Pathogenic

93% positive of 4,577 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam

Made by Aberrant Labs. Published by Slug Disco.

About the game

You are a disease. Infect the human body as a lone pathogen in this cellular roguelike shooter. Collect organelles to evolve your parasite in a microscopic arms race against your host's immune system. Conquer a beautiful, procedurally generated world of tiny proportions.

What sets it apart

Bullet Heaven
Top-Down Shooter
Action Roguelike
Bullet Hell
Roguelike
Perma Death
Dungeon Crawler
Local Co-Op
Character Customization
Roguelite
Procedural Generation
Co-op

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Pathogenic

93% positive of 4,577 Steam reviews

See it on Steam

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam

Made by Aberrant Labs. Published by Slug Disco.

About the game

What sets it apart

Bullet Heaven
Top-Down Shooter
Action Roguelike
Bullet Hell
Roguelike
Perma Death
Dungeon Crawler
Local Co-Op
Character Customization
Roguelite
Procedural Generation
Co-op

What players say

Recommended
The setting are the insides of a human body. Innerspace style, only evil. Let's put the obvious aside for now and examine why Pathogenic is loved. A great roguelite doesn't just demoralise when it kills you. Sure, death seldom feels good, but this game swiftly replaces the sprouts of sadness with anticipation for the next run where anything could happen. Back to the drawing board, a bit stronger if you got far…
45 h played when written. 54 found it helpful.
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Recommended
If you loved the first level of Spore, but wished it was a whooole lot longer: then boy, do I have THE game for you!
13 h played when written. 37 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I don't know why so many devs are fixated in using "modern" game features such as roguelike rng and metaprogression in absolutely everything, even in ways that hurts the experience. There are many fun item combinations that can be done, many possibilities for experimentation, but there is too much RNG and you need to keep repeating runs, and praying for the RNG to let you build something viable, or just different…
23 h played when written. 17 found it helpful.
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