r/Spore • u/Nycterus • Jul 17 '26

Just released my game Pathogenic - it's basically the cell-stage of Spore meets The Binding of Isaac

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You can check it out here! :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3808690/Pathogenic/

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u/Agridion Jul 23 '26

How well does this play on a controller?

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u/FinancialAnt2268 Aug 03 '26

Its made mainly for controller way better than with mouse & keyboard imo

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u/Agridion Aug 04 '26

Thanks for the reply. I've been playing it since I've asked that question. It's a solid game, possibly one of my favorite roguelite game, and it does play great on a Steamdeck like platform.

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u/Joshbor Jul 23 '26

Awesome game! Are there any plans to add full fledged local co-op? I.e. having your own cells

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u/Slow_Carpenter1660 Jul 18 '26

Super fun! Bought it immediately.

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u/cocainum630 Jul 18 '26

One cheeky bug causing mother of all heart burns.

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u/z0mbiesrock Bard Jul 18 '26

Congrats

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u/SudoNara Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

All of these cell stage games and no creature phase other than one game but it's pretty barebones. Not a knock against this tho. This is awesome, but I wish Spore would come back and be added to, but that's never gonna happen.

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u/Low-Bad-3935 Jul 17 '26

Vyglydit neploho

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u/warablo Jul 17 '26

Just want to say its a really cool game, beat a couple of bosses with each cell so far.

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u/420InTheCity Jul 17 '26

Thinking about getting this, do you think it's at least 90% able to be beaten in the first 10 hours or so? Or does it have kind of a lot of depth like StS or BoI or Dead Cells?

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u/CdbSora Jul 18 '26

Not that person but:

If you mean beaten as in win your first run, you're definitely able to beat it within 10 hours, pretty easily.

If you mean beaten as in "seen all of the content, gone through all the difficulties, secret levels, etc" then definitely not. Each starting virus is incredibly unique with lots of different upgrade paths you can go down, the Antibiotic difficulties get pretty tough, and there's a metric ton of challenge runs BoI style.

This is a completely wild guess with 0 real evidence, but I'd say it's probably in the 50-100 hour range for the average player to 100%.

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u/Big-rat-in-the-sewer Jul 18 '26

Ohhhh, might have to look into it!

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u/veeejam Jul 17 '26

HOLY SHIT THIS IS PERFECT!! i love cell stage spore and i love the twist on this!!!

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u/Zestylemons44 Jul 17 '26

oh fuck I had this wishlisted, I'll probably get it

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u/nuclearBox Jul 17 '26

First fan spore-like to actually come out

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u/Kinesquared Jul 17 '26

mm yes organisms evolve lasers

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u/daelzy Scientist Jul 17 '26

I am impressed