Pendragon Game Studio launched The Thing: The Boardgame & The Cardgame on Gamefound on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, and the campaign passed its EUR 40,000 goal in 21 minutes 30 seconds. As of November 10, 2026, 12:40 PM ET, it had raised EUR 117,498 from 811 backers, with pledges starting at EUR 65 and estimated delivery in September 2027.
The campaign brings back the official board game of John Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing and adds a new card game and a new expansion in the same project. It is one of the biggest launches on our upcoming Kickstarter and Gamefound board games tracker this week, landing on the same platform where Arkham Horror Remastered just closed its Endgame run.
| Name | The Thing: The Boardgame & The Cardgame |
| Publisher | Pendragon Game Studio |
| Launch | Tuesday, November 10, 2026 |
| Raised | EUR 117,498 from 811 backers as of November 10, 2026, 12:40 PM ET |
| Goal | EUR 40,000, reached in 21 minutes 30 seconds |
| Pledges | EUR 65 to EUR 219 |
| Platform | Gamefound |
| Link | The Thing: The Boardgame & The Cardgame on Gamefound |
How does The Thing board game play?
One player is the Alien, and everyone else plays the humans of Outpost 31. The board game is for 1 to 8 players ages 13 and up: the humans keep the base running, test team members to expose the infected, and work out how to escape, while the Alien hides under a fake human identity, either escaping alongside the humans or revealing itself to assimilate the whole team. Pendragon sums up the tension in one line on the campaign page: the real enemy is paranoia.
What is new in this Gamefound campaign?
The headline additions are The Thing: The Cardgame and the Norwegian Outpost expansion. The Cardgame is a portable, card driven version for 4 to 10 players that runs 40 to 60 minutes with the same hidden Alien setup. Norwegian Outpost takes players to the abandoned Norwegian base the Outpost 31 team finds at the start of the film, with new characters, new Alien forms and new dangers. The campaign also adds Human Miniatures Set 2, Alien and Norwegian miniatures sets, an updated rulebook, playmats and an acrylic token set, and several of those items are Gamefound Exclusives that Pendragon says will only appear later in limited quantities through its own store or at conventions.
How much do the pledges cost?
| Pledge | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Boardgame, Gameplay | EUR 69 | The board game, Norwegian Outpost expansion and the Emergency Supplies exclusive |
| All-New Things | EUR 65 | The Cardgame, Norwegian Outpost playmat, acrylic token set and updated rulebook, aimed at returning backers |
| Boardgame, Deluxe | EUR 189 | The board game, expansion, both human miniatures sets, Alien and Norwegian miniatures sets, both playmats, weather die, chip set, Emergency Supplies and acrylic tokens |
| EveryThing, All-in | EUR 219 | Everything in Deluxe plus the Leader Chip and The Thing: The Cardgame |
Prices exclude VAT and shipping, and every tier lists estimated delivery in September 2027. Backers can also spread a pledge over five Stretch Pay installments, a change Pendragon announced in its launch day update after the campaign funded. Anyone who follows the project before it ends also receives the Leader Chip as a follower gift.
When does the campaign end?
The campaign page showed 20 days left as of November 10, 2026, 12:40 PM ET, and Pendragon has not printed a calendar end date on the page. That long runway matters for a licensed horror game with a EUR 219 all-in tier: it gives the project time to build toward the kind of totals in our latest Gamefound Top 10, and we will update this post as the total moves instead of posting separate milestone stories.
Source: The Thing: The Boardgame & The Cardgame on Gamefound
Image credit: Pendragon Game Studio
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