Plague Inc.
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| Developer(s) | Ndemic Creations |
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| Genre(s) | Real-time strategy, simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Metacritic | 80/100 |
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| IGN | 7/10 |
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Plague Inc. is a real-time strategy, simulation video game, developed and published by UK-based independent games studio Ndemic Creations. The player creates and evolves a pathogen in an effort to destroy the world with a deadly plague. The game uses an epidemic model with a complex and realistic set of variables to simulate the spread and severity of the plague.
The PC and Xbox One version is entitled Plague Inc: Evolved, which includes adjustments and additions to the gameplay.
It has been downloaded over 50 million times and was a runner up in the IGN Game of the Year 2012 awards for 'Overall Best Strategy Game'. Overall, it was the 15th most downloaded paid iPhone game of 2012 in the U.S. and the 5th most downloaded paid iPhone game of 2013 in the U.S. In February 2014, Ndemic Creations released Plague Inc: Evolved, for PC, Mac and Linux onto Steam. The game continues to have an active community and is regularly updated.
Plague Inc. is a strategy-simulation game in which the player controls a plague which has infected patient zero. The player can choose between various game-modes and pathogens and complete the objective set by the game-mode by evolving the plague and adapting to various environments. The objectives include, but are not limited to: Infecting and killing the world's population with a pathogen, enslaving the world's population with the "Neurax Worm" or converting the world's population into zombies with the "Necroa Virus". However, there is a time pressure to complete the game before humans, the opponent, develop a cure for the plague.
The developer has said it is "a bit like the film Contagion except you are on the other side". The game was inspired by Pandemic 2, a browser-based Flash game released in 2008 by Dark Realm Studios.
The player can play as many different types of pathogens, each with its own perks which influence evolution decisions. Initially, the player may only select bacteria. Subsequent pathogens are unlocked by winning the game with the previous one on Normal Mode.
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