Plague Inc: Evolved

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5)
"Infectiously Addictive (Pun Intended)"

Plague Inc is a game that grabs your attention and doesn’t let go. The concept is unique where you create and evolve a disease to wipe out humanity. It sounds dark but it's seriously fun.

There’s a lot of variety with different plague types and each one offers a new way to play. The strategy is solid and you have to think about how to spread when to evolve and how to stay under the radar.

It can get difficult at times. Some scenarios are really tough especially when the cure research speeds up faster than your infection. But that just makes winning feel more rewarding.

If you like strategy games science themes or something different Plague Inc is absolutely worth trying. Just be ready to spend a lot of time on it.

👍 Would infect again.

a game everyone should definitely own. it's both informative and interactive and the game play simply is addictive. although I feel like the content is limited, but passing a level is not that easy

Fun gimmick game for 5 bucks, "replay ability" is really just doing the same thing except a few abilities are different. You aren't made to adapt your starting strategy.

The PC version is a massive disappointment.

As others have mentioned, the game's difficulty curve is in overdrive causing even casual/normal rounds to require extreme luck in order to succeed. Having even on symptom causes the disease to be noticed and research will start almost immediately and it takes very little time to complete followed by a week to inoculate the entire planet. Those of us who lived through the last few years can attest that that does not happen in reality which is what the game was originally pitched on; mimicking real world scenarios and procedures including corroboration with the CDC.

I originally played this game on mobile and was able to clear everything on at least the top two highest difficulty settings. That version of the game also entailed strategies more tailored to individual disease types as opposed to having a single strategy that's used for everything. I used to enjoy this game but the RNG is insane and the humans close down ports to stop a disease that solely causes a cough or a sneeze.

If you're a fan of the mobile version stick with that. The PC port has nothing to offer.

Its ok, got decent replay value. but buy on sale, dont pay full price!

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Perfect
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Okay
☐ Bad
☐ Very stylized
☐ They're what they should be for what the game is
☐ MS Paint could make something better

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Fantastic
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Meh
☐ Bad, but playable
☐ Just go watch paint dry

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Amazing
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not to bad
☐ Alright
☐ Bad
☐ My ears are bleeding

---{ Audience }---
☑ Babies
☑ Young kids
☑ Young teens
☑ Older teens
☑ Adults
☑ Old people
☑ Anyone with a decent maturity level
☑ Anyone with a lack of maturity
☑ Anyone that is alive
☑ No one, not even your dog

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Just average
☐ A little better than average
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Better than good
☐ Fancy Pants Rich Boy
☐ NASA

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Can choose your difficulty setting
☐ No difficulty needed
☑ Just press 'W"
☐ Easy
☐ Medium
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Hard
☐ Verry Difficult

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if you like to collect things
☑ Only if you care about steam achievements
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Only if you care about rankings/placements/leaderboards/etc.
☐ Average grind level
☐ A little grindy
☑ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second life, maybe some macros, & a will to live for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ Story? What story?
☐ No Story
☐ Twilight was a better love story than this
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ 1-2 Hours
☐ 2-5 Hours
☐ 5-10 Hours
☐ 10-20 Hours
☐ 20-50 Hours
☐ 50+ Hours
☐ 100+ Hours
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Replayablity }---
☐ You won't even finish it the first time
☐ None, once was enough
☐ Not that kind of game
☑ You don't stop playing this kinda game, ever
☐ Maybe once or twice, to try something new
☐ You'll want to get every single possible ending & secret there is
☐ You'll pick it up every few years, but never finish a whole playthrough
☐ A lot, just to romance everyone, pick new options. try new classes, etc

---{ Price }---
☐ It’s free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If you have some money to blow
☐ Wait for it to go on sale for the 100th time
☐ Ask someone to gift it to you instead
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Circumstantial (PC specs, internet, save/install location, etc.)
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Very low
☑ Low
☐ Average
☐ High
☐ Too much

---{ Worth It }---
☐ Hell no!
☐ If you have a lot of cash
☑ Worth it!
☐ Get it now!
☐ Life is not complete without this game!

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This is game is a classic! I love this game, it's part of my childhood!

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fun times, a little too real with covid but fun game

Man I love when Greenland closes all its borders and they remain the sole survivors of the whole world

As maddeningly random as the original Flash game, only now it's Greenland instead of Madagascar that'll drive you crazy.

The game is what you would expect and I like it because of the replayability [I kinda suck tho]

Awesome game, I keep coming back to it to see if I can complete the missions faster.

Plague Inc is a classic mobile game, fun timewaster, and gem of the play store. So, of course, it's likely to be a bad game on Steam and better on phone.

Happy to say this: it's not. Plague Inc. Evolved features tons of new content, including a new "Cure" DLC that lets you play as the WHO and try to stop a disease while pushing back potential riots and enforce a lockdown. More content includes tons of fun scenarios, lots of customization for your game, and generally just a better experience from the one you might be used to.

Don't be fooled, this IS the same game you have on your phone, and it IS free on Android with ads. But for a $10 package with more content? This is great, well worth the investment.

Perfect mix of fun and wanting to rip my hair out. Awesome if you want to fuel your evilest, intrusive thoughts or give yourself an anxiety attack about the realistic possibility of your disease becoming real. 10/10

Pretty fun game and is definitely a better version of that from the app store. I would recommend getting this only when it's on a discount however, but that shouldn't be a problem since it seems like this game is usually on one anyway.

genuinely one of the best strategy games with great devs who care about both game and the community.
gotta fix some borders though...

first its hard to bring all to their death. afterwards only your earned points and your fun is increasing. however, if one like mankind or not. fantastic game. even if one tries to cure that scumy mankind, which destroys her spaceship.

this game is worth it... if only they added stupid special plagues to the cure mode!!!!1.
seriously, its kind of a hard game. i bought it on console and now on pc. this game make you spend hours of your life trying to find a strategy to win with a plague or cure team.

Great game, very nostalgic for me. Instead of monetizing tons of small things for DLC's, they feature workshop creations in posts. Good game, good price, lots of playtime available.

Its sooooooooooooooooooooooo much fun especially the zombie virus, my favorite. Pravus Gaming on YT guided me through this. 10/10

very fun game to try and use diffrent strategies for tiffrent cinds of plauges very fun game

Remember when you were a bacteria trying to ruin everyone’s day?
Now you’re a fungus. Or a bio-weapon. Or a brain parasite.
Welcome to Plague Inc: Evolved – same chaos, but with 3D graphs and even more ways to end the world.

This game is strategy meets evil genius fantasy. You design your perfect disease, watch it spread, and outsmart global scientists trying to stop you.
But the real thrill? Seeing Canada panic while you're just chilling in West Africa, evolving diarrhea.

The Evolved version adds awesome stuff: scenarios, multiplayer, disease types, and some seriously dark “what if” experiments.

✅ Still dangerously fun
✅ More content, more strategies, more world-ending goodness
✅ Watching countries crumble never gets old
❌ Greenland still too OP
❌ You will start saying "symptom combo" in your sleep

Final Verdict:
11/10 – Now in HD, with extra doom.

this game was amazing, ten out of ten. would recommend. singleplayer is fun, but i tried multiplayer this year, was really amazing just not many people online. please play game.; yes.

This game has so much potential and is super fun for a single player game
so awesome

This game is great! It's REALLY challenging and you have to be really daring to win. It's really awarding to win, like you really deserve it. I recommend it for psychos, because who in the right mind would put themselves through this much pain, just to win some random online game?

It's a decent strategy game.
But not very complicated
At least, not until you unlock some of the later outbreaks or are aiming for certain achievements.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

i love this game. very fun you get to infect the world. you can evolve your disease to increace your infectivity.

