Pathologic Classic HD
Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.
Pathologic Classic HD is a atmospheric, story rich and survival game
developed by Ice-Pick Lodge and General Arcade
and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
Released on October 29th 2015 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Russian, Polish and Italian.
It has received 3,871 reviews of which 3,388 were positive and 483 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 1.29€ on Steam and has a 90% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP or Later
- Processor: AMD Athlon 64 2.3 GHz / Intel Pentium 2.2 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon HD 4890 1024MB / GeForce 210 512MB
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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Experiencing Pathologic doesn't feel game-like. It's more like a niche novel, which isn't exactly pleasant, but it surely is well written and deeply fulfilling. The characters are so full of humanity you don't recognize the moment you start referring to them as friends and enemies and not NPCs. The town perfectly captures unsettling aura of Russia I know from novels and smoothly merges it with other-worldly gossip (and oh man, it works so well). The game won't give you solutions on the plate, you'll have to walk a lot and read a lot. The game generally doesn't tell you much... for instance you can check letters sent to you with "L" and not knowing that led me to missing out on significant amount of quests (daily quests as well) in my first playthrough. The further into the game, the more and more it relies on your common-sense and morality. Morality being the important word here as the game touches various modern-life issues :] With the game being quite complicated I highly recommend going to the theather every night as it is a perfect way to summarize events of the day, draw conclusions and feel way more prepared for the next day. Enjoying this mysterious-survival-journey will probably cause you a lot of stress, confusion and you'll feel pressured by fleeing of time - don't worry, it's part of the storytelling ;) It's also a survival game - managing money, eating, being infected, sleeping, doing your job - it will be tough to make ends meet. Not to mention all the moral-dillemas encountered during the gameplay, which seem crucial to what this game is supposed to be. So, what this game is supposed to be? It's supposed to be a fight. You and The Plague, on the other side of the screen. It's about doing the right thing, trusting your gut, facing the consequences. It's about balance between moral and beneficial choices. You have to save the town while also saving your very own ass. You become so involved in townsfolk's lives you can't stay indifferent. You want to protect all of that despite it being rough. If my review didn't put you off, play it :) It's worth it!
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Misery simulator. Go into it as blind as possible. Save scum - the game doesn't hesitate to kick you in the teeth even once you get your footing. Honestly the game isn't nearly as jank or outdated as some reviews will claim it to be. Treat it like an older game (review your controls from the menu asap and don't expect a world class tutorial) and you're good to go. You will come to view the devs as your friends that are also scumbags (but still your friends (but still scumbags))
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This is a game that has been sitting in my library unfinished for the exact opposite reason than all the other games in the same category. Those others, I don't play because they don't interest me enough. This one, I can't bring myself to keep playing because it legitimately interests me too much. The gameplay here is challenging, and I can imagine it to be frustrating because wrong choices will lead to the game being over (without you having to die to make it happen) and no option but to start over from a previous save, but oh boy is everything about playing this rewarding. The emotional component, the writing, the plot, the visuals, the atmosphere in general... I have a Steam friend who posts positive reviews about this studio's games with nothing but the studio's name as the actual review, and I really understand what he means by that. These people aren't messing around. Came out in support of Ukraine in the first few days of the war (being Russian), as well. In short, Pathologic is like one of those movies that has you think about it long after you've watched it. If this isn't a must-play, then I don't know what is.
