Wanna kill all of your least favorite people without actually doing it? this game is for you.

Very nice game, quick scenarios.

Is this game worth your time, yes or no? I'm not sure myself. I had some fun with it, but I never played the mobile version. If you did, you're probably better off with that one, since this costs a whopping 15 bucks and doesn't really offer all that much.

In PI:E you are a virus or bacterium or whatever you wanna be. Your goal is the eradication of the human race. Sounds like fun and actually is for a short time. The main game consists of several different scenarios from simple viruses, bacteria to mind control worms and "ape flues". In theory this all sounds very interesting and different. In reality though this is where the game just falls off, because every scenario is more or less the same with some minor differences (the Simian Flue is actually the most interesting since you can actually create ape colonies, have them fight and transmit the disease, etc.)

The core gameplay, however, stays the same. You pick a starting country (preferably with access to planes and ships) and then click on various bubbles to get "DNA" points with which you can increase the virility, severity and lethality of your plague, as well as develop certain immunities or stronger transmission via birds, insects, air, etc.

The problem is you don't really see the effects of these choices. You can mostly just guess what you might need. Let's take Greenland as an example: It's only accessible by boat (potentially birds I guess), is sparsely populated and pretty cold, so it's imho the hardest country to even infect. You need to invest a lot and the costs are constantly rising after each upgrade. ♥♥♥♥ you, Greenland.

There's also a lot of RNG involved since your plague can mutate randomly, which can ♥♥♥♥ up your whole plan, leading either to a too quick discovery by doctors or killing people too quickly before everyone can get infected. You can "devolve" these mutations, but that costs DNA points as well...*sigh*.

When your plague is discovered you can only hope that you can infect everyone quickly enough since there isn't much you can do to slow down research other than investing in particular traits if you get enough DNA points, which becomes ever harder the longer the game goes on since you mostly get them from infecting new countries. Fascinatingly, once the cure is found, millions of people are healed quasi over night and you lose the game almost instantly.

PI:E is not a bad "game", but it's more of a time sink than a real strategy game imho. I can't imagine what playing this on brutal would look like...casual was already annoying enough. Might grab this for a steep discount.

This game is great! I was waiting for the PC version, cuz I played on mobile
9/10
some hard achivements

Plague Inc: Evolved is a work of (pukes) art.The superb way every (cough) mutation forces you to (sneeze) upgrade perfectly, the many varied (barf) with hunderds of unique designs, everything comes together to make what is certainly the greatest (Euuugh) disease simulator of.... (falls over)

1 word... Greenland

I like it

Killed the world with Weed

stoner/10

This game is similar to plague inc. on mobile

Ever wanted to destroy the worlds using Herpes, and other random things of your imagination? Then this is the game for you.