Really fun game! Love it, except for one small detail

I feel like a lot of the pathogens in this game are relatively scientifically accurate (as much as they can be for a mobile game) except for the prion option. Prion diseases can’t really spread through typical means, since they are misfolded proteins. I understand why they would be contagious through these typical means in the game for gameplay reasons, but I think it would be really interesting if they were more contagious through food consumption in the game (like they are in real life.) perhaps there could be an option to evolve to infect different types of livestock, and as the disease gets noticed, countries start banning the consumption of certain types of meat. It could be cool if there were more options for neural atrophy, since real life prion diseases have pretty nasty effects on the brain. Overall, I think there should be slightly less options for spreading the disease through air and water, but more options for spreading through animals, food consumption, and higher resistance of the disease. Aside from this, the game is really fun, and has to be one of my favorite mobile games.

This game is FIRE (literally and in game)

This game is crazy good, hard but good, ranging from fun up to saving the world from what you caused. It’s great and I appreciate that about Plague Inc. the realistic model how fun the game is. normal mode is awesome. Just making a plague. You have so many different abilities to upgrade your… I mean… whatever it is. YOU CAN UPGRADE IT. and I love how they use Roman numerals instead of 1 2 3 4. I could go on and on. But just to save time for reading this review. I recommend the game. if you’re crazy enough as me just keep reading, I said I could go on and on. so why not do it? And there were so many different types of viruses you can get bacteria, virus, and all the way up to alien virus. (the funny thing about it is there is an upgrade that allows you to turn people into snails with the alien virus) and there is a cure mode. But get the cure mode you have to pay. Why do I have to pay a game They already payed for!? It’s actually kind of annoying. It’s not even all that fun. Minus one star. It’s still a great game, though ranging from beginner all the way up to brutal difficulty. As normal already feels impossible. Look at brutal over here. You don’t even do anything and They already have the cure. It’s so annoying. all I know is that you should play the game. mike drop. this guy is out.

Hard game mostly behind a paywall

I was lead into this game because I wanted to play the zombie and vampire scenarios, but quickly learned they are added dlc even though they are in the game images without mentioning that. I play a lot of world conquering games like CIV fand EU4, so I u Der stand the basics of this type of game. However I found this game to be quite difficult from the very beginning and all the maps are locked behind either beating the previous level on a certain difficulty or a paywall. I know people will say ‘get good’, but the game also doesn’t do a good job of giving you hints on how to improve and all the bonus items are again locked behind a paywall so you can’t even grind for them. This game is a big disappointment due to the learning curve. And if I don’t want to pay for the zombies or vampires, you have to beat all the levels on the hard mode. I cannot recommend this to anyone but the most die hard fan of this game. I hope the develop has improved on their other titles. Update: I beat all the main game plagues on Brutal difficulty and the game only allowed me to play the shadow/vampire plague once and then locked me out to buy even though it said it would open up if I beat the main plagues on that difficulty level. What is the deal. I know people like this game but it seems like it it always blocking me from trying the next thing.

Relieving

Soooooooo yeah, I’m back. I was here about a year ago and gave this a 3 star and said that to do stuff in the game you have to pay in addition to the price of the game. I was wrong. You have to beat everything on normal and then the specials on brutal. My one concern is the shadow plague. Without the 3rd tier blood thing (the one that raises combat ability) you cannot fight ANYTHING. Even the labs will half kill you. Just saying that this might need a tiny redesign. Second, I cannot for the life of me (without cheats) complete Black Death (or whatever it’s called) scenario. I’ve tried with cheats to get the strat but seriously, without cheats it’s like trying to do shadow plague on mega brutal on first try. Either I don’t get something or I’m bad or it’s impossible. It’s most likely the first as I’ve completed everything on mega brutal except it. I also have a quick suggestion: multiplayer. You’ve already created both things for it: the cure mode and the plague mode. Have a multiplayer where one person tries to infect the world while the other person tries to stop them. Amazing game, keep it up

Great game overall

I love the game, it’s super fun to play. However, I’ve noticed that there’s a bug in the smallpox scenario, or at least I think it’s a bug. No matter what you do or where you start, after the plague infects a few hundred or a few thousand people in your starting country, it immediately stops infecting people. Sometimes it will spread to other countries, but in those countries it also very quickly stops infecting people, making the scenario end very quickly because the plague kills everyone and doesn’t infect anyone more. In a recent smallpox scenario, I started in Egypt and it infected like 10,000 people, more than usual. Then it stopped infecting people and eventually no one was infected in Egypt, the 10,000 were all dead. It spread to a bunch of other countries in Africa and infected a few people in those countries, but then stopped infecting. It even spread by plane to the USA and like 20 people got infected, and it immediately went down to 0 because everyone got killed and no one else got infected. Besides this one issue I’ve confronted, the game is super fun to play.

Amazing, inspiring and passion outputting

I love epidemiology and your game serves as an output for that love. It is amazing to get to slow the spread of viruses and created real life disease scenarios. There is nothing wrong in the game apart from one bug, and that is when a natural disaster hits a country, any new infected people will just get killed off. For example, I started a disease in the United States portraying and H5N1 scenario, and sometime while it was spreading solely in the country of origin Mexico was hit by a tsunami, and 539 people died. When I later infected Mexico via land from the United States, all 7 of the new infections in Mexico died, and the only lethal symptom I had was fever, so not enough to kill all 7 right away. Also, I would love if you made a hyper realistic main game mode where you take incubation periods into account. So people could get over the disease, and have breakthrough infections as well, that would be fun. Alas, I love this game more than I probably should, thank you NDemic Creations!

I’m disappointed

This game is very fun when it works right. I started off on the easy difficulty and managed to win after one or two tries and then moved on to normal mode in which I have spent the past 3 and a half hours trying to beat and have not been successful. The jump in difficulty from easy to normal can only be described as braindead. There was one round where I managed to get the entire world infected without my disease being noticed (I did this by devolving every symptom when it came). As soon as I started adding symptoms, within 5 minutes the country was halfway to a cure and I couldn’t produce enough dna to make symptoms that would kill off the population, because once you have a bunch of people infected the game decides that you don’t need to earn dna points anymore for whatever reason. I went online looking up ways to beat it just for my own satisfaction of having the level beat but not one of them worked either. I remember playing this game when it came out and having a lot of fun but now there’s just a bad taste in my mouth and I can’t stand the thought of turning it on again because I know it will only frustrate me to no end as I hopelessly try to beat the normal difficulty knowing that I will not succeed.

Confused I guess

I love playing this game. I could spend a lot of hours playing this game. I am a person who likes to try and beat all the levels. Sooo. When playing bacteria on brutal. I’ve notice it’s difficult spreading the infection which is fine except whenever it starts going pretty fast the cure is already between 25 and 50%. So I figured I should try to kill them a little bit faster. But there’s always 1 country left that has healthy people, even if I fully get all the transmissions. It’s still so slow to spread even if you get cold or warm abilities to help it. I always loose. I even looked up ways to beat it and I still can’t. I’m too a point with it where this gam seems rigged and I no longer want to play. I’ve tried about every country to start the plaque in and I always loose. Also whenever I start the plague in the US it always freeze or crash!! I just feel like how long this game has been put it would be a little easier to play without these problems. I could understand making a level more challenging but no matter what I do there’s just no way of beating it!

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