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So, now is your time.
You’ve got no excuse.
This winter, you’re sitting down and playing Pathologic 2.
No pain no gain
Pathologic isn’t scary, it’s unsettling.
Deeply, deeply unsettling.
On the surface, it’s a survival horror and resource management game about a plague.
The problem is threefold.
In short, you’ve got yourself some serious pressure.
More, in fact, than Artemy can handle.
But itisworth persevering with.
Pathologic 2 is a deeply unusual and uncomfortable game.
You’re deposited in a culture that feels so jarringly alien, yet you know it to be familiar.
These are humans, certainly.
They’re speaking English, yes.
The terrain and climate resemble Earth, sure.
But a primal part of your brain keeps insisting that these assumptions are wrong.
In this way, Pathologic 2 is possibly the most life-like survival game I’ve ever played.
Min-maxing won’t serve you here.
The world ends whether you’re in it or not.
But Pathologic does something that games so rarely do: it treats you with respect.
Pathologic 2 is, at its heart, a deeply honest game.
Artemy doesn’t possess any special combat powers or superhuman abilities.
You are not the main character of Pathologic 2, you merely live inside it.
You don’t have time for everything.
You’ll have to sacrifice someone.
However hard you work, the town works twice as hard in the opposite direction.
Its rivers are polluted with blood, and the innocent pay the price.
There is no hope here, why would there be?
The town is crammed with personalities, legacies, myths, superstition, and mysteries.
it’s possible for you to’t break into someone’s house and loot their cupboards without consequence.
Even performing your job as a surgeon could turn the town against you if you neglect their religious practices.
Sometimes, when you die, you lose the ability to hug others.
Occasionally, you’ll find cotton wool instead of organs during an autopsy.
You bend to the rules of this world it willneverbend to you.
All of this to say: don’t miss the chance to play as Artemy in Pathologic 2.
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