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Pathogenic is a top-down roguelike shooter where you control a customizable lone pathogen infecting a human host. Read the full article here:
Hi Parasites! We're back with a new update! This time the focus is mostly on balancing. We've been combing through all your feedback here on Steam and on our Discord reporting channels, and we noticed a few organelles and mutations performing far better than intended due to how t
Hey Parasites! Thursday July 30 marked the second week since Pathogenic launched and the end of our launch sale. Thanks to all of your support, these two weeks couldn’t have gone any better. We are truly grateful for everyone playing Pathogenic and sharing your thoughts on the ga
Hey Parasites! Pathogenic just passed 100k copies sold! Thank you so much for your support that helped us reach this massive milestone in less than a week after launch. Now for the more important thing of today: Pathogenic just got a new update with a series of rebalancing, optim
Hey Parasites! A MASSIVE thanks to all of you for such an incredible launch weekend! Seeing everyone playing our microscopic shooter and giving us so many kind comments and feedback these last few days really felt like a fever dream (or maybe the pathogen solved the puzzle and go
Hey Parasites! Pathogenic has passed the 25,000 sales milestone within 24 hours after launch! On top of that, our cellular roguelike shooter has reached 3,000+ peak concurrent player count. These are incredible numbers for a game made by a humble dev team of two. The pathogen tru
Hey Parasites! View game page The Pathogen is out of the petri dish. Pathogenic 1.0 is OUT NOW. You are a disease, a lone parasite waging a desperate war against the immune system. Choose one of our 7 distinct pathogens and fight through 6 vibrant organs of the human body, each w
We've had some questions about the exact launch timing of the game tomorrow so we made this handy graph to let you know when the game will be available to purchase and play! Release Times 5am PDT 8am EDT 1pm BST 2pm CEST 8pm CST 9pm KST 9pm JST 12am NZT Official Soundtrack and Ar
Hey Parasites! Just want to give everyone an update: Pathogenic's demo will go offline 2 hours later than announced, at UTC 17:00 today . If you want to do one last run before launch, there's still time! While we're sad to see the demo go, the wait won't be long. We are only two
Hey Parasites! Pathogenic has reached 100,000 wishlists!!!🥳 Thank you so much for supporting Pathogenic! The infection is spreading fast, and reaching this absolutely MASSIVE milestone means so much to us! We can't ask for a more passionate community to get us this far. Every re
A heads-up to all our fellow parasites: the Pathogenic demo will be taken offline on July 14th 15:00 UTC, exactly two days before launch. We’ve contemplated this decision for a while. Seeing everyone enjoying the demo so much and sharing all the crazy builds has been a big part o
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that Matt, developer and composer of Pathogenic will be in conversation with Hei Man from Slug Disco, Pathogenic's publisher, tonight at 6pm BST! Thanks to all the submissions from our Discord community, we have quite a long list of inter
Hey Parasites! We are going into Next Fest with an update! Invade the human body with the shapeless Amoeba, experiment with new organelles, and more! New Pathogen: Amoeba The Amoeba is our latest playable pathogen in the demo. Unlike other parasites, it has no defining shape – li
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Hey Parasites! Pathogenic is in Bullet Fest now! Play the Pathogenic demo in Steam's Bullet Fest as a lone parasite, and fight the bullet hell by becoming a bullet hell yourself. Build broken combos, and obliterate the immune system with the ultimate pathogen. With more than 75,0
The action in Pathogenic looks awesome, and playing as a lone parasite fighting against the immune system sounds pretty cool too. Read the full article here:
ATTENTION PARASITES!!! Pathogenic is officially launching on 16 Jul 2026!!! That's right, we have a release date! Check out our new trailer, featuring gameplay in new levels with new organelles coming soon to the full game: The Lungs and Heart will be completing our full set of v
Hey Parasites! Throughout the past month, we’ve been making a lot of progress with the new levels and organelles for the full game. We don’t have a demo update for you just yet, as we are deep inside the human heart, mapping out the maze of arteries. What we do have, though, is a
Hey Parasites! Just want to let you guys know that we don’t have an update to Pathogenic's demo today, as we’ve been busy developing new content for the Lungs and Heart in the full game. That said, with all the work on the new levels, we’re really excited to share what’s going on
Hi Parasites! Hope you are enjoying the new battles with the Adaptive Immune System! We’ve received a lot of your feedback since the last patch, and today’s update will be focusing on addressing these concerns with a wide range of improvements on UX and gameplay balance. Evolutio