Pathologic Classic HD
In Pathologic players embark on a dark journey to explore a remote town built upon old tanneries and butcheries just as a mysterious and deadly disease breaks out. Pathologic Classic HD is an extensive…
Pathologic Classic HD is an adventure developed by General Arcade, released 29 October 2015 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Pathologic Classic HD is
Pathologic Classic HD is an adventure game developed by General Arcade and released in 2015. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pathologic is a 2005 survival game developed by Russian studio Ice-Pick Lodge. The game was released in Russia by Buka Entertainment in June 2005, followed by a localised English release from G2 Games and GMX Games in 2006. An updated version, Pathologic Classic HD, was developed by General Arcade, published by Good Shepard Entertainment, and released in October 2015. A remake of the Haruspex route was developed by Ice-Pick Lodge in the Unity game engine and released as Pathologic 2 in May 2019 by tinyBuild. A second remake reimagining the Bachelor route, Pathologic 3, was released on 9 January 2026 by HypeTrain Digital.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Pathologic Classic HD holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon 64 2.3 GHz / Intel Pentium 2.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM and Radeon HD 4890 1024MB / GeForce 210 512MB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Pathologic Classic HD launched on 29 October 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pathologic Classic HD yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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