2026-08-13 10:42 UTC · GamingOnLinux
Pathogenic is a top-down roguelike shooter where you control a customizable lone pathogen infecting a human host. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/cellular-roguelike-shooter-pathogenic-is-a-body-infecting-good-time/
2026-08-07 16:18 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hi Parasites!We're back with a new update! This time the focus is mostly on balancing. We've been combing through all your feedback here on Steam and on our Discord reporting channels, and we noticed a few organelles and mutations performing far better than intended due to how the buffs were stacked. This patch will turn them down a notch, while also buffing several other organelles to encourage more varied approaches to infecting the human body.At the same time, there are several adjustments to the hp of enemies in the Heart, as we hope to make this "final" level more fitting to its status.Se
2026-08-02 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites!Thursday July 30 marked the second week since Pathogenic launched and the end of our launch sale. Thanks to all of your support, these two weeks couldn’t have gone any better. We are truly grateful for everyone playing Pathogenic and sharing your thoughts on the game.We are getting plenty of feedback from the community every day, and will keep working on fixes and optimizations to address issues you bring to our attention. Here's a new batch of updates aiming to resolve various bugs and crashes, as well as improve your gameplay experience.*Please note that this update might make
2026-07-22 15:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites!Pathogenic just passed 100k copies sold! Thank you so much for your support that helped us reach this massive milestone in less than a week after launch. Now for the more important thing of today: Pathogenic just got a new update with a series of rebalancing, optimizations and fixes!BalancingWe've heard your feedback about the Lungs difficulty scaling. While it will remain as a harder late-game level, we have adjusted some of the enemies to make them less unpredictable. Dash attacks are now more telegraphed for the pathogens to evade, and the alveolar macrophages are receiving fe
2026-07-20 15:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites!A MASSIVE thanks to all of you for such an incredible launch weekend! Seeing everyone playing our microscopic shooter and giving us so many kind comments and feedback these last few days really felt like a fever dream (or maybe the pathogen solved the puzzle and got to my brain?).As of the time of this post, Pathogenic has reached 75,000k sales with Overwhelmingly Positive Steam reviews (95% positive and 1,000+ review count!), as well as a peak concurrent player count of almost six thousand!We are super grateful to every one of you, whether you just joined the war against the imm
2026-07-17 16:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites!Pathogenic has passed the 25,000 sales milestone within 24 hours after launch!On top of that, our cellular roguelike shooter has reached 3,000+ peak concurrent player count. These are incredible numbers for a game made by a humble dev team of two. The pathogen truly is spreading everywhere! From the bottom of our plague-ridden hearts, a big thank you to each and every one of you for making Pathogenic such a viral (medically) success.If you haven’t started infecting the human body, Pathogenic is now on a 20% launch discount. Be sure to pick up our game while it lasts! And check ou
2026-07-16 12:25 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites!The Pathogen is out of the petri dish.Pathogenic 1.0 is OUT NOW.You are a disease, a lone parasite waging a desperate war against the immune system. Choose one of our 7 distinct pathogens and fight through 6 vibrant organs of the human body, each with its own set of defenders. Loot and combine over 120 powerful organelles and mutations to craft game-breaking combos.From the winding maze of the Intestines to the abrupt airflows in the Lungs, only the deadliest pathogen can survive this onslaught. And if you are big-brained enough, perhaps you can find your way into a secret level.
2026-07-15 15:00 UTC · Community Announcements · DanPos
We've had some questions about the exact launch timing of the game tomorrow so we made this handy graph to let you know when the game will be available to purchase and play!Release Times5am PDT8am EDT1pm BST2pm CEST8pm CST9pm KST9pm JST12am NZTOfficial Soundtrack and ArtbookYou may have seen yesterday that we shared a look at the artbook launching alongside Pathogenic tomorrow, but now we have a nice treat for you to tie you over until launch - we've made the official soundtrack available on YouTube! Of course, if you purchase the Official Soundtrack and Artbook, you will get access to the tra
2026-07-14 11:21 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites!Just want to give everyone an update: Pathogenic's demo will go offline 2 hours later than announced, at UTC 17:00 today. If you want to do one last run before launch, there's still time!While we're sad to see the demo go, the wait won't be long. We are only two days from launch, on this Thursday July 16!A massive thanks to everyone (all 150,000+ of you!) for loving the demo so dearly and sharing all the helpful feedback and reviews on our game that really helped our pathogens evolve. Soon, you'll be joined by 2 new parasites with an array of new organelles and mechanics to conqu
2026-07-06 15:24 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites!Pathogenic has reached 100,000 wishlists!!!🥳Thank you so much for supporting Pathogenic! The infection is spreading fast, and reaching this absolutely MASSIVE milestone means so much to us! We can't ask for a more passionate community to get us this far. Every review, every piece of feedback, every broken pathogen you shared helped us shape the game to what it is currently, and what it's going to be on release.Pathogenic will launch on 16 Jul 2026, and we're putting the final pieces in place during this last sprint. Please look forward to it, and wishlist our game if you haven't
2026-07-01 15:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
A heads-up to all our fellow parasites: the Pathogenic demo will be taken offline on July 14th 15:00 UTC, exactly two days before launch.We’ve contemplated this decision for a while. Seeing everyone enjoying the demo so much and sharing all the crazy builds has been a big part of our motivation to keep working on the game, and we will dearly miss all the ridiculous combos from your pathogens (until the full game comes out, at least). Unfortunately, as a small dev team of two, we simply don’t have the capacity to maintain the demo while working on the full game.You might have noticed the demo h
2026-06-18 07:54 UTC · Community Announcements · DanPos
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that Matt, developer and composer of Pathogenic will be in conversation with Hei Man from Slug Disco, Pathogenic's publisher, tonight at 6pm BST!Thanks to all the submissions from our Discord community, we have quite a long list of interesting questions to delve into the making of Pathogenic and perhaps even the game's future plans. You can catch the livestream on YouTube here - why not stop by the chat and show your support!
2026-06-15 16:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites!We are going into Next Fest with an update! Invade the human body with the shapeless Amoeba, experiment with new organelles, and more!New Pathogen: AmoebaThe Amoeba is our latest playable pathogen in the demo. Unlike other parasites, it has no defining shape – literally just start out as a tiny blob of 3 organelle slots. While this gives the Amoeba a tougher start (tip: get stash slot upgrades for extra organelles), players will be able to add new organelle slots as the Amoeba levels up.This means the Amoeba can grow into unique shapes to suit your specific builds. There are some
2026-06-12 14:02 UTC · Community Announcements · mathead
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2026-06-09 09:36 UTC · Community Announcements · Tactical Lich
Hey Parasites! Pathogenic is in Bullet Fest now!Play the Pathogenic demo in Steam's Bullet Fest as a lone parasite, and fight the bullet hell by becoming a bullet hell yourself. Build broken combos, and obliterate the immune system with the ultimate pathogen.With more than 75,000 wishlists and over 100,000 demo players (thank you for your support!), the plague is multiplying quick. Try our demo now and get ready for the Amoeba, a new playable pathogen coming soon in the upcoming Next Fest update!
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