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Pathologic 2

Horror

Thriller

Survival

Drama

Open world

Mystery

Role-playing (RPG)

Adventure

Indie

Pathologic 2 is a reimagining of the original, focused on the Haruspex, Artemy Burakh. You return to your plague-stricken hometown as a surgeon-healer caught between local kinship traditions, colonial urban power, impossible medicine, hunger, exhaustion, and a clock that never stops. Compared with the 2005 game, it is more mechanically coherent and cinematic, but still intentionally punishing: you are meant to triage, fail, compromise, and live with irreversible consequences.

3.8

External Ratings

99 ratings
Release Date:

23 May, 2019

Last Updated:

21 Jun, 2026

About this game

Pathologic 2 is a reimagining of the original, focused on the Haruspex, Artemy Burakh. You return to your plague-stricken hometown as a surgeon-healer caught between local kinship traditions, colonial urban power, impossible medicine, hunger, exhaustion, and a clock that never stops. Compared with the 2005 game, it is more mechanically coherent and cinematic, but still intentionally punishing: you are meant to triage, fail, compromise, and live with irreversible consequences.

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platform

Platforms:

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4

release date

Release Date:

23 May, 2019

mode

Modes:

Single player

theme

Themes:

Horror, Thriller, Survival, Drama, Open world, Mystery

genre

Genres:

Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie

perspective

Player Perspectives:

First person

IGDB

IGDB Website:

Pathologic 2

IGDB Rating

4.5 ;
IGDB User Rating

4.5

User Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

94

User Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

90%

Rating %

Critics Rating

3.8 ;
IGDB User Rating

3.8

Critics Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

99

Critics Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

76%

Critics Rating %

Main Developers

Ice-Pick Lodge

Supporting Developers

-

Publishers

tinyBuild

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