Pathologic
Pathologic is a Russian survival-horror/RPG about a remote steppe town collapsing under a plague, with the story told through three playable outsiders: the Bachelor, the Haruspex, and the Changeling. Each…
Pathologic is an adventure developed by Ice-Pick Lodge, released 9 June 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Pathologic is
Pathologic is an adventure game developed by Ice-Pick Lodge and released in 2005. It was published by Buka Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is about three characters who are mostly known by their nicknames: two men, Bachelor (Бакалавр) and Haruspex (Гаруспик), and a girl nicknamed Devotress (Самозванка). Each of them tries to uncover the source of a strange lethal sickness known as the "sand plague" that has befallen a small town. Although players can play as each of them, there is only one storyline, which is seen from different points of view depending upon the chosen character. The ability to uncover some secrets depend on which character is being played and the characters also interact with the other two unchosen characters and discuss their progress over the course of the game. The game takes place in a perpetual…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Pathologic holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below 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 launched on 9 June 2005, within three weeks of Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Killer7 and Chibi-Robo!. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Killer7, Chibi-Robo!.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pathologic yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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