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Pathologic 2
Developer Ice-Pick Lodge
Pathologic 2 (Russian: Мор, romanized: Mor, IPA: [mˈor], lit. 'Pestilence') is a 2019 horror-themed role-playing game developed by Ice-Pick Lodge and published by tinyBuild. Pathologic 2 was originally conceived of as a remake of the developer's earlier 2005 video game Pathologic, but during development grew to encompass a much greater scope. The game has variously been described as a remake, a reboot and a… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
327 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
86
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196 positive · 32 negative
95% range 81–90%
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| Steam reviews | 196 | 32 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
11,214 of 12,238 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 327 · most liked firstAfter 5 years of posting, I've done it. I've come up with the least relatable post in the history of the world. This is for me and no one else: No horror video game will ever quite match the feeling I had as, while playing Stardew Valley just now, Pathologic 2 auto-launched in the background
unlabelledView post →Pathologic 2 (first third of a three-game remake) makes things clearer and doesn't allow for so much save-scumming, but is also more forgiving. More about building an atmosphere of helplessness that you have to mentally overcome. You're trying to save a village that REALLY doesn't want to be saved.
unlabelledView post →Pathologic 2 is most emphatically not for everyone. It's (just like its predecessor) initially difficult to grasp or appreciate, both mechanically and narratively speaking. Most people understandably don't have the time or patience to experience what Pathologic 2 has to offer. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's not by any means a customary game in the sense that it can be easily categorized. If I were to describe Pathologic 2 to someone who has never played it, I would be inclined to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An engrossing, surreal exploration of a strange town in the Russian steppe that I absolutely had no fun playing. By design. Its constantly stressful, you're mostly just walking around expect when you have to engage is the awkward combat, and its so difficult that you'll often have to repeat sections of it to make progress. This is the intended experience and its great because it will actually instill in you empathy and understanding for the people that inhabit the town and what their own lives…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you find yourself enjoying this game it probably means that you are finally a grown up who acquired above average taste and a god given attention span. Good job! Keep on doing that! - 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I help organize a game design retreat called Polaris... and a crop of design "papers" on four new topics has arrived! polarisgamedesign.com/reports/ I helped write this one abt how nurturers gonna nurture, so maybe we should help em, big props to Pathologic 2: polarisgamedesign.com/2023/game-de...
unlabelledView post →Huh. Pathologic 2 is neat. Held off for years thinking it was some HARD CORE HORROR kinda game, but no not at all? Like the world is deeply unpleasant and all that, and there's tension in choices and time passing I guess, but that's a very different thing that doesn't really bother me the same way.
unlabelledView post →This is that kind of game that buries you alive, but you crawl your way back out with new eyes for the world. The world inside and outside of the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If the main character, the author, or the reader is suffering, then it’s Russian literature. If the author, the main character, and the reader are all suffering, then it’s a classic of Russian literature. And Pathologic 2 is, as you guessed, a classic of Russian literature.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Almost everything in this bundle is both great and super cheap. £1.45 a game if you buy 7 or more. Amid Evil, Dusk, Stop Dead, Post Void, Sprawl and Hyper Demon are rad FPS games. The Dread X collections are fantastic indie 'cryptkeeper' style horror anthologies. Pathologic 2 is art-game hell, etc.
unlabelledView post →Art for @kuueater.com's Pathologic 2 streams, can't wait to catch up on them once I finish the game myself.
unlabelledView post →So after only 8 hours in, which is not very much AT ALL, I can definitely warn you of several things. This game is meant to elicit many negative feelings, and that's kind of the point. This game makes you a sarcastic but skilled doctor who walks through a town enveloping in disease. Every conversation and task feels like a stressful, confusing, tiring chore. However, despite all of this, it presents itself in a very unique way. Games can definitely qualify as art, and this is one of the games…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There must surely be dozens of us who have played both games; anyway Stardew Valley is a beautiful, wholesome game about running a farm in a small town and Pathologic 2 is a Russian psychological horror game about not surviving a plague
unlabelledView post →I can keep going too Every New Blood game Pathologic 2 Mount and Blade AtomRPG Troubleshooter WW1 Game Series (Verdun, Tannenburg) American Truck Sim Jagged Alliance 3 Art of Rally EYE Divine Cybermancy Dread Delusion Pacific Drive
unlabelledView post →I bought Balatro late Friday night and according to steam I've already logged 17 hours over the weekend. Man, this game is engaging. Could also be that after marathoning Pathologic 2 I just really needed something less stressful to decompress with.
