Symptoms of Infection

A very short game, in its current state it feels more like a demo rather than an early access. It's got some nice ideas that it executes very well and it pulls off its horror theme without being too in your face about it. Symptoms can change overtime while you're currently looking at a patient. First time they look fine, then you double check on them and they've now suddenly changed. Makes the unknown horror a little bit more unknown and unsettling. Three things I actually disliked about the game other than the length, one is the fact that you cannot mess up the diagnosis. It's very scripted. All of the patients and symptoms are scripted and you will not be allowed to mark wrong things in your paper. Second thing that I disliked was you don't actually diagnose these people. You go through menus, click on a thing and the game immediately tells you if something's wrong. It'd be nicer to have a more in-depth tutorial with actual scenarios where you got to see these symptoms for yourself, and then the game would stop hand holding and cut all the "This patient has X" in the menus. Third thing was kind of infuriating rather than a dislike, the game has a saving feature that I didn't even know existed until I finished the game, it was in the pause menu and I didn't need to pause the game since things generally only moved once you did stuff, and pausing isn't necessarily a thing you get to do on shorter titles like these. It made it seem like there were multiple endings by giving you a few choices to make throughout it. I didn't realize this and when I got to the end, there were no saves for me to go back to, and the beginning of the game went through quite slowly, so I gave up trying to get the other endings. This game definitely deserves more attention, and it definitely has potential to be something better than it currently is.

The game is presented beautifully. However it needs to let players make decisions themselves. Diagnosing the patient requires no real effort when the game makes the observations for you.

I have to say, pretty good short horror game. I am excited to see what will be added in future, but the build is an interesting teaser. I really hope others support this for further development!

I like the style of the game and I understand the it is in early access, the only good content of the game is what is literally shown in the screenshots of the store page and its just at the start of the game, then I end up in a loop of the same 4 patients and kept getting an inconclusive result when testing them, I feel like i just wasted 1.4 hours of my life visiting 110 patients. I feel the game needs more diversity in the names of the patients because they keep being repeated, and more symptoms instead of just a cough and tremor, and more boxes to tick like if they have a fast heart rate or fast respirations, I also want to be able to get the answer wrong when ticking the boxes instead of it forcing me to get it right, and have some negative implications from that like more infected people showing up if i let an infected person out or something. The game needs some work, i really dont like how it just put me in a loop of the same few patients that i wasnt able to get conclusive test results for.

It is a travesty - NAY, a true injustice this game isn't more popular. This should be everywhere, dude. If the art style remotely interests you and you like body horror, this is an instant buy. Made my skin crawl, and I just want to keep playing to find things I'm sure I missed. I look forward to more. This is a true gem.

Tom Poe Tom Poe Tom Poe (All jokes aside, although it's length, it's a w game)

Pretty fine. For $3.50 I can't really say that it's bad, but there are way too many loose ends. I've beaten the game three times in my current play time (1.1hrs) and I have seen everything. The game just doesn't stick around long enough for any of the unexplained things to become interesting mysteries, they're just mysteries. Hopefully we will see more interesting things after early access, or they give us some answers.