Plague Inc.

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4.06M reviews
Content rating
Everyone 10+
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Everyone 10+
Violent References
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About this game

Can you infect the world? Plague Inc. is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation.

Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for touchscreen, Plague Inc. from developer Ndemic Creations evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world - only the strongest can survive!

Plague Inc. is a global hit with features in newspapers such as The Economist, New York Post, Boston Herald, The Guardian and London Metro!

The developer of Plague Inc. was invited to speak at the CDC in Atlanta about the disease models inside the game and partnered with the World Health Organisation during the covid pandemic to produce an expansion for the game: Plague Inc: The Cure.

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Features:
● Highly detailed, hyper-realistic world with advanced AI (Outbreak management)
● Comprehensive in-game help and tutorial system (I am Legendarily helpful)
● 12 different disease types with radically different strategies to master (12 Monkeys?)
● Full Save/Load functionality (28 Saves Later!)
● 50+ countries to infect, hundreds of traits to evolve and thousands of world events to adapt to (Pandemic evolved)
● Full game support for scoreboards and achievements
● Expansion updates add the mind controlling Neurax Worm, the zombie producing Necroa Virus, Speed Runs and real life Scenarios!
● Can you save the world? Take control and stop a deadly global plague in our biggest expansion yet!
● Take on Daily Diseases, earn powerful upgrades and compete against the world in Outbreak Mode!

Localised in English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean and Russian.

P.S. Give yourself a pat on the back if you got all the themed literature references!

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Can you infect the world?
Updated on
Sep 28, 2026
Available on
Android, Windows*
*Powered by Intel® technology
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Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, Personal info and 4 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 4 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.6M reviews
Antonia McKinnon
September 5, 2026
I love the new scenarios. Overall I love this game. It is easy to pick up, play, and pause as life allows. The scenarios shake things up when I want a challenge and come packed with lots of great info about real diseases and disease prevention efforts. update 12 years later: I still play regularly. I like the varied play modes. I did not realize I had been playing since 2014 until I saw my original review.
10 people found this review helpful
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Mason Bath
May 8, 2026
Gameplay is fun but it gets repetitive. However my biggest issue is despite having premium the game constantly glitches and thinks that I don't have premium. Because of this it's constantly locking me out of key features like the speed up time, or the ability to review the game world more in depth or hell even being able to see how many humans are infected or dead. This happened constantly with or with our internet and it sometimes happens on games that I have already saved.
14 people found this review helpful
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Aselyn Morris (Aether)
May 28, 2025
It's a good game, but the micro transactions and ads are irritating. it's borderline unplayable unless you upgrade. even if you upgrade, it doesn't work if you're offline, and you have to restore your purchase every time you open it. even that doesn't always work. otherwise, it's a really interesting strategy game, with a lot of cool game modes and scenarios to check out.
195 people found this review helpful
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