Plague Inc: The Board Game Arrives Digitally For PC And Mobile
Ndemic Creations is selling Plague Inc: The Board Game as a digital game for PC (Steam) and smartphones (Google Play, App Store).
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Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
Why it matters
The digital release grew out of the creator's own prototype, built to test the second edition's rules, which puts a playtest tool in front of the same audience that made Plague Inc: Evolved a 200-million-player title.
Key Facts
- Ndemic Creations is selling Plague Inc: The Board Game digitally for PC (Steam) and smartphones (Google Play, App Store).
- Plague Inc: The Board Game supports one to four players, with bots in single-player and online and same-device multiplayer.
- The creator of Plague Inc: Evolved built the prototype himself to test the board game's second edition rules.
- Plague Inc: Evolved has surpassed 200 million players, and its Steam version was released in 2016.
- The digital board game includes a legacy campaign, daily challenges, a tutorial, and a trial version.
Players each become a pathogen, infect a starting country, and evolve symptoms to spread faster while competing against rival pathogens. It supports one to four players, with bots in single-player, online multiplayer, asynchronous turns, same-device hotseat play, a legacy campaign, daily challenges, a tutorial, and a trial version.
The digital edition comes from an unusual place: a prototype that James, the creator of the original Plague Inc: Evolved, built himself to test the new rules of the board game's second edition. He found it enjoyable enough to release widely.
That puts a rules-testing build in front of the audience that carried the original infection sim past 200 million players. Players start by infecting one country, evolve symptoms to raise infectiousness, and race rival pathogens toward destroying humanity. The asynchronous turn mode lets matches run at each player's own pace, and a trial version is out.
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