Pathologic 2
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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.
Steam User 262
"Russian literature is built on suffering. Either the characters suffer, the author suffers, or the reader suffers. If all three suffer, then it's considered a masterpiece."
10/10 suffered a lot
Steam User 136
You need to know this before playing:
Pathologic 1 have the story of 3 characters.
In Pathologic 2 what you play is 1 of those, therefore is like a remaster and you don't need to play the 1st one.
"Shadow distance" is an FPS killer, if you turn it off or lower it to 5 your game will run way smoother.
Steam User 143
seeing haruspex and bachelor talk is like witnessing an epic battle between adhd and autism.
Steam User 78
Pathologic 2 is not a game that you play. It is a game that you go to war with. Unfortunately, your army is equipped with sticks and slings, whilst the enemy forces have fully automatic weapons and state of the art drones. In spite of this however, you are asked, not only to persevere, but succeed. This game was made by sadists who enjoy watching other people suffer - and it is glorious.
Pathologic 2 is an oppressively difficult game, so much so that the developers actually had to add difficulty options post-launch due to public outcry, much to their own dissatisfaction as I understand it. If you play on the intended difficulty (and you should) you will find a game that kicks you while you are down and spits on your face. It is unforgiving and it relishes in that fact. When you die in this game, you are punished for it, you'll lose max health and max hunger bar which is very rough for a survival game. However, the difficulty of this game adds so much to the atmosphere that it makes the tension of the game almost palpable. There are other games out there that have world ending plots that aren't even a quarter as tense as this game is. This game will take you on a roller coaster of emotions. Most of those emotions will be stress-adjacent, but the ones that aren't are so powerful. This game offers a sense of earned-catharsis that rival and even surpass the Fromsoft games.
Dying in this game is very unforgiving and you SHOULD be afraid of death. However, you should be more afraid of giving up. This game has so much to offer and death is just part of the experience. You play as one of the few doctors in an eastern European town that is being relentlessly assaulted by plague, famine, crime and all manner of otherworldly things and it is your job to keep it together. Sound stressful? You don't know the half of it, because while you are doing that you also need to make sure to eat, sleep, drink, check up on people in town and be a doctor. In doing these duties, you will become engrossed in a unique world that is so different to anything that the current video game market has to offer. With excellent dialogue, endearing characters, solid survival game play and a fantastic atmosphere to tie it all together, I could not recommend this game more if I tried. If you're interested in a single-player, story driven, survival game with real consequences, play Pathologic 2.
I know that this review is ambiguous, I have made it intentionally ambiguous, but I do not apologise for it. I went into this game almost entirely blind and I was treated to an experience that I will not forget, maybe ever.
"An open wound is a window into the world" - now go do your job as a surgeon and stitch it back up, Emshen.
Steam User 79
i sucked at the game so I deleted my save but the game knew what I did and punished me for it
10/10
Steam User 109
i'd rather kill myself than play this game again 10/10
Steam User 73
This game is like if Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, and Franz Kafka came together, got drunk, learned Unity engine and decided to make a game together. It's uniquely surreal and literary but never in a heavy-handed or pretentious way. Every piece feels like its cut exactly as it should be and fitted together to form a cohesive and meaningful whole. This game might not be for everyone-- it's a game that certainly demands a lot from the player, it will have sections of grueling, unbelievable cruelty and difficulty-- but if you should choose to stick with it, it will reward you with something truly unique and special. I don't think I've played a game that I've thought about so much and so long after finishing it.
10/10 - one of the best games I've ever played