Pathologic 2 is a narrative-driven dramatic thriller about fighting a deadly outbreak in a secluded rural town. The town is dying. Face the realities of a collapsing society as you make difficult choices in seemingly lose-lose situations. The plague isn’t just a disease. You can’t save everyone....
Pathologic 2 is a narrative-driven dramatic thriller about fighting a deadly outbreak in a secluded rural town. The town is dying. Face the realities of a collapsing society as you make difficult choices in seemingly lose-lose situations. The plague isn’t just a disease. You can’t save everyone.
The plague is devouring the town. The chief local healer is dead, and you are now to take his place. You’ll have to look for unexpected allies. The local kids are hiding something. Try playing by their rules.
You only have 12 days.
12 days in an odd town ravaged by a deadly disease.
Time is of the essence: if you don’t manage it carefully, it’ll simply run out. You’ll have to choose how to spend the priceless minutes you have.
Survival thriller. You’ll have to manage your bodily functions, offsetting hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and so on. It doesn’t boil down to scavenging resources. Surviving on your own is hard; you’ll have to win over allies.
An uphill battle. Managing your bodily parameters may seem bearable at first, and as time goes by, it becomes harder and harder. Your own body is only waiting for an opportunity to give up and betray you. Things are changing from bad to worse and the odds are stacked against you.
A duel with an enemy you can’t kill. Your main foe is the plague itself, an incorporeal and malevolent entity that you have to defeat… without having the means to. It’s more powerful and more treacherous than you can imagine.
Loot, murder, mug, steal, barter, beg… or don’t. You need resources to survive, and it’s up to you how to obtain them.
The fights are short, ungraceful, and vicious. They’re not always lethal though. Many people—yourself included—would prefer to exchange their wallet for their life.
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This game isn´t fun and isn´t built to be fun. It´s a unrelentless survival game with the most stressing and meanest atmostphrere and gameplay I´ve ever played (I´m a gamer since 30 years). And I know what survivial horror stress means ...It´s super hard to beat even on normal difficulty and I used occasionally a walktrough. Even then it was non-stop stress. The story and the characters are great and worth of literature.
It´s a gem in its own may.
It's difficult to put into words how I feel about this game. Buy This Game is the shortest version I can give.
So, why?
This game is not like any game I've ever played in my life. Oh sure, bits and pieces are familiar, but the structure and narrative that connects this game, the gameplay points that join everything up, they aren't like anything you'll see in any other game. It's not quite alien, more like a foreign-film with no subtitles, but beautiful all the same.
This is also a very hard game, so do keep that in mind. It's a game where it is very hard to do the right thing.
Most of the time, that kind of system can be gamed or learned or exploited or worked against, but this is one of the only games I've ever seen that truly makes doing the right thing or even a half-decent thing almost impossible. You will constantly feel behind, constantly feel overwhelmed.
And it's magnificent.
There's so much happening in this game, and so many things you are bound to miss or just refuse to follow. And you'll both dread and look forward to a second playthrough as a result. Dread, because the nightmare will start all over, and look forward to because you may just find the tiny oasis you're looking for.
This is a piece of art. Deep, difficult and dark. The graphics are very good I think ... but the design is just outstanding. Music fits very good and the story is complex and very interesting. I tried other games like this in the past but they were all ugly und clunky. This is a true gem and for me the best game in 2019.
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