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The Thing: Remastered
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“It's a fun game, the remaster is pretty good, and the controls and graphics are ok. As for the game itself, the gameplay is fairly basic but still features some original mechanics, particularly the team and stress systems. The story, on the other hand, is pretty messy, there are…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay (It is very basic but it was good for when it first came out.) ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“I wanted to love this, but Nightdive managed to break the experience by keeping the worst parts of the original and removing the only safety nets. Here just three reasons to don't buy it, avoiding a waste of our precious time. One - The Infamous Fisk Bug is still here: Just like…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:31 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Patch 1.1 is available now!
General: - Fixed the Conspiracy Theorist achievement. Old saved games are retroactively fixed! - Updated Colins Fate achievement description. - Fixed a softlock where Stolls would stop running to the
THE THING: REMASTERED LAUNCH DAY STREAM!
During the PC Gaming Show on December 5, we shared a brand new trailer for The Thing: Remastered along with the exciting news that the game is available TODAY for Xbox One, Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Ninte
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action |
| Player tags | Action · Survival Horror · Sci-fi · Shooter · Third Person · Third-Person Shooter · Horror · 3D · Aliens · Adventure · Thriller · Blood (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 11 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.nightdivestudios.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64-Bit Required) Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 3.4GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @ 3.5GHz or better Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 TI (2GB) or AMD HD 7750 (1GB) or better DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card or onboard sound