Plague Inc.

As a new disease, it is your job to destroy the entire human species by evolving to a deadly plague.

80 26 May 2012

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Simulator Strategy Tactical Horror Science fiction Warfare

Plague Inc. is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Ndemic Creations, released 26 May 2012 on Android, iOS, Web browser and Windows Phone.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Plague Inc. is

Plague Inc. is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Ndemic Creations and released in 2012. It is available on Android, iOS, Web browser and Windows Phone. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Plague Inc. is a real-time strategy simulation game developed and published by Ndemic Creations. The game was inspired by the 2011 film Contagion and the 2008 browser game Pandemic 2. The player creates and evolves a pathogen to annihilate the human population with a deadly pandemic. The game uses an epidemic model with a complex and realistic set of variables to simulate the spread and severity of the plague. It was released on 26 May 2012 for iOS, 4 October 2012 for Android and 13 May 2015 for Windows Phone.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are horror, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Plague Inc. holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 128 votes.

What it launched against

Plague Inc. launched on 26 May 2012, within three weeks of Max Payne 3, Persona 4 Golden, Diablo III and Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Max Payne 3, Persona 4 Golden, Diablo III, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition.

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