unlabelledView post →Quantic Dream (Farenheit, Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human) spent the last 15 years trying to make art, but ended up making walking simulators. IcePick Lodge spent the last 20 years trying to make a walking simulator, but keeps ending up with the truest form of art.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →starting next wednesday evening, I am thinking of streaming one of my favourite games, Pathologic 2, because many friends of mine are interested in that game but not particularly interested in playing it themselves. if that is something you would like to watch, like this post
unlabelledView post →I'm of a firm opinion that no game needs a remake. Fixing up old games so that they can be played on modern systems - yes please. Remaking the same game but """better""" - no thanks, I'd rather see something original and new come out There are some exceptions like Pathologic 2 which is basically a remake but also a reimagining, but those are exceedingly rare.
unlabelledView post →This game is an ADHD simulator and worst nightmare all in one. There's a million things you have to do, with very little way to know what to prioritize and constantly getting distracted by new quests or finding items in trash cans or delicious egg. The roads are as confusing to navigate as possible and by the time you realize you forgot something important you need to pick up, you're already like halfway across town. And the clock is constantly ticking and you always feel like you're too late…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Lift is a new game from former Pathologic 2 devs that tasks the player with revitalizing and exploring a futuristic research base. In our limited hands-on time, it channels the tactile pleasures of handyman-style games, but with a narrative-focused twist.
unlabelledView post →ok the one I can talk about is when 3liza was playing Pathologic 2 and when she got to a (I think pivotal?) conversational point the game crashed so hard it basically bricked her console. haunted-ass game
unlabelledView post →What happens when you gather a bunch of philosophy majors and theater kids and tell them to make a bad game? You get Pathologic 2, a game that simultaneously insists upon its own bad design in the name of meaning, yet also implicitly asserts that it has none. I'll start with the redeeming qualities: P2 nails presentation, has SOME interesting dialogue, and has a mysterious world and lore that hook you from the start. That's it. I enjoy "stressful" games; games with stakes that punish losses…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In my first playthrough I was like a persistent rat daring its way through a dangerous street. Everywhere I went, I was met with disdain and death. It was only through trial and a lot of error, and a few deaths, that I managed to get to the end. It was not without the loss of many lives of the ones which I did not realize at the time meant the world to me. There was sometimes no right choice in the decisions I made, I would always wonder if I could have made a better choice In my second…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty sure that the fact that I consider this a 'comfort game' means I'm beyond the help of any therapist. And that's okay, I've made peace with that. Anyway I've been considering replaying it at 200% difficulty just to get the Full, True, 200% Authentic Artemy Burakh's Tormentous Nightmare™ experience. Patho classic just isn't cutting it. I miss my wife, Tails, I miss her a lot
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quick review from a Kickstarter backer from 2015. I thought the demo was awesome, but never got round to playing Pathologic2 as it turned out. Young kids made their arrivals and we are very careful about what is on the monitor for them to see. Ice Pick Lodge completed everything fine including a physical box-set. Reason for leaving a positive review is that today nearly TEN YEARS after that original pledge, they still remembered me and said thanks a second time and sent some Steam Keys for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More over, it's better to have a *political* framing device as a means of engaging with choice and consequence, rather than a moral one. Pathologic 2, in a game where the closest thing to a villain is a self-aware plague, everyone–even the scummiest motherfuckers–is fully humanized.
unlabelledView post →2021-2024 top track of the year playlists. Pathologic 2 vibes maintained, slow shift to more video game music, these are all tracks I had on repeat for days at a time.
unlabelledView post →I could write up a long, detailed essay on all the facets of this game i enjoyed, and how despite that the negative attributes to developers put in for the sake of 'artistic meaning' and giving the player some sense of real misery or whatever. But frankly after finishing the game (on the hardest difficulty as intended) i can just sum it up as this - I dedicated a serious amount of time in keeping every possible member of my bound alive who could be, and by some miracle actually managed to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pathologic or Pathologic 2. It's a game I actually love, but I've never been able to finish it, not because it's really horror,it's just creepy, but because the atmosphere and the designs of certain elements really unnerve me; it's so oppressive that it affects me more than horror games.
