Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 12:38 am
Plague Inc. – Strategy Game Review
Plague Inc. is a Strategy/Simulation game from Ndemic Creations LTD, first launched in 26th May 2012.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 159,132+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Plague Inc. Stand Out
Can you infect the world? Plague Inc. 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.
Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for iPhone & iPad, Plague Inc. evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world – only the strongest can survive!
◈◈◈ #1 top game globally with well over a billion games played ◈◈◈
Plague Inc. is a global hit with over a million 5 star ratings and features in newspapers such as The Economist, New York Post, Boston Herald, The Guardian and London Metro!
The developer of Plague Inc. was invited to speak at the CDC in Atlanta about the disease models inside the game!
▶ “The game creates a compelling world that engages the public on serious public health topics” – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
▶ "Plague Inc: The Cure encapsulates the complexities of a global pandemic response and highlights how crucial international collaboration is needed to address such a threat.” – Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
▶ “Best Tablet Game” – New York Daily News
▶ “Plague Inc. will snag your attention in all the right ways and keep it there” – Touch Arcade
▶ “No denying Plague Inc.'s high-level of quality” – Modojo
▶ “Plague Inc. should not be as much fun as it is” – London Metro
▶ “Will leave you hoping to destroy the world, all in the name of a bit of fun” – Pocket Lint
▶ “Plague Inc.'s gameplay is infectious” – Slide to Play
▶ Winner – “Overall Game of the Year” – Pocket Gamer
▶ “Killing billions has never been so fun” – IGN
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Features:
● Stunning retina graphics with a highly polished interface (Contagion guaranteed)
● Highly detailed, hyper-realistic world with advanced AI (Outbreak management)
● Comprehensive in-game help and tutorial system (I am Legendarily helpful)
● 12 different disease types with radically different strategies to master (12 Monkeys?)
● Full Save/Load functionality (28 Saves Later!)
● 50+ countries to infect, hundreds of traits to evolve and thousands of world events to adapt to (Pandemic evolved)
● Full game support for scoreboards and achievements
● Expansion updates add the mind controlling Neurax Worm, the zombie producing Necroa Virus, Speed Runs and real life Scenarios!
● Can you save the world? Take control and stop a deadly global plague in our biggest expansion yet!
● Take on Daily Diseases, earn powerful upgrades and compete against the world in Outbreak Mode!
Localised in English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Russian. (more coming soon)
P.S. Give yourself a pat on the back if you got all the themed literature references!
Special sale price to celebrate being one of the most popular paid iPhone games ever!
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Plague Inc. is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Daily diseases come to Plague Inc! Infect the world with new outbreaks, unique game mechanics and powerful pathogen upgrades.
- Daily Outbreaks: A new plague every 24 hours
- Adapt and exploit unique disease/human modifiers
- Earn permanent pathogen upgrades to make your plague deadlier with each victory
- Use global rankings to see how infectious you really are…
Download & Availability
Plague Inc. is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Takes a long time to perfectly win but its so satisfying when you do and its fun to continue to get better.
Different kind of gameplay than Im used to. Very fun.
In this game your Strat should be 2015 turtle world and then kill the entire world.
Do we even have to say anything absolute cinema.
Amazing work the best game ever created in the history of games for a mobile app we are not good at playing it but we love it but we also want a new update so we can make the best board game ever but other than that we love this app Its so cool update.
We love it so much and Im glad that you can try it please.
Its very hard and easy we like to play the on long car rides its very interesting and fun.
We absolutely love this game has more stuff than we could think of and very great concepts only thing we could think of is if you have cure mode and another expansion virus like simian flu then you could try and stop it same for the other expansion diseases seems like a stretch and a lot of work though.
Who ever made up this game pls tell the developers we love this game it is literally the best strategy game Ive ever played and probably the best game Ive ever played overall. If you get this game you are not gonna regret buying it Im literally sooooooo obsessed with this game.
Alright, fam, listen up. You ever wanted to feel like the mastermind behind a global pandemic, pulling the strings from the shadows while watching the world crumble in the most satisfying way possible? Then Plague Inc. Is your playground, and let us tell you, this games got rizz. From the moment you launch it, you step into the shoes of a virus, bacteria, or even a bio-weapon thats about to start a global party except, instead of inviting people to dance, youre infecting them one by one. Smooth, right? But its not all about spreading chaos this games got layers. Youre not just throwing a virus out there and hoping for the best; nah, you gotta think ahead. Each country has its own vibe, its own set of defenses, and youll need to outsmart them all if you want to take the world by storm. Its about strategynothing too flashy, just pure smooth, calculated moves. What really gets us, though? The fact that this game tests your charisma in a different way. Sure, youre not impressing people with your words, but you are charming the world with your strategic genius. Theres something almost seductive about watching your disease evolve, spreading like wildfire while you stay two steps ahead of those pesky cure efforts. And when you finally see the world collapse under the weight of your genius? Thats the kind of feeling you only get when you know youve got it all under control. Plus, the replay value is insane. Each playthrough is different, and youve gotta adjust your approach every time. So, whether youre going for the classic virus or switching things up with a bio-weapon, youre always in the drivers seat. Its all about making the right moves and being patient. Timing is everything. And if you think you can handle that kind of smooth, methodical charm? Then welcome to Plague Inc.. Get it, play it, and watch the world bow to your brilliance. Rizz it up, baby.
This is a great game we mean bio weapon nano virus normal virus bacteria fungus parasite prion simian flu vampire neurax worm that is a lot and the game is complex the graphics the sound and effects of this game is great and cure mode you get to cure the world if you can its just good and cant wait to play after inc.
