Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 3624090 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 0 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | Free to play |
| Free to play | Yes |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | — |
| Current price USD | Free |
| Release date | Coming soon |
| Developer | Game Gangsters |
| Publisher | Brightika, Inc. |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | Not available |
| Review type | No user reviews |
| Positive review percent | Not available |
| Positive reviews | 0 |
| Negative reviews | 0 |
| Total reviews | 0 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | Not available |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/3624090/ |
Short description
Patient Zero: Plague Idle is a strategic virus simulator where you start by infecting "patient zero" and develop a deadly disease. Adapt the virus, overcome humanity's protective measures, and aim for either a global catastrophe or the salvation of the world.
About this game
CAN YOU DESTROY HUMANITY? Micro-scale evolution. Macro-scale extinction. Patient Zero is an idle/incremental pandemic strategy where you engineer ever-evolving biological threats. As the architect of collapse, min-max your mutation layers to ensure the world succumbs to your design. THE LOOP OF DESTRUCTION Master a progression cycle built for massive scaling: Harvest: Gather Biomass to fuel expansion. Automate: Maximize your infection per second (IPS). Mutate: Spend Genetic Capital on synergistic evolution trees. Transcend: Use Prestige Layers to unlock meta-progression and resilient strains. STRATEGIC MUTATION & SCALING Navigate a vast Mutation Tree where every choice impacts global power. Balance stealth with lethality to overcome medical research and trigger an unstoppable snowball effect across extreme climates. GLOBAL OUTBREAK SIMULATION Watch the map turn red as your creation collapses healthcare systems. Every region requires a specific strategic path to maximize infection yield and bypass localized defenses in real-time. CORE FEATURES Pathogens: Master prestige mechanics for Viruses, Bacteria, Fungi, and Nanobots. AFK Gains: Progress continues with substantial offline rewards. Dynamic Meta: Adapt to news, lockdowns, and global cure efforts. Can you engineer the ultimate extinction event? The evolution begins now.
Supported languages
English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Arabic * , Bulgarian * , Czech * , Danish * , Dutch * , Finnish * , Greek * , Hungarian * , Indonesian * , Japanese * , Korean * , Norwegian * , Polish * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Romanian * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * , Spanish - Latin America * , Swedish * , Thai * , Traditional Chinese * , Turkish * , Ukrainian * , Vietnamese * , Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Dari, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Igbo, Irish, K'iche', Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Odia, Persian, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Quechua, Scots, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorani, Sotho, Swahili, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tigrinya, Tswana, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Valencian, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu * languages with full audio support