Dead 4 Now: Bio-weapon Simulator

Dead 4 Now: Bio-weapon Simulator is a laboratory game about developing biological weapons by manipulating DNA. You synthesize bases, design DNA sequences, engineer viruses and prepare them for injection. Failed attempts bring you closer to a stronger variant.

Design viruses

The game includes 20 natural and synthetic DNA bases with properties such as toxicity, mutation potential, spread rate and tissue-targeting effects. You can combine their properties and create custom DNA strands of up to 100 bases, choosing which bases to use and when to modify them. These decisions determine how your virus behaves.

Craft and prepare

Order components from the deep web and receive them at your lab, then mix them in the correct proportions to craft bases. Crafting depends on knowledge as well as ingredients. A real-world-inspired device can automate the process from synthesis through purification and replication to preparation for injection.

Make a vaccine

You can design a vaccine against your own virus by inactivating it with heat, strengthening it with adjuvants, then formulating and testing the result.

Biological systems

The game draws on synthetic biology, molecular genetics and virology. It simulates the behavior of custom-designed viruses and presents simplified but coherent versions of synthesis, PCR, purification and injection.