Pathogenic
BANGER · RPG · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 12.3h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 18 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 / Radeon RX 560, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
You are a disease. Infect the human body as a lone pathogen in this cellular roguelike shooter. Collect organelles to evolve your parasite in a microscopic arms race against your host's immune system. Conquer a beautiful, procedurally generated world of tiny proportions.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 78 days tracked here, most recently in August 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Core Keeper ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats DYSMANTLE ($19.99, scores 84).
Of the 606 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 6 of 220 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 610 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
94% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
501 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pathogenic scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3808690/pathogenicReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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