Covid Simulator
Coldrice Games LLC · 2022 · Outbreak Sim, Immersive Sim, Education, Management, Science
PC
Very Positive81% · 62
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About Covid Simulator
"So Well Made It's A Little Depressing" - Kotaku
PLEASE WEAR A MASK, AND GET VACCINATED!
Since early 2020, Covid-19 has caused mayhem the world over. Spreading rapidly, it can cause illness, long term disability, and death. The Covid-19 pandemic has been met with much political turmoil - causing misinformation, violence, and unnecessary risk. Many confusing charts and diagrams exists highlighting the dangers of Covid-19 in the workplace. COVID SIMULATOR hopes to visualize, in an understandable way, how quickly Covid-19 spreads, becoming a disaster. The game is an open sandbox to enjoy, or just fill yourself with dread
In Covid-19 Simulator you can:
TWITCH CONNECT
In the game folder under Assets/Resources/ is a text file labeled "TwitchConnect." simply input your information and the game will automatically be connected to your steam channel. Characters in game will be named for people chatting in your chat. Simply delete your information if you'd no longer like that connection.
-----DISCLAIMER-----
COVID-19 is a serious disease. The game includes satire of current political climate regarding Covid-19, but hopes to convey a very serious attitude regarding the reality of this deadly disease.
THE PRIMARY CONDITIONS THAT EFFECT REAL WORLD COVID-19 INFECTION/TRANSMISSION/CONDITIONS/RESULTS ARE:
The game bases the infections/transmissions/conditions/results of Covid-19 on the US CDC statistics which are based on age/gender/health/ethnicity. This game does not wish to insinuate any ethnic disposition towards Covid-19, however it is personally important to me to demonstrate the extreme dangers that minorities are currently experiencing with the pandemic. It is impossible for a simple game to fully simulate the intricacies of every day human life.
The random ages, genders, health, and ethnicity is based on percentages reported in the US Census data for people in the work place. These are nation wide averages, and does not reflect any particular area.
I am NOT a statistician or a virologist. I am a game developer. This simulator/visualization appears to have similar outcomes to real world results - however it will likely never be real world accurate. It is only a game, meant to demonstrate the dangers of unchecked Covid-19 spread. Within the game files is a stat sheet which can be edited if you would like to change the outcomes/results! If you ARE a statistician or a virologist, please contact me - I would LOVE to expand the accuracy of this game.
PLEASE WEAR A MASK, AND GET VACCINATED!
Since early 2020, Covid-19 has caused mayhem the world over. Spreading rapidly, it can cause illness, long term disability, and death. The Covid-19 pandemic has been met with much political turmoil - causing misinformation, violence, and unnecessary risk. Many confusing charts and diagrams exists highlighting the dangers of Covid-19 in the workplace. COVID SIMULATOR hopes to visualize, in an understandable way, how quickly Covid-19 spreads, becoming a disaster. The game is an open sandbox to enjoy, or just fill yourself with dread
In Covid-19 Simulator you can:
- Play in a sandbox environment to experiment with
- Create a procedural generated work spaces which you can adjust
- Create your OWN workplace with the level editor
- Name and track your workers
- Adjust the number of employees, and their work schedules
- Adjust infection rates, mask adoption, and vaccination rates
- Manually add/remove masks of different varieties, and give vaccinations
- Swap between the Alpha, Delta, and Omicron Covid strains
- Create your own CUSTOM Covid strain!
- Adopt mask mandates, and vaccine mandates
- Hire/Fire Employees
- Encourage Pro/Anti Vaccine behavior
- Give 'alternative medicine' treatments
- Speed up or slow down time to view the results
- View and save charts as PNG or CSV, showing spread over time
- Integrate with Twitch to let your viewers be in the game!
TWITCH CONNECT
In the game folder under Assets/Resources/ is a text file labeled "TwitchConnect." simply input your information and the game will automatically be connected to your steam channel. Characters in game will be named for people chatting in your chat. Simply delete your information if you'd no longer like that connection.
-----DISCLAIMER-----
COVID-19 is a serious disease. The game includes satire of current political climate regarding Covid-19, but hopes to convey a very serious attitude regarding the reality of this deadly disease.
THE PRIMARY CONDITIONS THAT EFFECT REAL WORLD COVID-19 INFECTION/TRANSMISSION/CONDITIONS/RESULTS ARE:
- AGE
- HEALTH
- EXPOSURE CONDITIONS
- INCOME
- ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
The game bases the infections/transmissions/conditions/results of Covid-19 on the US CDC statistics which are based on age/gender/health/ethnicity. This game does not wish to insinuate any ethnic disposition towards Covid-19, however it is personally important to me to demonstrate the extreme dangers that minorities are currently experiencing with the pandemic. It is impossible for a simple game to fully simulate the intricacies of every day human life.
The random ages, genders, health, and ethnicity is based on percentages reported in the US Census data for people in the work place. These are nation wide averages, and does not reflect any particular area.
I am NOT a statistician or a virologist. I am a game developer. This simulator/visualization appears to have similar outcomes to real world results - however it will likely never be real world accurate. It is only a game, meant to demonstrate the dangers of unchecked Covid-19 spread. Within the game files is a stat sheet which can be edited if you would like to change the outcomes/results! If you ARE a statistician or a virologist, please contact me - I would LOVE to expand the accuracy of this game.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Anti-vaxxer idiots will hate this. It's sad that someone might even stoop so low as to lie about game mechanics or what happened to them in the game to fit their political narrative in a review. I mean.... wow. As is the case for a different review for this game that's near the top. Anyway, this is a cute little game that probably deserves more attention than it has received. I was more engaged with it than I was expecting to be honestly. It seems well constructed and rather detailed for the price tag etc. It's funny about how easily so many anti-vaccine enthusiasts would be "offended" at this. Or again, even lie about game mechanics and stuff to align with their RFK Jr narrative.3 found this helpful
Wish we could get an update to reflect the hellish nature of our current existence.3 found this helpful
Sim that shows how it can spread and certain practices can lessen or increase the spread over time. How sick calls effect the business and the workers and the bottom line.1 found this helpful
[h1]#tinygamereviews[/h1] [code] simple (and slightly-addictive!) little outbreak simulator with fun customization options including the ability to make your own maps! [/code] [list] [*][b][u]Overall Score[/u][/b]: 3/5 [/list] [hr][/hr] [h1][b]Curator: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42137521/]Nostalginauts[/url][/b][/h1] NOTE: big ups to the devs' considerate, pro-public health stance!
I just noticed how scary this disease is...
This game is a nice reminder of what live was like when Covid was still going. luckily Covid is over No one gets Covid anymore Never
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