Pathogenic

This game may actually kill me due to sleep deprivation.

Hades, только ты глист. 10/10

Great game at first, and then you realize there's 0 balance : i manage to have 3 times +40 damages, +40 attack speed with less than two green hearts, i have +300% damage on my 4 weapons that dont use sugar : mobs are still tanks with a litteral gattling that does 200+ damage per hit. Scalling mob hp feels like a lie, i guess it's what it is. And the lung area : total ♥♥♥♥, you get sucked into bomb in very small rooms, you pop into a room with a mob on you in less than half a second later. The game feels great and should be. But balance feels like sh*t...

As a gamer, tech professional and healthcare researcher, I have to say that this game is a work of art. Absolutely incredible.

I wasn't expecting to become emotionally invested in the life of a microscopic parasite, yet here we are. Pathogenic takes the "one more run" formula and injects it directly into your bloodstream. The concept is brilliant: you play as the disease, harvesting organelles from defeated enemies, evolving into increasingly absurd biological monstrosities, and waging war against the immune system. It's basically what would happen if Spore's cell stage, The Binding of Isaac, and a biology textbook decided to make a roguelike together. The build variety is fantastic. Every run feels like an experiment that somehow spirals into controlled chaos, and discovering broken synergies is half the fun. The soft-body visuals make everything feel satisfyingly organic, the soundtrack fits perfectly, and the different organs each have their own personality and challenges. What really impressed me is how polished it feels. The controls are responsive, progression is rewarding, and it's the kind of game where you tell yourself "just one more run" and suddenly it's 2 AM and you've accidentally become the apex predator of someone's circulatory system. For an indie title, this is an incredible achievement. It's creative, addictive, surprisingly charming, and packed with replayability. If you enjoy roguelikes, bullet heavens, or just like discovering hilariously overpowered builds, this is an easy recommendation. 10/10. My immune system now feels personally offended every time I launch the game.

Uhhh yeah so I was actually supposed to do productive things today… bought this after seeing NL playing it. The entire day is now ruined, I played it for 9 hours straight. I don’t regret it.

Absolute gem of a game, one of the most entertaining roguelikes I've played in a long time. The game has so many accurate references to the human body which is super cool, there's so much item variation and by tandem build variation that replayability is endless. Without a doubt recommend checking it out!