Thankfully, there’s a long-standing genre of board games they can pull from that’s engineered to encourage gameplay that mimics what you see in the 1982 film: the hidden traitor game.
Official adaptations of the film also exist, and the 2017 board game The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31is one of the most successful at creating the same tension as the John Carpenter classic.īoard game adaptations aren’t always the easiest to pull off, as they can’t rely on the same linear storytelling as something like a video game, but Infection at Outpost 31 pulls from existing board game tropes and wraps it in the movie’s signature brand of tension and body horror. Several movies, TV shows, comics and video games have tried to imitate both its horrifying creature design and its overwhelming atmosphere of paranoia. The Thing, which celebrates its 40 year anniversary this week, was such an influential movie whose effect can be seen across all forms of media.
