Pathogen

Pathogen is a real-time strategy game in which you control a plague and try to defeat humanity. You improve your pathogen’s abilities and earn points from infections. You can also play as humanity in LAN-network PvP games, working to stop the disease until scientists find a cure.

Pathogens

Choose from several pathogen types, each with distinct abilities. You can give your plague a color and disease name. The available types include:

• Bacteria: Easy to use and highly resistant to different climates; it can grow a flagellum to move faster.
• Virus: Spreads quickly and mutates into new strains with random benefits, but dies quickly outside a host.
• Parasite: Reaches its full potential by working alongside mosquitoes.

Superplagues have fictional special abilities rather than realistic ones. They include Thanatus, which creates fake outbreaks driven by collective paranoia that may be even more destructive than real ones, and Radion, an unstable pathogen with radioactive material stored in its nucleus.

Play as humanity

In LAN-network PvP matches, the human side places hospitals, imposes lockdowns and researches new medicaments to contain the disease while scientists seek a cure.

Develop medicaments

Research compounds in the compound table and combine them to create a wide range of possible medicaments. You can customize each medicament by choosing its name and the color of its box.