r/pathologic • u/ComplexSecretary3057 • 3d ago

Discussion Playing pathologic 3

I’ve recently just finished my first run through of pathologic 2 and enjoyed it a lot once doing a deep dive into story and playing both endings. I don’t think I could play another run of pathologic 2 for a while because it is genuinely a draining experience, but how far does pathologic 3 differ?
I’ve heard it’s a bit more forgiving in the sense that it’s not “as hard of a game” I’m interested to play it but if it’s anywhere near as crushing as pathologic 2 can be I think I may just need to take a little break and come back to the series at a later point.

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u/spongeboblovesducks Eva Yan 3d ago

It's not like 2 at all. 2 is a hard-core survival game, 3 feels more like a psychological horror game to me, you have to keep your mental state in check instead of hunger, sleep etc. It's also easily the best "doctor" game in the series, the diagnosing is really in-depth and probably my favourite part of the game.

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u/ComplexSecretary3057 3d ago

That sounds like possibly a more enjoyable experience for me, I will definitely consider picking it up soon if this is the case because I loved the hardcore survival but it’s just a bit too much for me to go straight into another play of it. I do love psychological horror and would be very interested to play the bachelors route, thanks for the reply!

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u/spongeboblovesducks Eva Yan 3d ago

Yeah I really love both games personally. I didn't even mention the actual best part of 3, which is that you play as the bachelor and that means you can be a total dickhead to everyone

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u/ComplexSecretary3057 3d ago

So I saw somewhere that when pathologic 2 first released it was supposed to have a changeling and bachelor route but got scrapped due to workload and other reasons. Is pathologic 3 supposed to be the bachelors route? Meaning it’s the same plague with same characters, and sort of second part of question if this is true I’m assuming a lot of characters from P2 will be different levels of important for P3? Like Lara and Rubin will be in the game but not as important and other characters will be more story involved if you get what I mean.

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u/spongeboblovesducks Eva Yan 3d ago

Yes exactly, it's the same overall story but from a completely different perspective. The bachelor route has always been the most political of the 3, you're mostly talking to the leaders and upper class citizens, dealing with civil unrest, signing decrees, administering vaccines, etc. I have no idea what the changeling route will be like in P4, but I hope it's as radically different as 3 was.

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u/ComplexSecretary3057 3d ago

Thank you for taking the time to answer, feel a lot more inclined to play P3 now rather than wait a bit