Developer Ice-Pick Lodge and publisher HypeTrain Digital have announced Pathologic 3: Quarantine, a sort of prologue episode for the main game that you'll be able to play for free next year.
In an announcement post, Ice-Pick Lodge describes Quarantine as a "free prelude" that's "not quite" a demo, although it has similarities to a demo. The studio compares Quarantine to The Marble Nest, a teaser released prior to Pathologic 2 that Ice-Pick described as a "mood piece".
Despite the similarities, Quarantine won't function in quite the same way as The Marble Nest; rather than being a self-contained story, it'll "showcase fragments of gameplay mechanics, set the stage for the story, and pull back the curtain a bit" with regards to Pathologic 3's world.
Quarantine will, according to Ice-Pick, tie into the events of the main game, and it'll "partially overlap" with Pathologic 3's intro, but it'll also give you the chance to see unique scenes you won't see in the main game.
You'll also get the chance to get your first glimpse of the Capital, where the Bachelor's lab is located, and you'll get to discover what drove the Bachelor to leave his...
