In-game CDC announcements and news headlines pop up during play, giving feedback on how the players’ pathogen is faring.
Just as real-life pathogens often evolve to counter humanity’s efforts to eradicate it, the player must do the same in Plague Inc. in order to survive. Less developed countries have a harder time fighting off the disease while richer countries scramble to find a cure. For example, evolving your pathogen to survive in warm water will increase the likelihood that it will infect those in humid areas. Plague Inc. highlights the different ways that diseases can spread depending on environmental factors and specific countries’ economic status. Players earn DNA points by infecting more countries, which they can use to add certain attributes to their pathogen, such as the ability able to spread via animals or cause more deadly symptoms like organ failure and insanity.
Players start off by picking a country, trying to evolve their pathogen from a nonlethal disease into a highly infectious epidemic capable of ending life as we know it. Plague Inc. is an eerie pathogen simulator that lets you become a deadly disease set out to infect everyone on Earth.
