the Oct 14, 2020, the campaign lasted 22 days. 5,199 people helped funded the game, whose the amount requested was €42,000.00. Thanks to these 5,199 people the game could be funded up to €413,580.00, ~984.71%.
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Contents of the box : 1 base board, 1 weather die, 34 fuel tokens, 12 flamethrower refill tokens, 16 food tokens, 4 dog tokens, 1 rescue helicopter token, 1 double-sided weather table for 1-6 and 7-8 players, 1 frost tile, 1 frost marker, 1 lab bag, 1 contagion bag, 1 leader sheet, 2 leader tokens, 16 human contagion tokens, 8 alien contagion tokens, 8 suspicion discs, 8 character sheets, 8 character pedestals, 8 plastic pedestals, 4 Alien pedestals, 4 clear plastic pedestals, 16 role cards, 51 action cards, 11 location cards, 12 weapon cards, 15 item cards, 40 lab tokens, 9 canine infection tokens, 20 damage counters, 1 power failure token, 6 fire tokens, 8 Alien strength tokens, 3 action dice, 8 role cards, 1 rule book.
