The Thing – The Boardgame is a tense, cinematic experience for 1-8 players based on the eponymous cult film directed in 1982 by the master of movie-making John Carpenter. The game focuses on the emulation and assimilation properties of the Alien, hiding its identity under a veil of fake humanity.

The Alien’s true objective is to escape from the base, choosing to hide himself collaborating with humans in order to escape along with them, or revealing his true nature, playing as a monster to assimilate all the team members. On the opposite, the humans must try to survive, maintaining the outpost 31, choosing the best way to escape between the helicopter, the snow cat or the rescue team but, more important, to test the team member to reveal the Alien.

The road to victory is truly hard, but not impossible. Be careful though! The paranoia of not knowing who you REALLY have on your side may cloud your decisions!

Contents:

1 Base Board
1 Leader Sheet
1 Double Sided Weather Table Tiles
1 Freezing Tile and 1 Freezing Cube
1 Weather Dice
34 Fuel Tank
16 Food Cubes
12 Flamethrower Reload Cube
8 Suspicion Disks
1 Leader Token
51 Action Cards
8 Character Sheet
16 Role Cards
15 Item Cards
11 Location Cards
12 Weapon Cards
40 Lab Tokens
20 Damage Counters
1 Power Failure Token
8 Fire Tokens
14 Alien Strength Tokens
1 Rescue Helicopter
9 Dog Infection Tokens
24 Human Contagion Tokens
4 Dogs
1 Laboratory Bag
1 Contagion Bag
12 Character Standees