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9.0There’s an insane level of possible customization, including different AI strengths, special “infection” mode, free choice of multiplayer options, but they’re all icing on the cake that is insane depth of Pathogen.
Pathogen
Gameblyr · Nov 7, 2013
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Pathogen is a real-time strategy game, where you take control of a plague that is causing a pandemic. Your goal is to defeat humanity by improving your abilities and earning points from infections.
Choose from many different types of pathogens, each with unique abilities. You can customize your plague by choosing a color and a disease name. Lots of extra customization will come in the future.
Superplagues are special plagues that differ from realistic ones, as their special abilities (thankfully) are purely fictional.
You can play PvP human vs plague games on a LAN network. In multiplayer games, you can play as the human side, placing hospitals, setting lockdowns, and researching for new medicaments, trying to stop the disease as much as you can until your scientists find a cure.
Research for new compounds in the compound table, and combine them to create a huge spectrum of possible medicaments. You can also customize your medicaments by selecting a name and a color for the box.
Choose from many different types of pathogens, each with unique abilities. You can customize your plague by choosing a color and a disease name. Lots of extra customization will come in the future.
- Bacteria: Simplicity to use. High climate resistances. Can grow a flagellum which makes it faster.
- Virus: Fast spreading speed, mutates in new strains with random benefits. However, dies fast outside of the host.
- Parasite: Play alongside mosquitoes to reach its full potential.
Superplagues are special plagues that differ from realistic ones, as their special abilities (thankfully) are purely fictional.
- Thanatus: Create fake outbreaks around the world, created by only collective paranoia. However, these outbreaks may be even more destructive than real ones.
- Radion: The most unstable pathogen, as radioactive material is stored in its nucleus.
You can play PvP human vs plague games on a LAN network. In multiplayer games, you can play as the human side, placing hospitals, setting lockdowns, and researching for new medicaments, trying to stop the disease as much as you can until your scientists find a cure.
Research for new compounds in the compound table, and combine them to create a huge spectrum of possible medicaments. You can also customize your medicaments by selecting a name and a color for the box.
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- Hardcore Droid9.0Without a doubt, everything about Pathogen is at your fingertips, from the touch-friendly gameplay to the ease of learning the game’s theory. ...Replay value is at least threefold for the campaign’s increasing difficulty settings, and arguably of infinite enjoyment against multiplayer foes.You'll rack your brain and shake your device in an amused fury with this fun strategy title.
- 148Apps8.0Pathogen is a solid strategy game, but one that requires a amount of certain patience to play it. Definitely keep an eye out for when it adds online play – that could be a killer feature if implemented well.
- AppSpy8.0The AI can be uncompromising, and perhaps the players are given too much power to shift the tide of the game. However, we reckon Pathogen is an ingenious board game which will test your nerves to their limits.
- Pocket Gamer8.0Sometimes it could use a unified rulebook or just slightly clearer wording when it explains new concepts to you. Sometimes playing is just a little bit too much like hard work to be fun. But mostly, it's just infectiously entertaining. A novel abstract strategy game that checks all the boxes for a fantastic digital experience and is charming enough, despite occasional accessibility issues, to win over abstract cynics like me.
- 4players.de9.0Pathogen ist eines dieser wenigen Spiele, die zeitlose Qualitäten besitzen. Wenn man es einmal begonnen hat, kann man sich der dynamischen Zelleroberung kaum entziehen: Das Antizipieren der gegnerischen Züge, die kluge Planung der nächsten Schritte und die Sicherung der Gebiete stehen im Zentrum. All das ist zwar inspiriert von klassischen Brettspielen wie Go, aber es gelingt dem kleinen Team von Birnam Wood Games mit modernen Elementen wie beweglichen Arenen und Kettenreaktionen ein ganz neues Spielgefühl zu formen.
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