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Pathogenic

Aberrant Labs · Slug Disco · 2026-07-16

Steam

ActionIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 16, 2026 (Linux), Jul 16, 2026 (Mac), Jul 16, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are a disease. Infect the human body as a lone pathogen in this cellular roguelike shooter. Collect organelles to evolve your parasite in a microscopic arms race against your host's immune system. Conquer a beautiful, procedurally generated world of tiny proportions.

Pathogenic is a $9.99 Action, Indie, RPG, Simulation game released in 2026, with Very Positive (93% of 3865 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

93%
positive of 4.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
16,117
twitch viewers (latest)
16117.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
1
Nexus mods (519 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)
Pathogenic is a video game developed by Aberrant Labs, and published July 14, 2026 by Slug Disco on Steam for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The game is a roguelike top-down bullet hell twin-stick shooter in which the player controls a pathogenic microorganism, infecting a host and traveling through interconnected, procedurally generated levels resembling various internal organs and biological structures. The playable pathogen is able to be modified by inserting organelles into slots, which can be moved around to create different effects.

Trailer

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Health check

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  • · Top 7% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 92k–208k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,619 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-07-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 3 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.5k1.5k20262026Week of 2026-07-16: 1,482 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 80 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 706 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 67 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 518 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 48 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

11052026-08-08 — 5 pageviews2026-08-10 — 31 pageviews2026-08-12 — 64 pageviews2026-08-14 — 85 pageviews2026-08-16 — 72 pageviews2026-08-18 — 61 pageviews2026-08-20 — 46 pageviews2026-08-22 — 39 pageviews2026-08-24 — 44 pageviews2026-08-26 — 39 pageviews2026-08-28 — 25 pageviews2026-08-30 — 33 pageviews2026-09-01 — 53 pageviews2026-09-03 — 51 pageviews2026-09-05 — 48 pageviews2026-09-07 — 52 pageviews2026-09-09 — 47 pageviews2026-09-11 — 34 pageviews2026-09-13 — 43 pageviews2026-09-15 — 49 pageviews2026-09-17 — 29 pageviews2026-09-19 — 35 pageviews2026-09-21 — 15 pageviews2026-09-23 — 86 pageviews2026-09-25 — 59 pageviews2026-09-27 — 110 pageviews2026-09-29 — 56 pageviews2026-10-01 — 46 pageviews2026-10-03 — 34 pageviews2026-10-05 — 49 pageviews2026-10-07 — 49 pageviews2026-10-09 — 46 pageviews2026-10-10 — 41 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

41
achievements tracked
93.8%
earned "Skin"
1.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Czech, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-07-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,5220%41

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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