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Pathologic 3
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Yes. Yes it's different from P2. Yes, it's still quite a bit broken. Yes, it's verbose. Yes, it's longer than all three campaigns of P1 combined. Yes, some characters have been changed. Yes, it's still enthralling. Yes, it's still unique, even more so than P2. Yes, it's still…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“daniil dankovsky's terrible horrible no good very bad steppe vacation and subsequent police interrogation. this man doesn't eat or drink for 12 days save for drinking morphine and eating straight up coffee beans, of course he's fighting death anyone would be with that diet.…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played“tl;dr play Classic or 2 instead I loved Classic and 2 but 3 just struggles to engage me. Poor pacing, watered down survival and gameplay mechanics, excess repetition, grinding, poor immersion, the game is way too long... The writing has neither the mystery and abstractness of…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Pain, Difficulty, Shabnak, and Other Topics: A Pathologic 3 Update
Hello everyone! This is Alexander Souslov, producer at Ice-Pick Lodge and game designer of Pathologic 3. The studio has been quiet for a while. We needed a moment to catch our breath. The team had no
Update #6
Hi, friends! Update #6 is out. This time we tuned several noticeable things at once: improved a bunch of Mind Palaces , made the interface more flexible (all the way up to toggling the HUD with a sing
Update #5
Hi, friends! Update #5 is here. We continue to methodically knock the weirdness out of the game: broken decrees and busted quests, doors that shouldn’t be open, districts you suddenly can’t enter, and
Update #4
What is the butterfly effect? It’s a concept from chaos theory: in complex systems, even a tiny event can have unpredictable and huge consequences—somewhere else, at a different time. All of Pathologi
Hotfix #11
Hi, friends! We’re done with Hotfix #11. Most of these changes are about frustration: someone was giving out an unnecessary map marker, someone wasn’t showing up when you expected them, somewhere ther
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation |
| Player tags | Psychological Horror · Horror · Story Rich · Atmospheric · Survival Horror · Psychological · Choices Matter · Remake · First-Person · RPG · Adventure · Surreal (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Playable without Timed Input · DualShock Controller Support |
| Languages | English * , Russian * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 72 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8/10/11 (64-bit) Processor: i3 / Ryzen 5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 25 GB available space Sound Card: Integrated Additional Notes: 64-bit OS is required