The Thing: Remastered
Fair · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $16.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $2.75/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 45% off today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($19.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 45% ($16.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 TI (2GB) or AMD HD 7750 (1GB) or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $16.49. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 16 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $16.49 at 45 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 50 at list, 60 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 29 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Space™ 2 ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Space ($59.99, scores 53).
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 424 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 236 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% start to 26% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 17:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Exactly the same as the original PS2 version just with slightly better facial expressions. It runs very smoothly. I didn't notice how cheesy the lines are in this game when I was a kid because I was mostly watching my dad play this game. I had fun playing this game again with my dad and marveling at how far gaming has come since then.
Game from my childhood remastered and with some nice QoL to prevent softlocking and needing to constantly reload because something happened out of sequence.
Such a classic growing up. This remaster serves it purpose well. For anyone who is a fan of "The Thing" this ones definitely worth picking up.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Thing: Remastered scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2958970/the-thing-remasteredReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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