Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game launches John Carpenter's the Thing into space this October

I'll always be up for a game that riffs on John Carpenter's The Thing, and the last few years have been especially strong for representation of hostile, amorphous alien life forms in games. We've had The Thing set on an oil rig, The Thing where you play as the Thing, and just plain old The Thing, albeit shinier and easier to play. Now, Supermassive Games is giving us The Thing in space, with its latest Dark Pictures Game, Directive 8020, arriving this October.

Now, you might argue we've already had The Thing in space, in the form of the Dead Space trilogy. But Dead Space was only inspired by the Thing at an aesthetic level, with similarly horrible shapeshifting monsters that go "GRABOWALAGAGARGH!" when they attack you. As its new trailer demonstrates, Directive 8020 more specifically adopts The Thing's themes of paranoia and mistrust.