Having been producing news, features, previews and opinion pieces for Dicebreaker for the past three years, Alex has had plenty of opportunity to indulge in her love of meaty strategy board games and gothic RPGS. 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.

First announced in 2018, The Thing: The Board Game is an upcoming game that sees four to eight players attempting to survive on a desolate outpost in the middle of a frozen tundra. I found that getting bad luck on the weather dice in the early game can make the game harsh especially for newer playes. It’s up to all the other players to root out which of them is acting falsely and destroy the alien player. or not, trying to camouflage itself among the humans and infect them when the perfect opportunity presents itself. The game does make it difficult to be the Leader for more than one round, but depending on where the token has landed you may not want to spend your whole turn to become the Leader for the next round.If players believe a member of the group is acting strangely, they can make accusations in the leisure room to increase their level of suspicion. However, a player can lie about what action cards they’re actually playing - which will be revealed whenever the current game’s leader goes to flip the cards in the action deck.

When it comes to adapting the movie The Thing (1982) or the short story that inspired it, Who Goes There? At the beginning of a round the Leader will roll a weather die and this will determine how much fuel the base consumes that round. As I mentioned at the start of my review this is one of best thematic horror game experiences and a well crafted emulation of the themes of the movie. Flush out the alien organism hiding among you or assimilate and destroy in The Thing: The Board Game, the latest tabletop game based on the cult horror film, now live on Kickstarter. 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.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.