The Thing: Remastered
Set after the events of the 1982 John Carpenter movie, The Thing: Remastered is a squad based 3rd person shooter, where each member of your team is equipped with a range of weapons and items to help you in…
The Thing: Remastered is an adventure developed by Computer Artworks, released 5 December 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What The Thing: Remastered is
The Thing: Remastered is an adventure game developed by Computer Artworks and released in 2024. It was published by Nightdive Studios. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on KEX.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set after the events of the 1982 John Carpenter movie, The Thing: Remastered is a squad based 3rd person shooter, where each member of your team is equipped with a range of weapons and items to help you in your quest to destroy The Thing.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 11 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Thing series
The Thing: Remastered is the fourth of 4 entries we hold in the The Thing series. It arrived a year after Pinball M: The Thing Pinball. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 78 is 3 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Pinball FX Midnight at 96.
How it was received
The Thing: Remastered holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3570 @ 3.4GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @ 3.5GHz or better, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 TI (2GB) or AMD HD 7750 (1GB) or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Thing: Remastered launched on 5 December 2024, within three weeks of Delta Force, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Marvel Rivals and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Delta Force, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Marvel Rivals, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Thing: Remastered yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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