The Thing: Infection At Outpost 31
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Review: J'accuse
May 25, 2018 by blipvertus 
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I’ve gotten to play this once and it was a hoot! I may have to buy a copy.
This is a semi-cooperative game of bluff and deduction. You play as a member of the science team stranded at a remote Antarctic base that’s discovered an alien entity bent in infecting you and breaking free of the base.
Players must complete missions to progress the game. Teams are nominated and only that team determines the success of the mission. Each team member then secretly provides a resource to help in that mission.
But, there is at least one traitor at the start of the game. And the number of players that become infected and switch to being traitors goes up.
The end game has an elected leader choosing who gets a limited number of dna tests to determine possible traitors. And who gets on the escape helicopter.
The only individual win is getting on the helicopter. The only win for the humans is no infected on board the helicopter.
I helped on every single mission and was completely honest on what I could contribute to each mission I was on. We won most and lost a few either to bad dice or sabotage.
I got elected to choose who would board the helicopter. I made judicious use of the dna test kits to eliminate infected people.
End result? Alien victory! I was the ONLY infected on board ...
Fun game, I recommend it.
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