In a world where the fascination of a zombie outbreak is now currently huge do to mainstream media, Plague Inc: Evolved is the game for you if you want to simulate your own outbreak.
Solid strategy & simulation game honestly. It feels a bit strange saying this but just "destroying humanity" in this game feels like a feat that I really shouldn't celebrate. You can be a disease or be the cure (addon like a DLC) & the different types of diseases are each very different and affects the gameplay completely which I find great. From a basic virus which rapidly evolves to a zombie-like virus which causes the dead to become alive with a click of a button. A different type of game than what I'm used to but it's still very fun!
The gameplay is complex and interesting, with a range of difficulties which range from easily accessible to completely unreasonable and it's startling how effectively the simple presentation can evoke a whole range of emotions.
This is simply a slightly better version of its source material, which means it's a difficult, complex, illness-themed strategy game with a lot to thrash out. So, still pretty great.
Plague Inc: Evolved is a fun strategy game. Also on PC and console it amuses and entertains, despite the gameplay highlights, more than once, its handheld origins.
Fun & satisfying, but fundamentally very simplistic and a bit exploitable. It is helped by the variety of available plagues, but the gameplay loop stays the same.
It's a pretty good strategy game.
Plague Inc: Evolved has you making your own disease to destroy the world. As you slowly infect and kill humans, you gain DNA points to upgrade your disease, and it can get difficult to either make it kill, or make it hard to cure. Speaking of curing, that's the hardest part about this game, preventing a cure. Popping the cure bubbles doesn't really do much, so if you're low on DNA points and the cure research is 75%, you might as well start over. It's a really fun game, having so much replay value, and difficulty even on Normal mode. (Seriously, this game is hard. I'm still stuck on the Fungus.) It's easy to get bored quickly, as the game takes a while to even get the first notification that your disease did something, but it's a great strategy game, and I definitely recommend this game if you're thinking about getting it.
Plague Inc: Evolved gets a 7/10.
Pretty much trash, but looking at the game it's pretty much what you can expect. People here call it a great "strategy game" even though it is incredibly shallow when it comes to that. You control the spread through how you develop your disease, but in the end a lot of it comes down to luck and basically doing the same thing over and over. The different strains could have kept it interesting but the developers were too lazy to actually make them all that different. So the replayability people mentioned is basically doing the same thing over and over again, and watching how it spreads this time. Then again if you're calling this game a "good" or "interesting" strategy game, or a strategy game at all, this is probably great replayability for you.
SummaryCan you infect the world? Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself. Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation.