The Thing: The Boardgame - Norwegian Outpost

This expansion for The Thing: The Boardgame lets you experience the events that took place at Thule Station, the Norwegian resort where it all began! As with the 1982 version, the expansion allows you to relive the most tense moments of the story, transporting you to the movie! The core element of the game is based on the emulation properties of the Thing, which will hide its identity under a cloak of false humanity, but with substantial differences in the way they interact with the game and with your feelings.

Here are the key points of the expansion: A new board, new characters, and new materials. A new endgame condition represented by the dog running away from you and arriving at Outpost 31. If this happens, you will be able to play your next game of the 1982 version with a leader dog (a dog that behaves differently throughout the game). A new element in the game: teeth! The crew of the Thule Station discover that the Alien cannot assimilate and duplicate metal parts, so dental fillings become a way to tell if a person is human, but not if they are alien. The wire and flamethrower test disappears and torches are added with which it will be possible to test and look at other characters' teeth, checking for the presence or absence of fillings.

A new location is available for the Thing: the UFO! It represents the last hope of escape for the Thing, as in the film. The final confrontation with the remaining humans will take place here. Of course, this is only one option, and just like the dog escape mentioned above, it won't necessarily happen! It all depends on how you behave, as you can win or lose in many ways!

In the 2011 film, as soon as they find out what is going on, people's behaviour becomes more selfish, trying in every way to save their own lives. So we decided to try to include the possibility of a solitary escape, an element that will raise the level of suspicion to the maximum! It also brings new mechanics, such as the ability to deliberately sabotage vehicles, even if you are human. The expansion will contain: a new board, new characters, new cards and new tokens.

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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