Pathogenic
Playing now
1,133−171 vs. yesterday
19%of peak
All-time peak
5,840Jul 2026
Playing now
1,133−171 vs. yesterday
All-time peak
5,840Jul 2026
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| Community | SICK NEWS: 75k Copies, Overwhelmingly Positive, and Steam Deck Verified! 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… | — | |
| Community | Pathogenic is Going (Medically) Viral! 25,000 COPIES SOLD! 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… | — | |
| News | Pathogenic is OUT NOW 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 wi… | — | |
| Community | Pathogenic Launch Timings! 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 Times · 5am PDT · 8am EDT · 1pm BST · 2pm CEST · 8pm CST · 9pm KST · 9pm JST · 12am NZT Official Soundtrack and Artbook You may have seen yesterday that we shared a look at the artbook launching alongside Pathogenic… |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.
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| Community | 2 Days Until Launch! 🗓️ 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 s… | — |
| Community | 🎉100,000 WISHLISTS!!!🎉 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… | — |
| Community | Pathogenic Demo Will Go Offline on Jul 14 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 (… | — |
| News | Pathogenic Q&A Stream with the dev! 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 l… | — |
| Major update | The Amoeba is here! (and How To Play Pathogenic with Friends!) 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: Amoeba The 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 sta… | — |
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| Community | Pathogenic joins Bullet Fest! 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 de… | — |
| Announcement | Pathogenic Launching on July 16th!! ATTENTION PARASITES!!! Pathogenic is officially launching on 16 Jul 2026!!! That's right, we have a release date! Check out our new trailer, featuring gameplay in new levels with new organelles coming soon to the full game: The Lungs and Heart will be completing our full set of vital organs for you to infect. These new areas will have their own thematic defenders and environmental hazards, posi… | — |
| Community | May Dev Blog 2: Breathing Life into the Lungs Hey Parasites! Throughout the past month, we’ve been making a lot of progress with the new levels and organelles for the full game. We don’t have a demo update for you just yet, as we are deep inside the human heart, mapping out the maze of arteries. What we do have, though, is an almost-complete Lungs level all set for the full game, and the Heart, which we’re working on right now. Below is an… | — |
| Community | May Dev Blog: Working on the Heart and Lungs Hey Parasites! Just want to let you guys know that we don’t have an update to Pathogenic's demo today, as we’ve been busy developing new content for the Lungs and Heart in the full game. That said, with all the work on the new levels, we’re really excited to share what’s going on behind the scenes in today’s dev blog. Shall we begin? Fleshing Out the Lungs The Lungs is coming together nicely be… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 11: UX Improvements Hi Parasites! Hope you are enjoying the new battles with the Adaptive Immune System! We’ve received a lot of your feedback since the last patch, and today’s update will be focusing on addressing these concerns with a wide range of improvements on UX and gameplay balance. Evolution Previews The main change this time is the evolution preview function. You can now switch between all the different… | — |
| Community | Biweekly Update 10: Adaptive Immunity Hey Parasites! Thanks for waiting! The new immune cells are now in the demo, alongside a complete codex of organelles, mutations and enemies! Adaptive Immune System With your parasite leaving multiple ravaged organs in its wake, the Adaptive Immune System is activated to send out more specialised immune cells against the invading pathogen. Helper T-Cells , B-Cells and Dendritic Cells now appear… | — |
| Community | April Dev Blog: A Preview on Upcoming Immune Cells Hey Parasites! Welcome back to our community blog! We don’t have an update for you just yet, though it’s been two weeks since the last patch so we want to keep you informed on our development progress. The human body is about to unleash new enemies to target the ever-growing infection (you), and they are slated to arrive by the end of next week. While these new immune cells still need a little… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 09 - Community Suggestions Welcome back parasites! Over the past few weeks we’ve received a lot of useful feedback from everyone, and we really appreciate all your suggestions to help our pathogens evolve! That’s why in this biweekly update, the focus is on resolving some of the more important issues you’ve brought to our attention. Here’s what’s new to Pathogenic’s demo: Editor Info Display The Editor panel has received… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 08 - Improving the Levels Hi parasites! Time for a new update! This week we continue with fleshing out the Intestine level with a new environmental hazard, alongside improvements to map generation and a new type of loot chest to make your invasion and exploration of the human body more rewarding. Let us begin with this week’s dev blog! Intestinal Villi The Intestine now has its unique trap! The Intestinal Villi stem fro… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 07 - Polishing Time AMAZING NEWS! Pathogenic just passed 60,000 parasites/wishlists! A massive milestone for our tiny pathogens, thanks to your support! We really appreciate all of you for helping us shape the evolution of our microscopic roguelike project. Every piece of encouragement and feedback helps make our pathogens deadlier AND a lot more fun to play with. Currently, Matt and Roberto are polishing and cons… | 22112073 |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 06: Intestine Welcome back, Parasites! The news you’ve all been waiting for: the Intestine is here! In this update, we are adding a whole new area and a local co-op pathogen to the demo. Featuring native enemies and a unique layout, the Intestine presents a new set of challenges to your parasite’s invasion on the immune system. You can even explore it with a friend, playing as the Diatom that allows two play… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 05 - Edit Your Start! Hey Parasites! Welcome back to another biweekly update! As mentioned in the last patch notes, Matt and Roberto have shifted their focus to working on a major update that will soon be revealed, so this update is a bit smaller than usual. Though because of that, they've been making some great progress with the upcoming Intestine level. Take a sneak peek at this work-in-progress area! Intestine Sn… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 04 - Multi-Hit Attacks! Welcome Parasites! Time for the first update to Pathogenic's Demo in 2026! This week, we are bringing you more than just new organelles: reworked tooltips, new game mode, difficulty adjustment and more! We know you’ve waited long enough since the last patch so let’s dive right into the patch notes! New Features · Daily Challenges : Introducing daily runs with random conditions – random parasite… | 21512223 |
| Community | A Dev Blog for the New Year Happy New Year everyone! 2026 is here! And we hope you have an amazing start to the year! Usually this would’ve been a patch notes post, though the next batch of new content needs a little more time to cook. Still, we want to keep you updated on the development progress so instead, we have a dev blog for you today on what we’ve been working on lately. Tool Tips Rework Pathogenic has seen a sign… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 03 - The Swarm Greetings, fellow parasites! We have a Christmas gift for you! It's been two weeks and you know the drill: time for a biweekly update. This week we are bringing in a whole new playstyle – summoning. Tired of getting outnumbered all the time? With the new weapon and organelles, you can become the swarm yourself. New Weapon and Organelles This batch of new toys features an array of auto-attacking… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 02 - High Voltage Welcome back everyone! It’s been two weeks, so time for a shocking update! We’re back with a fresh batch of brand-new content, as well as a plethora of changes to gameplay, balancing and UI. New Weapons and Organelles This update contains both new weapons and new internal organelles. Check out all the new toys! Weapons · Galvanic Conduit: Zap foes with electric discharge (UNLIMITED POWERRRR!! .… | — |
| In-game event | Biweekly Update 01 - More Firepower Hi everyone, Pathogenic's Demo will be getting a new patch every two weeks, starting with a bunch of new content today! In this update, we are bringing you new weapons, organelles, a new enemy and a range of rebalancing, optimizations and fixes. New Weapons and Organelles 3 new weapons have been added to your arsenal. Your pathogen now has more firepower than ever before! (Try not to get hit by… | — |