Developer: Ice-Pick Lodge
Publisher: TinyBuild
Release: Out today
On: Windows
From: Steam
Price: 27.80/$35/ 30
Pathologic 2 is cursed. And me too, because I m saddled with reviewing the follow-up to a cult favourite. Pathologic was a first-person plague doctor simulator that was badly broken and refreshingly unusual. Depending on your sensibilities, you ll be glad to learn that this reboot is also a godforsaken mess littered with interesting ideas, none of which will be appreciated because it is hobbled by a pervasive crappiness. After only nine hours, I m on day three of a twelve-day story and my character is dying. I m infected, I m starving, and I m exhausted. This isn t a description of a tough-but-interesting time I m having in a bleak world. It s a reference to the three meters in the corner of my screen (infection, exhaustion, hunger) which have convinced me that, despite a townload of spookiness and intrigue, those nine hours are more than enough. Thanks, Pathologic 2, but no thanks.