The Thing: Remastered - Achievement Guide / Overview

A guide to the few missable achievements in The Thing Remastered including a short overview of each level.

Unmissable Achievements

All of the following achievements are part of the story and can't be missed:

Out of This World

Find the UFO (Level 1).

Let There Be Light

Restore power at Norwegian camp (Level 2a).

Bad Blood

Administer a Thing test (Level 2b).

A Pale Imitation

Defeat the Rupture Boss (Level 4b).

A Thing of the Past

Kill the final boss (level 10).

Missable Achievements

Ghost From the Past

Play the Tape (Level 1).

During the very first level you will descend into a snow pit filled with rubble. The audio recorder is hidden in the remains of a collapsed hut to the right.

Perfect Trust

Achieve 100% trust with all team members in a single level (any level).

Killing Things in view of squad members, healing them, self-administering blood tests and handing out weapons and ammo increases trust.

Very easily done in the first level. You start with a full squad, and you will also find an additional pistol and ammo boxes for pistol and SMG ammo during the mission. Give the pistol to Weldon (the only suqad member without a weapon) and give every squad member ammo until they reach 100% trust in you.

Colin's Fate

Find dead Norwegian (Level 2a).

In the same room where you encounter your squad engineer Carter. There is a frozen corpse sitting on a chair in the middle of the room. Approach it closely to trigger a small cutscene and the achievement.

Audiophile

Find all tape recording save points.

There are a total of 25 save points in the game that you have to find and use (see level sections).

Conspiracy Theorist

Find all hidden Gen-Inc. documents.

This achievement seems to be bugged and unfortunately there is no legit way to unlock it currently. I've found and listed 8 documents and 24 terminals in the game. If you have found additional documents or managed to unlock this achievement, please let me know.

Remain Calm

Prevent any NPC from reaching maximum fear level in a playthrough.

The fear system is notoriously janky and underdeveloped in The Thing. Overall it's pretty easy to keep courage up and to get the achievement, so don't worry too much about it.

Fear rises most notably in horrifying enviroments like rooms with gore and corpses, but will quickly drop again if the squad member leaves the area that frightened him. Encounters with Things, especially larger ones / bosses, also rises fear. In an emergency, you can administer adrenaline syringes to temporarily boost a squadmates courage. Arming squad members with weapons will also make them more resilient to fear, depending on the potency of the weapon:

Sniper Rifle > Shotgun > SMG > Pistol

Squad members will communicate their fear level with verbal shouts and their facial expressions in the squad menu. At high fear, squadmates will start shaking their heads. After this, squadmates might eventually start to panic. This is indicated by a panic alert over their heads:

These alerts are the final hints for the player to get the squadmate away from the freightening scene or to administer adrenaline quickly. The panic alert will start yellow, followed by orange and finally red. Reaching yellow and orange alert stages doesn't effect the achievement, but red does.

Red alert means the squadmate has reached maximum fear and the achievement is busted.

Level 1 - US Base

Achievement: Ghost from the Past - play McReady's Tape - collapsed hut in the pit
Achievement: Out of This World - Find the UFO - unmissable
Terminal 1: "I have compiled a 5-page report..." - Infirmary
Document 1: Autopsy 1 - Infirmary
Document 2: Autopsy 2 - Infirmary
Document 3: Autopsy 3 - Infirmary
Document 4: Autopsy 4 - Infirmary
Document 5: Autopsy 5 - Infirmary
Savestation 1: Infirmary Storeroom
Achievement: Perfect Trust - max out squad trust before finishing the mission by giving every member a weapon and max ammo

Level 2a - Norwegian Outpost North

Achievement: Let There Be Light - Restore power at Norwegian camp - unmissable
Achievement: Colin's Fate - take a close look at the corpse on a chair in the lab room
Savestation 2: Lab Room
Terminal 2: "We're all going crazy..."

Level 2b - Norwegian Outpost South

Savestation 3: Shelter
Savestation 4: Supply Hut
Achievement: Bad Blood - Administer a Thing test - unmissable

Level 3a - Norwegian Research Center

Terminal 3: "Lost contact with the medi-center..."
Savestation 5: Canteen
Savestation 6: Comms Room

Level 3b - Norwegian Medical Center

Savestation 7: Sleeping Quarters

Level 4a - Weather Station

Savestation 8: Ground Floor
Terminal 4: "Gen-Inc personnel were here again.."
Terminal 5: "I've positioned the telescope..."

Level 4b - Pyron Hangar

Terminal 6: "Controls for operating the crane..."
Terminal 7: "Construction of the test chambers..."
Document 6: Reminder
Savestation 9: Tool Room
Achievement: A Pale Imitation - Defeat the Rupture Boss - unmissable

Level 5a - Pyron Sub Alpha

Savestation 10: Operations Room
Terminal 8: "We have taken a number..."

Level 5b - Pyron Sub Beta

Savestation 11: Observation Area
Terminal 9: "Test subject B4..."

Level 6 - Strata Medi-Lab

Terminal 10: "Initial bio profile..."
Document 7: Dr. M. Rodriguez's Note
Document 8: Page from Hanson's diary
Terminal 11: "All security gates are set..."
Savestation 11: Living Quarters
Terminal 12: "I am getting increasingly worried..."
Terminal 13: "Cell 1 - 829 Stenberg..."
Terminal 14: "Terminal 747: Request access code for elevator..."

Level 7a - Strata Maintenace

Savepoint 12: Furnace Room

Level 7b - Strata Furnace

Terminal 12: "Please can you check..."
Savestation 13: Study
Savestation 14: Control Room

Level 8a - Transit Hangar 1

Terminal 13: "Demolition Staff Announcement..."
Savestation 15: Laboratory
Terminal 14: "I've locked the grenade launcher..."
Savestation 16: Store Room
Savestation 17: Armory

Level 8b - Flight Control

Savestation 18: Staff Room
Terminal 15: "When the troops arrived..."
Savestation 19: Generator Room
Savestation 20: Control Tower

Level 9a - Weapons Security

Savepoint 21: Guard Room

Level 9b - Weapons Lab

Terminal 16: "Current tests on..."
Savestation 22: Storage Room
Terminal 17: "The anti-thing virus..."
Terminal 18: "Testing is going well..."
Terminal 19: "Stolls was up all night..."
Terminal 20: "We had what you might call..."
Terminal 21: "Everyone was late..."
Terminal 22: "I found a large hole..."
Terminal 23: "The beast has friends..."
Terminal 24: "Breath deep Blake."
Savestation 23: Robotics Lab
Savestation 24: Weapons Locker

Level 10 - Field Testing

Savestation 25: The Dome
Achievement: Audiophile - will pop up right after interacting with savepoint 25.
Achievement: A Thing of the Past - Kill the final boss unmissable
Achievement: Remain Calm - Prevent any NPC from reaching maximum fear level in a playthrough - pops up after finishing the game.