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Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Horror
OpenCritic70IGDB63
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.
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Dark, demanding, overwhelming and cryptic.
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GamingTrendDavid FlynnJan 202295/100Pathologic 1 & 2 are masterpieces of games as art. They are cruel and disturbing, but ask unique questions and do things you won't see anywhere else. These are singularly unique experiences that are worth suffering through.
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Paste MagazineDia LacinaMay 20199/10Pathologic 2 is a deeply weird game, with a Mayakovskian cast of characters, plopped into an apocalyptic Bertolt Brecht play set deep in the Russian Steppe. And while the actual gameplay maybe disappointing or frustrating to some (it was to me), I can't help but be compelled by a game so enthusiastically bizarre.
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KeenGamerWilliam DareOct 20219/10Pathologic 2 is survival horror at its most challenging and rewarding. A horror game which plagues you both literally and psychologically. It certainly isn’t for everyone but it is a testament to what games can be at their best. Story telling gold. Whilst it isn’t fun, it isn’t meant to be.
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FourFaceButtonsDavid AedoJun 20203/10Pathologic 2 is a fascinating and brutal world that is worth diving into if you want something different, but not on the PlayStation 4. About four months after release, this version has never been updated and remains utterly broken. Selling the game in this state is bordering on a scam.
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GameSpotDavid WildgooseMay 20195/10Pathologic 2 offers a hauntingly bleak tale, then does its best to stop you from experiencing it.
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IGDB rating 7.4/10 from 103 ratings.
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