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If you have any interest at all in Pathologic despite its reputation, then you are going to love it and I implore you to play it. For some reason, Pathologic has picked up a reputation as a “hostile” and polarizing game. The former is malarkey, but the latter is accurate. Yes, the game is not afraid to be mean, but it is overall more kind than cruel. Certain video essays from British YouTubers who were formerly blond and currently bald will exaggerate the threats the game throws at you, yet fail to properly convey that, despite how much stress it will put you through, the game is still designed to be played and beaten rather easily. It is a smart game because its survival horror has more bark than bite. You will often feel on the verge of failure and death yet you are ultimately likely to survive most encounters. However, I still hold that Pathologic is polarizing. Not due to its hostility but rather due to the fact that what it is may not be for everyone, much in the same way any given game may not appeal to everyone. You would not play Doom (2016) if guns, demons, or comically excessive violence were not something you were interested in. Here are the elements in Pathologic that you must enjoy in order to enjoy the game: [*] Walking and being alone with your thoughts [*] Weighty dialogue that unabashedly aspires to discuss philosophical and/or spiritual ideas Yes, it really is just those two elements. The gameplay loop basically boils down to just walking to a person, having an insane conversation, and then walking to the next person to have another insane conversation. The greatest complications come when sometimes you are not sure who the next person is that you must talk to for the next insane conversation. In these cases, you need to think or explore a little. Thus, if you can walk the walk and talk the talk, then you are going to overall enjoy and value this experience. Needless to say, if this does not sound interesting, then you should not play this. So what makes the game good? Simply that the walking and talking is, in fact, incredible. Few games have left me as immersed in its world and as enthralled by its ideas as Pathologic. It is an incredibly beautiful and poetic game. It is one of the purest examples of what games can achieve and is in the company of other monumental titles like Shadow of the Colossus. It frustrates me immensely that this game has the reputation of being so hostile that it turns off people who I think would enjoy it. If you have any interest in Pathologic already, then you are likely to fulfill the two prerequisites for enjoying this game. Give it a try; I think you will find much to like.
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I hate this game. But I also really love it. But mostly I hate it. On the same hand, it's also really good and I love it. Confused? Good. Because I am too. Pathologic is a strange game. I think it has the most flaws out of any game I have ever played and I could ramble on for hours about how terrible this game is. However, I could also give you a myriad reasons as to why you should play this game. Just read the top Steam reviews for this thing. That'll decide if you play this or not. So what's good about this game? Well: -Good story/lore -Amazing character writing -Interesting game world which changes from day to day -Multiple playable characters -Fantastic atmosphere But what's bad about this game? So many things. Let me tell you: -The rats in this game are the worst thing ever created by man -Infected districts are annoying as fuck and the plague is badly designed -Combat is dog water -90% of the time you're just walking around doing errands for some bastard who won't leave their house -Some character routes are objectively better than others -Quests are often poorly designed and their use of quest markers is all over the place -The game does not tell you that your most useful menu is the letters menu, accessed by hitting L (this basically is what gives you quests to do on each day) -This game is mentally exhausting and the dialogue is often hard to understand -This game makes any mental illnesses you have worse, and if you have none it will give you one, randomly selected from a bucket with plague mold on it You walk a lot in this game. That's pretty much all you do. Then you get hungry and have to eat something. Then maybe you get a wittle sweepy and have to take a nap. Oh, and you're constantly on a timer. If you don't complete the day's main quest by midnight, oh well. You failed the quest and one of your Bound (the people you babysit) is now deathly ill or dead. Great job! And once you wake up, feeling the weight of your failure on your back, you go outside and get stabbed to death by a thug, burned to death by an angry teamsters member, and shot to death by an army soldier because your reputation is basically zero after you killed two children in a back street for immunity pills that you later learned do basically nothing to protect you against the shitty ass plague. And speaking of the plague, right as you get stabbed to death, burned, and shot, you die knowing that you at least used that funny box of drugs to cure yourself of the disease, so that's cool. BUT THEN A RAT APPEARS FROM NOWHERE AND BITES YOUR BIG TOE, GIVING YOU PLAGUE AGAIN. YAY THIS GAME IS GREAT AND I LOVE IT AND EVERYTIME I LOAD IT UP I FEEL LIKE MY BRAIN IS GETTING BRUISED WHY DID I PLAY THIS THREE FUCKING TI Anyway it's pretty good you should play it, especially if you have some deep-seated self-hatred. And if you don't, this game will give it to you! 1/10 but also 10/10 but really it's no more than a 6/10 realistically why did i play this for fifty hours why
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Online players
54
Developer
Ice-Pick Lodge,
General Arcade
Publisher
Good Shepherd Entertainment
Release
29 Oct 2015
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