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The Thing: Remastered
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 83% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 1,446
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (16%); after 7h it's 1 in 17 (6%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 80% of games we track.
- 83% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,462 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 7.1h for positive, 4.5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (82.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (11)
- Out of This World Find the UFO. 100%
- Ghost From the Past Play the Tape. 90%
- Let There Be Light Restore power at Norwegian camp. 86%
- Perfect Trust Achieve 100% trust with all team members in a single level. 72%
- Bad Blood Administer a Thing test. 70%
- Colin's Fate Find the dead radio operator. 49%
- A Pale Imitation Defeat the Rupture Boss. 48%
- Remain Calm Prevent any NPC from reaching maximum fear level in a playthrough. 31%
- A Thing of the Past Kill the final boss. 31%
- Audiophile Find all tape recording save points. 11%
- Conspiracy Theorist Find all hidden Gen-Inc. documents. 6.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.