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Is The Thing: Remastered worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Survival-horror fans who want squad cooperation mechanics
- Third-person shooter players interested in Antarctic science-fiction horror
- Players who want objectives with multiple possible routes
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a simple horror game without trust and fear affecting team cooperation
- Players who prefer combat against ordinary human opponents rather than shape-shifting alien creatures
- Players looking for a game without modern visual upgrades such as 4K resolution or frame rates up to 144 FPS
Our take on The Thing: Remastered
The store page gives prominent attention to display upgrades such as 4K resolution and frame rates up to 144 FPS. The main experience is still a 20-level horror shooter centered on team cooperation, uncertainty about human identities, and alien encounters.
What is The Thing: Remastered?
Play as Cpt J.
F. Blake, leader of a U. S. Special Forces rescue team investigating deaths at Antarctica’s Outpost 31. The game combines third-person shooting with survival horror across 20 levels featuring head-spiders, walkers, and large tentacled creatures. A shape-shifting alien can take the form of people it kills, while team members’ trust and fear affect whether they cooperate. Multiple routes can be used to address problems and complete objectives. Weapons include machine guns, explosives, and flamethrowers. This remaster adds updated lighting, shadows, models, textures, environments, antialiasing, per-pixel lighting, 4K resolution, frame rates up to 144 FPS, new achievements, and quality-of-life gameplay changes.
How The Thing: Remastered plays
- 01Trust and fear system
- Team members’ psychological states affect whether they cooperate with Blake.
- 02Multiple objective routes
- Problems and goals can be approached through more than one path.
- 03Updated visual effects
- The remaster adds lighting, shadows, models, textures, environments, antialiasing, and per-pixel lighting changes.
- 04Heavy weapons selection
- Available weapons include machine guns, explosives, and flamethrowers.
- 05Twenty-level structure
- The game includes 20 levels with several types of alien creature.
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The Thing: Remastered: platforms & release
Is The Thing: Remastered worth it?
It is worth it if: survival-horror fans who want squad cooperation mechanics. Skip it if: players seeking a simple horror game without trust and fear affecting team cooperation.
Where can I download The Thing: Remastered?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Thing: Remastered's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Thing: Remastered on?
Windows only.
