Plague Inc: Evolved
BANGER · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.79/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 66,598
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.8h
- To 100%
- 56h 14.7x the story
- Finish
- 77% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 250
Price and sales
- Sales
- 108 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 June 2026
- Sale every
- 35d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 396 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
91% start to 77% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2026. 108 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Infectonator 3: Apocalypse ($12.99, scores 57) and Rebel Inc: Escalation ($14.99, scores 51).
$29.50 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Plague Inc: Evolved
Steam's global achievement data puts 77 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 6,877 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
3.8 hours to finish it, 56 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 15 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Unironically started playing this game just a few weeks before news broke about Covid-19. Whoops. It's a decent game, very reminiscent of the flash games era. The concept is simple: pick a sickness, pick a location, gain enough points to mutate it and infect the world. It's a decent way to kill some time as games don't run that long, but I don't really think of it as a game that folks really invest that much in...
1 more review, not recommended
There is not anything wrong with this game, but there is nothing thats good about it either. If i played this on a mobile phone to pass time i would maybe give it a thumbs up, but for a pc version game i expect something more out of a game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Plague Inc: Evolved 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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics (512MB), 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Plague Inc: Evolved scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/246620/plague-inc-evolvedReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.