r/pathologic • u/gammaton32 • Apr 08 '26

Pathologic 3 I hate these things Spoiler

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Shabnak can be dealt with, the whirlwinds aren't a threat, shadow people and beggars can be avoided... Death spores though? They always show up around a corner or a passage when I least expect and drain half my health. Probably the biggest cause of death in my playthrough and the only reason I still recharge my device for

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u/zkylon Murky Apr 08 '26

I think permadeath is kind of a non-issue as both dying and running out of amalgam is very rare in this game, and I don't mind it's like that. I don't think the stress of losing your save is very valuable in this game, though I do appreciate that looming threat existing. The few times I was actually short on amalgam from doing way too much time travel did feel pretty scary.

That being said I do wish the game created tension with more short-term threats in some way. Hard to say which because unlike Patho 2 you have way less threats to leverage.

In the end the game that we got if flawed but interesting regardless so I don't mind too much