Ndemic creations game must be best.
It was so fun. We actually infected the whole entire earth and only 378 days theres different emoji you could go between what you could like verse somebody or you could co-op. Again, best game on earth.
This is a very realistic and educational game that teaches about the world with different modes and scenarios! Which each offer different abilities you can but its a very good game! Our mom got us it because its educational id highly recommend playing this.
We love how we need to strategize our DNA count and the cure, not to kill our host,and overall other fun game mechanics! We really recommend this game.
The game is really good but we get sad thinking about the world falling down.
Super fun to play Ive been playing since we were like 7.
A bit addicting but a great game. Might have to pay for add ons here and there but overall worth it.
Im a 13 yr old but its very hard. Id like if you could make it easier to unlock the different plagues or give us them Thank you.
Game is awesome gave it 4 stars because the graphics quality is super basic but literally everytime we play this game (Ive had it a long time) and our plague finally wins and defeats the worldI get super sick irl.
Great game in general ngl, during the tutorial it says the world is hyper realistic or something and you should pay attention to the news as it updates based on real time events occurring from your virus. First news line we get Texas bans guns.
This game is fun to play casually. However, if you have any interest whatsoever in fully completing the game and getting all achievements, you might wanna find something else to play. This game has several RNG elements that will decide whether or not youll win, and in a majority of achievement-based scenarios youll have no control over said elements. Ive spent entire days now trying to complete the Super Sparrow achievement, and Im starting to think it might be genuinely impossible on mobile since you cant abuse save files. Ill improve our rating if the achievements become less boring and more doable, but until then we strongly advise that any completionists avoid this game like the plague it has you playing as.
Its all right they dont even have a sandbox mode or you have infinite DNA that would be fun but its just boring and it gets us frustrated that when Im mutates it takes away the DNA and then we lose we dont wanna keep losing in a game. Its just boring.
This is really good, but the more you play it the more boring it gets if you have three dollars laying around and you wanna play a quick cool game we suggest this fun but once you unlock everything its normal and boring but if youre new, it can get challenging and hard so would we recommend this game for long play? No its mostly paid to win. Its an amazing game but if you want to do the real fun stuff, you have to get too expensive packs and the free viruses take forever to get sometimes if youre good so do we suggest no we got bored of it quickly when we beat the game if youre good at the game gameplay will take at least one to five days to complete we know some of the hype might sound good but dont buy it.
Ive been watching angolia sit with 1 single person infected for years and years of in game time. In that time, we spent about ~60 DNA points (end game mind you) on transmission upgrades. We specifically made sure to pick the ones for hot climates. After spending 60 points and watching another several years pass, nothing changed. 1 single person infected while every other country is full or halfway full of infected. How old is this game now? Are we being serious? Is there a secret to playing on hard mode that Im just not getting? This is extremely frustrating and this is not a player issue, this is a development issue. Thought we found a good cheap game to kill time. And boy did it. In the most annoying frustrating way possible. Do not buy this game unless youre content with only experiencing 10% of it without pulling your hair out.
We understand that this game is popular and needs money to make revenue, but its very hard for us to want to buy/play this game and the other games knowing that we have to pay for things that should already be included. We like this game, but its sad to see it become more money hungry. Also, we really feel like it shouldnt be so difficult to get DNA points when the whole map is red, its so unnecessarily difficult.
Extremely fun to play once you get the hang of it.
So theres a weird bug where when you do causal and you win it keeps saying theres 30 million people alive even tho there isnt and now we cant level up from bacteria.
If youre looking for a fun experimental game, this is your game. Well it does. Cost money has no ads and its very good.
We love the game, however, when the game got accidentally deleted, it removed all our progress. We had the all plague pack with the neuro virus, vampire, zombie and simian flu packs. We have to pay to get those back and am wondering why.
We didnt know we would have to purchase it and it will show that we already bought it and itll give us our stuff. Im sorry.
Dont get any symptoms, make sure you effect all humans next get symptoms.
Playing this game its kind of fun and kind of addicting. Dont get us wrong. We do kinda feel guilty, but we get to see the world fall into chaos while we affect them. Its like the black death all over again.
So casual and probably the best infection/build up game we have ever plays.
Great game overall. Fun to do when youre bored.
This game changed the way we view Greenland.
This game is complex and very in depth. Every game is different and there are so many options to choose from from.
This might just be us failing horribly at this game because Im stupid, but itsreally hard. Like, REALLY hard. On normal mode that is. On peaceful, its ok, but you cant earn new plagues if you do that, soa little bit sad. But otherwise? This game is completely amazing. 5 stars, the best.
This is [[THE BEST STRATEGY GAME]] we have ever played and we would recommend [[THIS GAME]] to everyone and anyone we have and will ever meet.
You know after we have a bad day we wanna take our rage out and destroy the earth with a virus and this is the perfect game to do that in.
We love it we mean its just like the real game. You know the only thing we could complain about is the price.
Always wanted to play this game before. We thought this game was only on pc but we searched it up on mobile and saw it. Great game.
Dont have any complaints really fun game suggest getting it your gonna become addicted.
Best mobile game ever this could keep us entertained all day recommended 5 stars :).
We cant stop playing, especially with Scenario Creator.
This is the best game in the universe.
Its a good game but we feel as though its gets hard when you barely get DNA because everyone is infected.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.22.1
- Size: 109.59 MB
- iOS: 9.3 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: [Ndemic Creations LTD]()
Last updated: 26th November 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Ndemic Creations LTD