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author: Darius Matusiak

Pathologic 2. Games to emotionally shatter you

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Genre: survival adventure

Developer: Ice-Pick Lodge

Release date: May 23, 2019

Pathologic 2 is one of the hardest games you can play. According to some, it's even more difficult than Dark Souls. The challenge is both in combat, as well as in survival mechanics, or the constant pressure of running out of time. The second layer of Pathologic 2's difficulty concerns the choices we have to make, the stalemates that we find ourselves in every now and then. In the game, we play a young doctor who comes to an uninviting town. One of the tasks is to uncover the mystery of his father's murder, but a deadly plague is spreading around the town, taking its toll among the inhabitants.

With only 12 days to do everything, we constantly have to decide whom and how to heal, get food, drink and secure the rest of needs. Should you trade with the townspeople or steal from them if there's no other option? Use weapons to your advantage or sell them to buy food? In fact, everything in Pathologic 2 is designed to ensure that we do not feel comfortable and can't control the situation. We are always in dire straits, either struggling with tangible problems or with our own conscience. There's never a moment of respite, for some peace of mind.

  1. Pathologic 2 in our encyclopedia

Darius Matusiak

Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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