Plague Inc is a wonderful solo and multi player game where you get to be humanity grates enemy, itself.
Go as a virus, fungus, bacteria, and more. Use your innate mutation skills to trick humanity to think that you are just a common cold.
You can choose what scenario you would like to play and the game itself is easy to understand. You can even crate your own scenario and names for your plague.
Struggle to not only whip out humanity, but beat your fellow germ in a race agents the cure in multi player.
Very fun and a little close to home. Bring your bleach, unless your germ is one step ahead of the game already.

The only fun strategy game imo. (I don't like the genre very much)

fun to play who is able to infect the fastest

As someone that played a lot of Plague Inc on mobile, this is a more developed and more graphically pleasing to play! I love infecting the world, MWAHAHAHAHA! (Of course I mean in the game)

Highly recommended! It's great fun, passes time nicely and offers challenges when it comes to eliminating human life before your infection is cured. It has many different types of infection and different difficulties which satisfies those who just want a quick and easy casual game and those who want to battle people that avoid contact and have regular doctor visits, thus making the game even harder.

fun and interesting mechanics but can feel either impossible or stupidly easy at times. though to be fair seems like a ridiculously hard kind of game to balance, im not sure exactly what i would change. solid fun for the price

This is game is a classic. For those who don't know, this it is based off of a 2007 flash game called Pandemic. Plague inc builds off of that game's mechanics and adds lots of new senarios and diseases to play. Lots of fun

I played this game on mobile when it first came out and pandemic before that. For those that enjoy some quick strat games this is pretty fun with the different modes increasing playability.

lol. im upset that it didnt save my 3 hour creation, but its whatever :) just make sure to save every little part.

i like it cause its beter than the last one. the last one was hard to finishd and boring cause there were no chalenges. but this game gave me the slites hope to finaly kill the world

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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it's fun and i have played it on phone console and wanted to play for pc easy to level

Fun game that's always a great way to pass time. Some what challenging with some strategy but not too investing. Really enjoy it and have been coming back to it for years.

This game masterfully blends strategy with unexpected surprises. The difficulty is well-balanced—challenging yet accessible. With flexible and diverse approaches to gameplay and a certain degree of randomness, every match feels fresh.The gameplay is incredibly fun—this time, you're not fighting alongside humans but instead leading a legion of bacteria, figuring out how to torment humanity as much as possible~

The game delivers a highly immersive experience. You need to formulate different invasion strategies based on the unique characteristics of each country. As the game progresses, constant adjustments to your strategy are necessary to adapt to the evolving situation. As players, we have ample room for exploration, and through trial and error, we gradually gain experience, eventually forming our own understanding and unique playstyle.

It is worth mentioning that the game is the abundance of humorous text, packed with unexpected jokes and references. It’s a perfect blend of strategic challenge and casual entertainment~

The balance between scientific accuracy and gameplay is also well-executed. While enjoying the game, players get a dose of epidemiology knowledge, which, in a way, helps raise awareness of hygiene habits—yes, don’t forget to wash your hands!

Years ago, I had the opportunity to experience the mobile port of this game, and it left a deep impression on me. Revisiting it after all these years, I still find it to be a highly polished, brilliantly designed strategy game that’s both meaningful and worth exploring in detail.

That said, there are a few areas that could be improved:
- Some inaccuracies in the world map (e.g., North and South Korea being merged into one, Mongolia and China appearing as a single entity).
- The overall pace of multiplayer mode is a bit too fast, leaving too limited time for planning and decision-making.

However, I don’t see these as flaws, as the brilliance of this game easily outshines them.

Finally, to quote the developers from their Steam annual review:
"We sincerely wish this game had nothing to do with reality, but unfortunately, reality had other plans."

