Isolate Me!

Isolate Me! puts you in charge of controlling an outbreak in a small provincial city. As a police officer, you make decisions intended to protect the town while the number of infected people threatens to grow beyond the number of healthy residents.

Two-stage waves

The game continues through endless waves, each with two stages. During the seasonal-disease stage, the virus does not spread between citizens, and you receive an estimate of how many people in the city are infected. Isolate as many as possible before the pandemic stage and prepare the town for the spread of disease.

In the pandemic stage, the virus spreads from infected people left in the city. Your goal is to keep the infected population from outnumbering the healthy population. After this stage, the cycle begins again, with a new virus strain appearing as more people settle in the city. The game ends when about 80% of the city's citizens are infected.

Enforce isolation

You begin with a thermometer for checking citizens' temperatures. Isolate anyone with a high temperature; otherwise, issue them a certificate confirming they have been checked. You can call on support from the police department, hire interns to check pedestrians' temperatures, build barricades to restrict movement and install thermal-imaging cameras to monitor the area. Your tactics affect how the disease spreads through the city.

Protect yourself

You also need to manage your own risk of infection. Replace your mask and gloves in time to reduce that risk; the more often you touch people, the faster these items are used up. Disinfectant reduces your infection rate, and masks, gloves and disinfectant are available to buy at pharmacies.

Procedurally generated city

The city is procedurally generated each time you start a game, making each playthrough different.