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Pathogenic

You are a disease. Infect the human body as a lone pathogen in this cellular roguelike shooter. Collect organelles to evolve your parasite in a microscopic arms race against your host's immune system. Conquer a beautiful, procedurally generated world of tiny proportions.

Developer
Aberrant Labs
Publisher
Slug Disco
Franchise
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Release date
Jul 16, 2026
Store page updated
Sep 2, 2026
Price
$9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

82.3/ 100

Based on 451 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 91% of 686
All time 😄 Very Positive 93% of 4,261
“fun and worth the money at $10 price point”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.56
Strategy +2.64
“complex hidden mechanics with special symbols and key items” (77)
剧透一下，确实有大脑关卡和隐藏结局，具体进入方法有点复杂。。。首先你要知道每个关卡都有“？”标志的隐藏房间，对着偏远房间的墙壁攻击就有可能找到隐藏房间，进入隐藏房间后，有一段带有特殊符号的墙壁，重点来了：在隐藏房间的特殊墙壁旁，依次按下小键盘的→↑↓↑→←，会扣一滴血并开启一个新房间，拿到关键道具化学感受器天线，然后其他关卡中化学感受器天线会指引你找到隐藏房间，还是按照上述方法找到特殊道具，最后打败心脏boss后，在那段特殊符号的墙壁边，依次填入拿到的特殊道具，就会开启大脑关卡，大脑关卡中每个房间都是boss。。。 另外说明下，致癌前缀的表示会随着时间会将所有武器或器官都变成同一种，长效前缀表示无法卸下，短生前缀表示经过几个房间后就会自动销毁

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Story & World
+1.88
World +3.33

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Content Volume
+1.64
Replayability +3.45
“roguelike structure with varied builds creates replayability” (33)

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Visuals & Sound
+3.84
Visuals +3.76
“graphics are nice, colored, vibrant” (60)

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Multiplayer
+2.62

Not enough data — only 3% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +2.23

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Fairness
-0.84
Balance -2.83
“balance is poor, runs feel feast or famine” (42)

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Tech & Ops
+0.48
Developer support +1.12

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update
60%70%80%90%100%
Jul 16, 2026Sep 17, 2026
Reviews
per day · 674 reviews, peak 35/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 446 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English57%
  • Chinese19%
  • Russian7%
  • Japanese5%
  • Spanish2%
  • Korean2%
  • Other8%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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