
The game, which is scheduled for February 2020, takes advantage of the current crisis and allows the player to emulate the disease.
Revenue from a crisis. Coronavirus Simulator is a video game that goes on sale just when news about the disease has crossed the world. So has the coronavirus, which has traveled with its carriers from China and has already infected people outside the Asian country. In that context, this title developed by Evil Scientists and Reptilians was born. According to the Steam website, the product will go on sale next February 21. And who is the protagonist? The virus itself.
"Coronavirus Simulator is a clicker that allows you to see the world from the perspective of the coronavirus," they explain in the official description. “Understand your feelings and help him spread throughout the world. Great game to relax after a day at work. Different scenarios, several modifications to infect even more people and unique appearances for your coronavirus ”, concludes the synopsis. These are its main features:
- Modify your genome.
- Improve your immunity in extreme conditions.
- Click to infect a person and spread throughout the world.
- Make sure the vaccine development is not successful.
- End all security measures that people have taken to destroy you.
- Share experience with your best friends: plague, smallpox, cholera, flu and Ebola.
Epic Games decides not to give away Pandemic
Not all companies have taken advantage of the situation to offer a degree related to the disease. This is the case of the Epic Games Store, which announced last week that it would give Pandemic with two other board games adapted to the PC. However, in view of the circumstances, the American company has decided to back down and not give away that video game. Official information says they have "displaced the launch of Pandemic as a free game" from their store "at a later date," although they have not specified when it will be available.
The developers of Plague Inc, on the other hand, who have seen their video game escalate again in sales due to the situation of the coronavirus, have come to the step and have remembered that their product is, after all, a video game, for what should not be taken as an encyclopedic or scientific product.