unlabelledView post →Pathologic 2 is a peak video game because it's about serious things like death and modernity but when you try to explain what you're actively doing it's like 'I'm stockpiling walnuts to trade to a little girl for a mix of random crushed up pills called a "shmowder"'
unlabelledView post →hello. this wednesday at approx 19:30 GMT I will begin streaming Pathologic 2 for anyone who does not particularly want to play that game but wants to know what it's about. it will be on www.twitch.tv/woodaba and I will upload vods to youtube later.
unlabelledView post →Pathologic 2 is my favorite game of all time and I put off playing 3 because I assumed it would be disappointing and that's on me for not having faith in the perfect genius of Icepick Lodge Incredible. Masterful. Exactly what I want out of a videogame. No notes
unlabelledView post →Pathologic 2 is one of those games that I would recommend to everyone, but not to anyone I know in real life. It is a work of artistic expression that the West has never really seen, especially at the level of quality and dedication to minute details. I cannot recommend it to people I know IRL because frankly Pathologic 2 is purely about the narrative first and how the world itself does not care about you, the player. It wants you to do the impossible, save everyone, but it knows you can't,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked the idea of this game more than I did the execution. The concept and atmosphere are totally unique and I really enjoyed the first couple of hours, exploring the town and taking in the mix of depressing realism with intriguing surrealist aspects. Unfortunately, once the plague broke out out, the game became basically unplayable for me. Even with the difficulty setting turned to "easy", I quickly got into an endless death spiral, and the game is far too slow-paced to restart from the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the best games ever made. A profoundly deep, extremely coherent, competent and immersive meditation on death and suffering in a form of masterfully written, gameplay creative, perfectly sound-designed, and brutally difficult, narrative driven survival game. An absolute must-play (even more so if you enjoy difficult games).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You know what? Already mid October and I haven't played a game yet. With Pokémon coming out in two days I made this harder for myself. I am honstly considering not doing Pathologic 2 as my spooky game 2025 anymore. Might play a Castlevania game instead to get back to the marathon goal I have. 🤔
unlabelledView post →It feels strange to recommend this considering I never actually finished it, but I have never had an experience like this before with a game. It is truly unique. I left it with only one more day to go, because everything had fallen apart and I felt immensely stressed. I always intended to return to it but the mere thought of doing so unsettled me enough that I just kept putting it off. Then a year later I lost the save file. To call it fun might not be accurate.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have no idea why I suddenly bought this game and jumped in without knowing anything about it, but man am I glad I did. I had no idea what to expect and I got my ass handed to me SO FAST. I had no idea what was going on, had no idea how to stop dying on the FIRST DAY, yet I couldn't stop playing. As many others have already said, it's definitely a game worth sitting through, even if you want to pull your hairs out and feel frustrated and stuck a lot of the time. I remember somehow getting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pathologic 2 is perhaps THE BEST apocalyptic game in the recent time. Note that it is NOT "POST-apocalyptic", but a game happens during an apocalypse, meaning you get to experience the progressive desperation of a regular person trying to survive during a plague and I really mean it. The game is difficult to the point that reaching an ending is a rare Steam achievement (with only 10% players reached it) but it serves the apocalyptic experience in my opinion. The game is not perfect…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When they say games are pieces of art, this is what they mean. This is a frustrating, stressful and exhausting game. It's not fun, I would not play this to unwind and relax. But that is exactly the point. It does a remarkably great job of surrounding you in atmosphere, it works against you quite actively and no matter what you do or how you try to arrange yourself, you won't be "succesful." You will miss opportunities, kill people, run out of time and die. It's not meant to be fun, it's meant…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like that most of Pathologic 2's dialogue exists solely for roleplay purposes. It fits the themes and you can still Guybrush Threepwood your way through the game if you believe that's what your character is
unlabelledView post →... You know, between Puppeteer, Dark Queen of Mortholme, and Pathologic 2- I'm realizing I'm something of a sucker for games that incorporate theatre traditions and techniques into their story and game design. Every other game wants to be a movie or TV show but few want to be Brecht or Stoppard.