🦠 Plague Inc: Evolved – The Ultimate Game of Global Destruction

Ever wanted to wipe out humanity with a custom-engineered supervirus? Plague Inc: Evolved lets you do just that, blending strategy, simulation, and a dark sense of humor into an addictively challenging experience. It’s a simple concept: evolve your disease, spread across the globe, and outsmart the world’s best scientists before they find a cure.

☣️ Gameplay: Infect, Mutate, Dominate

You start with a single infected patient and must spread your disease worldwide while adapting to different climates, government responses, and random events. Choosing the right traits—symptoms, transmission methods, and resistances—is key to staying ahead of evolving countermeasures. Every game plays out differently, making each outbreak a unique puzzle to solve.

🧪 Strategy: More Than Just Clicking Buttons

At first, Plague Inc. seems simple—infect the world, kill everyone. But as the AI fights back with quarantines, travel bans, and vaccine research, the real depth of the game kicks in. Do you keep your disease hidden until it’s too late to stop? Or do you go all-out with deadly symptoms early and risk detection?

🎨 Graphics & Sound: Minimal but Effective

The world map is sleek and functional, with red infection zones spreading satisfyingly across the globe. The UI is clean, and the background news updates provide a fun mix of real-world logic and absurd events. The eerie soundtrack and ambient sound effects add to the tension as humanity scrambles to survive.

⚖️ Final Verdict: 9/10 – A Morbidly Fun Masterpiece

Plague Inc: Evolved is a brilliant mix of strategy and dark humor that makes global annihilation weirdly satisfying. Whether you’re casually experimenting with new disease types or pushing your skills to the limit in brutal difficulty, there’s always a reason for “one more round.” Just don’t be surprised if you start eyeing sneezing coworkers with suspicion afterward.

Surprisingly replayable. There are so many different ways to end humanity!

Played this on mobile. PC version is a nice upgrade.

I've been playing for about 3 hours and just finished Neurax Worm on Brutal. I'm trying to unlock all the genes before I attempt Mega-Brutal.

The difficulty of the game when playing on normal feels like I'm playing on hard, and it doesn't make sense at all. This was not the case when the game was initially released for mobile devices back in the days...

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☑ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Normal difficulty doesn't even make sense, it feels like hard difficulty.
too boring, I regret buying this game honestly

I've got mixed feelings on the game. You're supposedly able to take routes such as sneaking under the radar and then subtly killing absolutely everyone, or developing lethal symptoms to increase infectivity significantly at the cost of letting your virus's presence be known far sooner. Going under the radar DOES NOT WORK. I have played this game on mobile since it was first released ages ago, and it used to work. But then this began to happen and so thought maybe it was a bug, but it's the exact same on here. I cannot kill absolutely ANYONE if I only focus on transmission and thwarting cure progress. Which is another thing I've noticed; deciding to put points into slowing cure research does NOTHING. I have tested this on full lethal/transmission playthroughs and the progress fills up just as fast regardless. Not to mention cure progress is NEVER slowed until there's severely small survivor count. Even when a whole funding country is dead the cure progress carries on as normal. I want to enjoy the game, it has potential, but in it's current state you can only really win if you play the same exact strat over and over.

It's just incredible.
Scenarios add tons of variation to the game, with users being able to make their own and share them with mobile, console, and Steam players.
Highly recommend, 10/10.

The game itself is fantastic, but multiplayer is plagued with bots. They're easy to spot by checking their games played and win/loss ratio, and they make it nearly impossible to win. If you run into one, just exit and find another opponent.

Other than that, an epic game!

not fun to get 100% infected, and then have a net worth of 1 dna point to spend on Lethality, maybe im doing something wrong, maybe im impatient, but holy fuck is it not fair to lose from them going all in on a cure for essentially a slightly worse common cold, and then once they reach 100%, its completely unrealistic that they would have enough to get it out as fast as they did, and as widespread as they do. its pure bs that even on casual, the 100% cure is an instantaneous loss because of the fact you dont get any dna points in the late/end game, so unless you wait, and save, or invest early, you lose.