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The Thing: Remastered

Nightdive Studios · 2024-12-05

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Franchise: The Thing · Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 05, 2024 (Xbox One), Dec 05, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Dec 05, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Dec 05, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 05, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Dec 05, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

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

11
playing now
89%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$16.49
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

The Thing is a 2002 squad-based third-person shooter survival horror video game developed by Computer Artworks and co-published by Vivendi Universal Games and Konami for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. Versions for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance were also planned, but were both cancelled early in development.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–63k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,406 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99-50%
GOG$16.49-45%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$16.49-45%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $16.49 at GOG (2026-06-17) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 40 of 72 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Featured in Valve's Top Releases of December 2024 (#2)

Players online

2102026-08-12 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 15 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 21 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 10 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 16 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 9 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 14 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 17 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$14.992024-12-052026-08-302024-12-05 — best price $29.992025-01-23 — best price $23.992025-02-13 — best price $23.992025-03-06 — best price $23.992025-03-19 — best price $23.992025-03-30 — best price $29.992025-04-25 — best price $29.992025-05-09 — best price $22.492025-05-28 — best price $29.992025-08-04 — best price $20.992025-08-14 — best price $20.992025-09-11 — best price $29.992025-09-26 — best price $29.992025-10-07 — best price $20.992025-10-16 — best price $20.992025-10-28 — best price $20.992025-11-13 — best price $19.492025-11-24 — best price $29.992025-12-03 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $19.492026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-01-31 — best price $19.492026-02-12 — best price $19.492026-02-20 — best price $29.992026-03-12 — best price $19.492026-04-03 — best price $29.992026-04-24 — best price $29.992026-05-28 — best price $29.992026-06-04 — best price $17.992026-06-15 — best price $29.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-07-20 — best price $29.992026-08-13 — best price $16.492026-08-25 — best price $16.492026-08-29 — best price $16.492026-08-30 — best price $16.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4031352026-05-29 — 176 pageviews2026-06-01 — 226 pageviews2026-06-04 — 253 pageviews2026-06-07 — 216 pageviews2026-06-10 — 246 pageviews2026-06-13 — 189 pageviews2026-06-16 — 149 pageviews2026-06-19 — 164 pageviews2026-06-22 — 161 pageviews2026-06-25 — 178 pageviews2026-06-28 — 237 pageviews2026-07-01 — 171 pageviews2026-07-04 — 154 pageviews2026-07-07 — 148 pageviews2026-07-10 — 168 pageviews2026-07-13 — 205 pageviews2026-07-16 — 213 pageviews2026-07-19 — 217 pageviews2026-07-22 — 208 pageviews2026-07-25 — 156 pageviews2026-07-28 — 185 pageviews2026-07-31 — 135 pageviews2026-08-03 — 189 pageviews2026-08-06 — 163 pageviews2026-08-09 — 173 pageviews2026-08-12 — 186 pageviews2026-08-15 — 196 pageviews2026-08-18 — 219 pageviews2026-08-21 — 256 pageviews2026-08-24 — 236 pageviews2026-08-26 — 208 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
83.1%
earned "Out of This World"
40.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,15612%11
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)80511%11
Switch (Nintendo)460%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DBloodMovieActionAliensCombatHorrorSci-fiShooterThriller

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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