Ares Games | The Thing: The Board Game | Horror Board Game | Ages 13+ | 1-8 Players | 60+ Minutes Playing Time

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Players can give clues as to their suitability to be picked for each mission based on what cards they have, or you can allow players can say whatever they want, truth or otherwise. Bad weather means more fuel is consumed and the boiler room can break, meaning the humans can freeze to death. Play as one of twelve characters as you lead a series of investigations through the facility, using supplies and equipment to clear the building. Watching everyone squabble and argue over why that player moved to a location or why they did something the last turn.

If the result of the dice roll meets the requirement for the mission card, then the humans pass the mission and can reveal the chip that was in this room. Anyone who picked up a blood test kit can check to see if someone is an alien, what’s great here though is you can only test someone who has the highest suspicion marker, meaning that an alien player who can can blend in more has a higher chance of success. BSG places the admiral and president in charge of an aspect of the game or those players will make key decisions when they come up. Co-designing the game are Giuseppe Cicero and Andrea Crespi, co-creator of Potion Explosion and survival horror game Alone.This is the main rule difference between player counts, but the overall feeling with more players is very different.

The Thing is a semi co-operative game and this means that despite working together, some of you may have alternate agendas. It is a "hidden role" game, in which one player is initially the Thing and the others players are humans. In the final third section when you defeat the Thing, then will move onto the final escape attempt on the helicopter. The rulebook does try to cover everything, but, as always, players will have more questions than the rulebook can answer. Unlike most games, the harder this game is to win, the better it is as an experience for those round the table.Or if one of the players acting as The Thing is chosen to join the captain on the Helicopter in the final escape then the players playing as Imitations will win, and the other players all lose.

The flamethrower is very powerful, though this likely doesn’t come as a shock to anyone familiar with the movie.We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. The purpose of the Thing is to infect others, to prevent the survivors from escaping from the base (which can happen in three different ways), or to try to escape with them by behaving as a human. 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.