Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak

Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak

John's Project · June 4, 2020 · Simulation, Strategy, Indie, Political Sim, Outbreak Sim

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Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak price by region

Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak costs $1.39 in Georgia (USD), £1.69 in the United Kingdom, $1.99 in the United States, €1.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$2.59 in Canada, A$2.95 in Australia, NZ$2.99 in New Zealand, R$6.99 in Brazil and zł8.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $1.39 $1.39 — 1
United Kingdom £1.69 £1.69 — 1
United Statesyour region $1.99 $1.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €1.99 €1.99 — 1
Canada CA$2.59 CA$2.59 — 1
Australia A$2.95 A$2.95 — 1
New Zealand NZ$2.99 NZ$2.99 — 1
Brazil R$6.99 R$6.99 — 1
Poland zł8.99 zł8.99 — 1

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About Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak

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A government simulation game in which you're the president and have to strategically plan what actions to take to balance the statistics of your country during a pandemic.

Are you good enough to make your country overcome the pandemic? Try it out!



Want to know what happens if there are no reactions to a pandemic? Try it out!



You're the president of a new country, that is now part of the earth, in 1/1/2020 a pandemic has started.

You have to balance 8 statistics: Infections, Deaths, Recovered, Economic growth, Unemployment, Reputation, Health system workload and vaccine development.

There are 2 main action types you can take to balance the statistics

Isolation measures
- Force masks
- Close country borders
- Close schools
- Stop tourism
- Close stores
- Stop industry
- Stop events

Budget Investments
- Vaccine research
- Health System capacity
- Economy propaganda
- Virus propaganda
- Aid package for businesses

Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jun 5, 2020
The Idea used for making this game is good but it needed more substance, the game is already over when started and there are no notes of what each of the percentages do in each tab, at least you have written the rate of increase in the right hand format and total increase in left hand format for more clarification. Anyway this game doesn't have much of an understanding to the impact of virus in world since after 10% infection rate you will become a criminal of Humanity. This game has potential so develop it more. That's all i have to say.
9 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 6, 2020
I will firstly point out that I like the concept and for a budget game, it shows a lot of promise. However, it falls very short on game depth - with it either being very easy to win or very easy to lose - meaning it is over before it begins. I wanted to dive in and see what I could do to keep the pandemic going, but given the quick win/lose criteria it is near impossible to see how different actions can affect the outcome. There is little in the way of instructions or guidance and it is littered with spelling mistakes. All funded actions are only in $10 increments - it would be useful to be able to choose how much you wanted to invest in each strategy and if you could do so with smaller intervals. At the moment, I can't recommend the game - but would encourage more work on developing it - as it does have potential.
8 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 12, 2023
[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest[/h1] Probably the worst implementation of VR that I have ever come across. I'm not even sure what the point of VR is for this game. You want to see a 2D flat chart in VR? Here's your chance. Seriously, that is this game. The only thing VR about it is this basic, outdated particle effect going on in the background that has nothing to do with the "game." But it gets much worse. You can't play this seated in VR. In fact, I couldn't even play it standing. Why? Well, the floating 2D pandemic chart was way too high. There was no way for me to reach it. There is no height adjustment. You have to actually physically reach each of the chart 2D areas in order to change it. That's right, the point of VR is so instead of playing this comfortably seated in pancake, is so you can play this uncomfortably having to stand and move around to interact with a 2D floating chart. Also, the dev mentions two gameplay elements. I couldn't interact with the budget investments at all. I could reach them, but I couldn't change them. I think it's a game-breaking VR only bug. Why? That's my question. Why did you make VR support for this? Please give me a good reason and I'l…
6 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 6, 2020
i think the developer of this game is biased when it comes to the current real life situation when it comes to closing down the government because it is impossible to win if you decide to no shut down anything no matter how much propaganda you use how can you go form a hospital capacity of only 19% full too 124% full if you accept the donation to ease the work load of your hospitals and everything is 10 dollars form vaccine development too growing your hospital capacity and propaganda which would be fine if you didn't start the game with only 40 dollars and make getting money very slow no matter how much your economy grows if you choose not to shut down and with an unemployment rate of 0% and if you choose not to close the economy in the pop up and ignore the WHO you lose almost immediately and this is when the infection rate is less then 1% in your country this is like playing a political simulator game where you can chose which party to play as but if you didn't chose the party of the developer no matter what you do as the opposing government party you cant win unless the unbalancing changes when you chose not to shut down everything my review wont change
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 25, 2020
I mean, its fine. Was unsure about not recommending but its not... especially? fun? its a decent little time passer ig but not rly worth buying imo. Not really much challenge to it. Its not BAD, though. Just not much to it.
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