Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- PS4 · PC · XONE
- Mode
- Single player
- Age rating
- PEGI 18
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Pathologic 2 is a reimagining of the original, focused on the Haruspex, Artemy Burakh. You return to your plague-stricken hometown as a surgeon-healer caught between local kinship traditions, colonial urban power, impossible medicine, hunger, exhaustion, and a clock that never stops. Compared with the 2005 game, it is more mechanically coherent and cinematic, but still intentionally punishing: you are meant to triage, fail, compromise, and live with irreversible consequences.
- Horror
- Thriller
- Survival
- Drama
- Open world
- Mystery
- narrative-driven
- plague
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Players
- 90 / 100 · 95 players
- Critics
- 63 / 100 · 5 critics
- Developer
- Ice-Pick Lodge
- Publisher
- tinyBuild
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
