Pathologic 3

Defying all traditional game design conventions like its predecessors, Pathologic 3 offers a consistently compelling journey of morality in the face of death.

Given a little more time to cook, Pathologic 3 would be an easy recommendation to players looking to see what this cult series is about. For those returning, tragic healers, these wobbles will hardly detract from the allure of another deadly vacation with gaming’s most neurotic medicine man.

Pain. Disease. Death. All unpleasant, yet all realities of the human condition. While the sciences have come a long way, the claims of those who practiced them were once much more ambitious and unwieldy. It might seem silly to consider reaching immortality through science, but in eras such as the one Dr. Daniil Dankovsky lived in, it wasn’t just snake oil salesmen who invested in the impossible. Hindsight shows how human lifespans have increased remarkably in recent centuries, and that medi...

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