unlabelledView post →Amazing game for people who love making intricate red string boards and general suffering
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm writing novels and short stories and working on a short horror game and learning 4 languages and my brain wants to make a 5 hour youtube video essay on Pathologic 2 and crises of modernity. I need to be anaesthetized.
unlabelledView post →last night's Pathologic 2 vod is up, which means the entire game is now on youtube for you to peruse as you wish! now if anyone wants to know what this whole "pathologic 2" thing is about but doesn't want to play it, there's a perfect place to go...
unlabelledView post →The narrative system of this game is GOD TIER. That alone puts it in my top favorite games of all time. The game is in control of you in that you will never be able to achieve a sense of optimization in how you play. It is refreshingly humanizing. The world exists with or without you. Events are numerous and impermanent. You get to decide who you care about and who you hate. etc. etc. so much to say. Love it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game - the vibe is strange and mysterious, but it's SO punishing and for what?!?! You can't focus on the story because you have to constantly search for food and a bed to sleep in, then if you die because of hunger or exhaustion the game becomes much more difficult. I really gave it a go, but ultimately couldn't progress because I got caught in a loop of being broke, tired and hungry. Maybe I didn't get it, I really tried, but the game lost me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You come away from a session of this game feeling exhausted, confused, and panicked, but end up coming back for more anyway.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →😵💜🗑️RIGHT NOW🗑️💜😵 Let's squeeze in some Pathologic 2 before game night! 🔗▶️ www.twitch.tv/peonyplayinp... See you soon, Litterbugs!
unlabelledView post →Should games be fun? Okay but should they ALWAYS be fun? Unique experience. Amazing story. Just enjoy the ride (or don't)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How this game gets the heaped praise I do not understand. I wrote out a long review because there is so much wrong with this awful game but I deleted it because it's just not worth going over. Don't buy this pretentious, frustrating, awful mess of a game. The game dislikes you playing it. I would invite you to dislike it right back. Have some respect for yourself and don't play this garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing for over 20 hours, I ran out of food. I tried to find some, but every attempt ended with my death. I started to panic, tried loading an older save, but there was no way out. I didn’t have enough money to buy anything but nuts, and I couldn’t find a single soul willing to trade me a piece of bread. It’s been an incredible experience. I’m starting a new run. 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have Lots To Say about Pathologic 2, btw www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
unlabelledView post →Little throwback to february 2021, when I dreamt that I was playing Pathologic 2, except the game had the complete aesthetics and gameplay of Don't Starve! Naturally, I needed to draw the characters as such! #art #pathologic #oldart #dontplague #nattsweirddreams
unlabelledView post →I tried this game a couple years ago and then recently tried it again to have more patience with it and really give it a chance. The idea of it is actually sooooooo freaking cool. It's the whole reason I really wanted to play and the first few minutes had me sucked in, but I was INSTANTLY lost shortly after. The game tries waaaaayyyyyyyy too hard to be quirky and different to the point quite literally NOTHING makes sense. Even when the game actually finally starts, everyone talks like some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The core message is that suffering and death are inescapable but one can find meaning in them. The problem is that the meaning in the game isn't proportionate to the suffering the player experiences during the game (if the narrative is fully felt). The irony is that the game becomes an anti-pattern for what it's trying to teach the player about: a nihilistic, meta-narrative about how disproportionate suffering is to the joys of life. I wonder if the developers enjoy stripping everything away…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I do recommend this game for it's fascinating story and world-building, be aware that it is NOT an easy game. I was fairly confident in my gaming abilities until this game put me in my place. This is a brilliant narrative game where your biggest enemy isn't plague you're fighting, nor the homeless trying to stab you... it's time. That other stuff is bad too, but time is the real enemy. No matter how much you prepare, or how much you think you know about the game, you're always trying to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have finally finished Pathologic 2. What a fantastic game. I may never recover from the mental anguish. Great fun.
unlabelledView post →something I love about Pathologic 2 is how the game embraces my haphazard, less-than-competent approach to playing and makes it all about what a mess the disastrous protagonist is
unlabelledView post →Imagine going to medical school for 6 years to come back and see everyone wants to stab you to death. This game keeps reminding you that "No one cares about you here". This game is like a toxic relationship you can't get rid of. It hurts me in every way and I hate it to my bones. And yet I can't help coming back to it. I hate it more than anything in the world. 9/10
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