Pathogenic

Gameplay is fun (Though fairly difficult in my experience). There's already some awesome mods out, adding in entirely new infections and organelles to try. Soundtrack is really amazing, and is thematically tied to the organ you're attacking. Same goes for the levels themselves too, each one feels extremely appropriate for the organ you're attacking. Visuals are quite pretty, though like all bullet-hells, once things become truly chaotic, you basically lose track of who you are in the sea of enemies. Lastly, and while this may sound like a small detail, it's honestly one of my favourite aspects: There's tonnes of microbiological facts and references in the game, which is so incredibly cool to see.

During gameplay, the game frequently experiences sudden and severe lag, and I can't figure out what is causing it. I'm playing on a gaming laptop, and I don't have this issue with any of the other games I play. I really hope these performance issues can be optimized soon, as the lag seriously affects the overall gaming experience. That said, I genuinely like the concept of the game. I would describe it as a roguelite version of *Spore*, and I think it's a lot of fun. I'm only leaving a negative review for now so that the development team can see and hopefully address this issue. Once the performance problems are improved, I'll be more than happy to change my review back to positive.

This game may actually kill me due to sleep deprivation.

Pathogenic is a fun, strategic, challenging, and flavorful roguelike and has been my favorite twin-stick shooter I've played so far. At this point I've beaten the game on the hardest difficulty with various characters, and am just working on grinding out some of the achievements, so I think I am reasonably qualified at this point to write a review. Gameplay so far has been wonderful, with the main strength being the build system. Roguelikes live and die by their item systems and this is one of the best ones I've played with so far. The way that the various organelles affect each other makes optimizing your builds a fun and challenging gameplay loop and leads to me constantly finding weird new interactions where I go "no way, this works like that?" The enemies are fairly standard, with the most interesting enemies IMO being in the early game, as the lategame ones tend to rely more on spamming as many hitboxes out as possible. Though the stage hazards do become increasingly complex which is nice. The bosses are consistently well-designed and interesting, with the heart boss being particularly great, I love how it syncs with the music. It's also reasonably dodgeable in phase 1, though phase 2 is...questionable without some bullet-deleting tech. Theming is also cute, I study immunology by profession so of course I love the biological references. Stage design is visually appealing and distinct, with the heart being a stand-out for the music and theming. I do think it's funny how many other pathogens we kill -- at some point I felt I was doing this guy a favor. But the devs clearly did their homework, I definitely chuckled to myself when I went into the Liver boss room for the first time to be greeted by a very angry Kupffer cell. The only prominent issue with this game only really becomes apparent once you are very experienced with it, which tends to be an issue with many roguelikes and that is that putting together game-breaking builds is very easy. Basically, you just try to make as many interconnected internal slots as possible and then stock up on attack infusers (or a chromatophore laser with some good mutations), and very quickly will reach the point where you hit an enemy once and the entire screen is filled with particles. I have a very vague understanding of what any of the enemies in the final levels even do (outside of the bosses which have an armor system to not get one shot), because usually by the time I reach these levels I shoot a few times randomly and the room is instantly cleared. Overall this game is wonderful, it's worth far more than its 10 dollar asking price and I would 100% recommend picking it up. Great idea and execution, and I really hope that more content or DLC gets added in future patches because there is still a ton of space to explore, the immune system is wonderfully complex and can be an endless source of creative inspiration.

Ich habe die Demo gesuchtet. Ihr spielt eine einzelne Amöbe, Virus, Bakterie oder ein Pilz, die sich in einem menschlichen Körper befindet und diesen, nun ja, infiziert. Jeder Keim bringt seine Vor- und Nachteile mit sich. Dabei steuert ihr euer Keim, wie ein Raumschiff, dass Erfahrung in Form von DNA und euch mit unterschiedlichen Buff´s und Waffen ausstatten könnt. Und hier ist die große Stärke von Pathogenic. Du kannst die Form deines Keimes ändern. Zusätzliche "Geschütz"-Armee wachsen lassen. Oder z.B deine Cooldown oder die Stärke mit internen Kernen verbessern. Einzelne Elemente lassen sich so beliebig verknüpfen oder umverknüpfen, auch nachdem du ein Upgrade bekommen hast. Das hat ein großen strategischen Wert und ist bisher einmalig in diesem Genre ohne kompliziert zu werden. Dabei mutiert euer Keim immer weiter, wird robuster, stärker oder wird ggf. auch größer. Euer Feind sind z.B Antikörper. Die Gegner und Waffenvielfallt ist üppig und ich habe meinen Spaß mit dem rumexperimentieren meines "Schiffes". Die Steuerung ist sehr präzise und smoooooth. Die Musik bzw. der Sound sehr passend und begleitend. Fazit: Pathogenic ist ein Top-Down Shooter, der allen gefallen wird, der auch mit Binding of Isaac oder vielmehr mit Enter the Gungeon seine Freude hatte. Pathogenic wirkt auf mich aber bei weiten entspannter und angenehmer als EtG. Und was man hier für aktuell 7,99€ bekommt, werdet ihr viele Stunden eure Freude haben. Es macht einfach spaß durch den Körper zu fliegen. Klare Kaufempfehlung.

希望开放创意工坊。。

Absolute gem of a game, one of the most entertaining roguelikes I've played in a long time. The game has so many accurate references to the human body which is super cool, there's so much item variation and by tandem build variation that replayability is endless. Without a doubt recommend checking it out!