Pathologic 2 is a reimagining of the original, focused on the Haruspex, Artemy Burakh. You return to your plague-stricken hometown as a surgeon-healer caught between local kinship traditions, colonial urban power, impossible medicine, hunger, exhaustion, and a clock that never stops. Compared with the 2005 game, it is more mechanically coherent and cinematic, but still intentionally punishing: you are meant to triage, fail, compromise, and live with irreversible consequences.
Role-playing (RPG)AdventureIndieHorrorThrillerSurvivalDramaOpen worldMysterynarrative-drivenplaguePlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
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Character
Overwhelming, grave, demanding and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
- Developer
- Ice-Pick Lodge
- Publisher
- tinyBuild
- Released
- May 23, 2019
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- Unity
IGDB rating 7.4/10 from 103 ratings.
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