Ice-Pick Lodge · HypeTrain Digital
Hello everyone! This is Alexander Souslov, producer at Ice-Pick Lodge and game designer of Pathologic 3. The studio has been quiet for a while. We needed a moment to catch our breath. The team had no New Year holidays, and frankly, no vacations at all while working on the game's
Hi, friends! Update #6 is out. This time we tuned several noticeable things at once: improved a bunch of Mind Palaces , made the interface more flexible (all the way up to toggling the HUD with a single button), added more menu sounds — and yes, we updated the door sound when lea
Hi, friends! Update #5 is here. We continue to methodically knock the weirdness out of the game: broken decrees and busted quests, doors that shouldn’t be open, districts you suddenly can’t enter, and other adventures in system logic. And we’ve finally admitted the obvious: there
What is the butterfly effect? It’s a concept from chaos theory: in complex systems, even a tiny event can have unpredictable and huge consequences—somewhere else, at a different time. All of Pathologic 3 is about that effect: we plastered the whole game with butterflies and moths
Hi, friends! We’re done with Hotfix #11. Most of these changes are about frustration: someone was giving out an unnecessary map marker, someone wasn’t showing up when you expected them, somewhere there was a fence that wasn’t supposed to be there. Now it’s all in the past: everyo
Hi, friends! Hotfix #10 is here. In this one, we fixed a few particularly noticeable oddities (like those soldiers in front of the Town Hall), made streamer mode a bit clearer, improved the Casebook UI — and patched up a number of quest and geometry issues. And yes… we fixed Geor
Hi, friends! Hotfix #9 is here. This time we tackled recipe distribution logic for the child traders, added clearer explanations for a few contentious story situations (that looked like bugs), introduced new tutorials — and, of course, shipped a batch of quest/technical fixes tha
Hi, friends! This is our third major patch. Crucial bits: a lot of fixes to the late-game rations quest and—finally—the ability to ENABLE LARGE DIALOGUE FONT . Also: we sorted out the Haruspex’s English voice, fixed a bunch of inconsistencies, mowed the grass, and made the curbs
Hi, friends! Hotfix #8 is here! This time we tackled a few important things — from the Stamatins’ performance state on Day 11 and one of the endings, to making sure Eva appears where she was always supposed to. And, of course: Thoughts, markers, “Mind Palaces,” dialogues, and hig
Hi, friends! The second major patch (not a hotfix) is out. We’re continuing to bring quest logic, UI, visuals, and a whole bunch of “little things” back into shape — and in a game like this, little things suddenly turn out to be not so little. Key Highlights After numerous (three
Hi, friends! Hotfix #7 is here. In this one, we removed a particularly annoying sound effect, fixed a couple of important story bottlenecks (including ones that could break endings), and we continue our methodical campaign against T-poses and unnatural merging. Patch Notes: (Impo
Hi, friends! We have a tradition: after every release, we give out ice picks (real, physical ice picks, heavy and made of metal) to everyone who helped get the game out the door and doesn’t have one yet. Yesterday, our newest team members also gained the ability to commit politic
Hi, friends! This is the game’s first update! Yep — not a hotfix, but a full-on patch. It includes everything we managed to polish up over the past week that didn’t make it into the hotfixes: critical progression blockers, quest and story logic, holes in UI and controls, plus a h
Hi, friends! It’s been a week since launch. Thank you for your support, your reviews, and all the bug reports. We haven’t had a weekend yet: over the past week we shipped 5 hotfixes, and today we’re planning our first major patch. After that, we’ll finally take a couple of days o
Hi, friends! A new hotfix is here. This time we tweaked several important systems (and a couple of things that were a bit too noticeable — in the most literal sense), and also tackled bugs in quest logic, achievements, and the UI. Patch Notes: (Incredibly important!) During inter
Hi, friends! Hotfix #4 is here. This time we took a particularly close look at story logic and quest states — the places where things used to behave… like a quantum object in the hands of a careless observer. Patch Notes: (Important!) Fixed the quantum uncertainty in Vlad the You
Hi, friends! Have you gotten used to daily hotfixes yet? Good — because we plan to keep this pace and tackle issues as quickly as we can. In this hotfix, we worked on story contradictions, an incorrect reset of hospital quests, and a couple of bugs that looked like they were adde
Hi, friends! Hotfix #2 is live. In this update, we’ve addressed several frequent (and frustrating) issues — including the traders at the Warehouses, a couple of moments in the Amalgam tutorial, and of course some story logic. Thanks for the reports: you’re really helping us find
Hi, friends! Thank you for the warm welcome — it means a lot to see your support, feedback, and discussions. Nothing quite compares to the feeling of watching you unravel the surprises, mysteries, ideas, and scenes we’ve been preparing for so long. We’re reading everything you sh
Hello, friends. We’ve wanted to say these words for so long — and you’ve wanted to hear them. So here it is: Pathologic 3 is out now! View game page Welcome to the Town-on-Gorkhon. Release trailer Release discount As we mentioned before, a 20% launch discount is available for the