The idea of drawing tokens from a bag to see if a dog infected you is scary but exciting as your role can suddenly switch. More Blood sample cards are dealt out to all players as you open your crew up to a wider area of the base.

The moments when one player is convinced that another person is playing as a human, and they defend them to the hilt, only to then realise they were wrong, can be hilarious, tense and highly rewarding. Working together to keep the heat and the lights on, while trying to figure out the motivations of any suspicious characters is one of the highlights of this game. This a wonderful system and such a simple way to allow non human players to wreak havoc across the base without anyone ever knowing what role card they have. The Thing – The Boardgame is an intense game experience for 1-8 players based on the 1982 cult movie, mixing different mechanics to create an experience faithful to the mood of the original film.The only way you can win as the players is to last long enough to escape on the helicopter without any imitation joining you by clearing the rooms, fighting The Thing, and picking your crews wisely.

Co-designing the game are Giuseppe Cicero and Andrea Crespi, co-creator of Potion Explosion and survival horror game Alone. The captain will then shuffle them all together without looking at them, before revealing what has been contributed to the mission. Full disclosure: The Thing (1982) is my favorite horror movie, and I realize that I get a lot more out of this theme than other people. In the final third section when you defeat the Thing, then will move onto the final escape attempt on the helicopter. In each of our games someone has died to the revealed alien, and each player had a…negative reaction to this happening to them.This means the leader can save or sink the ship that is this game, and leads me to wonder about the sheer level of power they have during play.

It is a "hidden role" game, in which one player is initially the Thing and the others players are humans. The survivors win the horror game if they either successfully destroy the alien or escape the outpost with at least some of them left alive. But the whole time, some players, randomly assigned to be “The Thing” as Imitations will be trying to sabotage your every move.You will be debating and at times, arguing over what to do as the situation grows more intense and the pressure rises. Though the leader, weapons, and the revealed alien player were the mechanics our group placed at the center of our debates, there are still a lot of other small mechanics running around the game too. If a character is alone with a dog in a room they draw from an infected bag and have a small chance of being secretly infected.