The sand plague is back, and it turns out its horrors look even better in 4K.
Ice-Pick Lodge dropped a short and moderately grotesque announcement trailer that lets on a lot about Pathologic 3, the much anticipated sequel to Pathologic 2 (2019).
The new title has big shoes to fill, after the first game revolutionized the survival horror genre and reached maturity with the second entry.
Plague Mondays
The trailer opens with the average Monday of a rural town, with cheerful things like kids playing in the street while a corpse dangles from a post over them.
This time around, you play the role of Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky, a big city doctor with a posh aura and a lot more choices and tasks than in previous games.
Since the town is dying slowly of a horrifying plague, the Bachelor has to handle both the spread of the disease today, and an eventual cure.
Pathologic 3 lets you close down sectors of the town using patrols to enforce them, and gives you authority to mandate quarantines.
Keeping the infected at bay is only half the job though, and it will be to no avail unless you find a cure....
