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lapfog_1

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3. has anyone ever played "Plague Inc" by Ndemic Creations?
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 03:46 PM
Jan 2020

I've had it on my Ipad for something close to 10 years.

The concept is to kill everyone on the planet in the least amount of time. You start with a contagion and you get to manipulate how it evolves and spreads.

The interesting part is that as you play, there are "headlines" and news reports that pop up... sometimes about your disease, sometimes not.

Also, as you play... especially as the disease turns fatal and starts killing off people... the CDC and other health organizations try to cultivate a cure or vaccine. So it becomes a race to see if you can infect enough people to cause society to break down and stop the cure from being created before the cure allows humans to survive.

It's a fun, if a bit morbid, game. Unlike first person shooter games, there aren't pictures of people dying or anything, just statistics.

The odd thing is that the headlines appearing occasionally about this new virus look just like the beginning of a Plague game... similar in severity and number. The language used is also very similar.

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if it got to seattle... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #1
Ruh-roh! mr_lebowski Jan 2020 #2
has anyone ever played "Plague Inc" by Ndemic Creations? lapfog_1 Jan 2020 #3
Yikes 😳 dewsgirl Jan 2020 #4
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