PATHOGEN X
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$9.99Skip
On its price record
$8.57Fair
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 308 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.57 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
An immersive, first-person survival shooter where you step into the boots of Special Agent Aiden Clark. Dive deep into a hazardous underground laboratory, tasked with the perilous mission of neutralizing a biological menace and securing a pathogen sample.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia geforce 1060 6gb, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
25 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 55 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 43 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Zombie Panic! Source (free, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy ($14.99, scores 38).
More about PATHOGEN X
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 250 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% start to 35% 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
What players say
The game was fun to play. I would describe the game as a darker and shorter version of Serious Sam. It is maybe a little inspired by games like F.E.A.R. or Trepang2 but fighting zombies instead of armed enemies. It is NOT a horror survival first-person shooter where you have to count every shot fired and try to save every piece of ammunition you find. You instead fire many rounds at hordes of enemies approaching. No...
2 more reviews
> Premise & Story: 4/10 Another laboratory base where experiments have gone wrong. You're a lone mercenary sent to retrieve an important sample of Pathogen X. There are no real twists, and the story gets a little boring, but it provides enough of a reason to keep moving forward and killing zombies. Character dialogue feels stiff, but it clearly explains what you're doing and serves its purpose. > Gunplay: 3/10 The...
For 10 bucks solid game; I am very happy with what's here. Buy it if you like shooting freaks as a classic "action movie" badass with classic FPS mechanics in the classic "lab overrunning by horrors beyond human comprehension" setting. Extremely well done. Easy 8/10. Guns feel good to shoot and the mechanics, such as they are, are pretty easy to figure out. There's a few "puzzles" to solve at times but not so many...
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Cite this score
PATHOGEN X scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2508980/pathogen-xReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.