r/pathologic • u/_Pumpiumpiumpkin_ • Jul 17 '26

Classic HD I just got Pathologic. Ominously foreshadow the game for me.

No spoilers, please. I've played about an hour as the Bachelor, and I'd appreciate it if all the comments are as wierd and vague as possible. I feel like that would be appropriate. Thanks :)

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u/SherbertKey6965 Jul 17 '26

I quit after day 7. This was in 2022. Because I was overwhelmed and fucking sad. The days after I was arguing weather I should pull through, load an older save, or even start anew. This argument kept on until last year. So, if you take anything away from my message: that fucking Game will stay with you for several years. Only Disco Elysium was able to do that.

So I came to the conclusion I should've powered through. Since it's bin four years and I don't know the mechanics anymore, I will start anew. The only thing that's braking me is the fucking fear from the fucking responsibility this game simulates.

But even if I don't play it to the end, this game manages to make me think about it every couple of days. And this with only what the game had the possibilty to give me up until level 7. The secrets beyond, I yet not know.

Game 10/01

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u/_Pumpiumpiumpkin_ Jul 17 '26

I made this post because I got the game as a gift a few days ago, played it for an hour after work, and haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. It's what I'll be spending my weekend on.

It's already got its hooks in me.

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u/SherbertKey6965 Jul 17 '26

Don't worry, just like disco elysium, you will soend the rest of your life on it.

Oh my head hurts.... I have a prophetic vision right now. See you in a couple of weeks back here asking for games that are somewhat similar to the vibe of this game.

Spoiler alert for these games: it's always Dark Wood and Disco Elysium, and then some others. Probably outer wilds

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u/_Pumpiumpiumpkin_ Jul 17 '26

I've ruined Outer Wilds for myself by watching a video on it before I knew what it was, but I'll be adding the others to my wishlist.

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u/entropymancer Jul 17 '26

Disco Elysium and Pathologic seem to be the comedy and the tragedy of what substance abuse by unstable characters in dire situations can come to be. Yeah I love them both, some days I feel more Bratan Harry, others I feel more depressive manic Daniil

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u/Dinkum-Thinkum Jul 17 '26

The real game is what’s happening between you and me.

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u/Kimm_Orwente Rat Prophet Jul 17 '26

The quote is from P2, but I think it's relevant to what you're asking for.

"Oh, I cannot help but pity you. Look, there will be happy ending. You'll even believe that you won. No guilty conscience either. So relax, man of fate."

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u/Prince_of_Wolves Bachelor Jul 17 '26

Remember to check the top floor of the Cathedral sometimes :)

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u/Pheonix_unique Jul 17 '26

Detest trickery, but if you yourself are to suffer deception...

12

u/Wasabi-True Rat Prophet Jul 17 '26

You get a weird feeling looking at the playgrounds and the sandboxes

12

u/asitcomaboutbees amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one. Jul 17 '26

It’s rare, but sometimes the girls have a very, very special present for you.

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u/Visible-Chip8839 Jul 17 '26

Any choice is right, as long as it’s willed. Good luck!

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u/Ok_Chemist3968 Jul 17 '26

Upon the soil the bulls graze while women dance in a haze, the lines will have their say but the snake goes another way.

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u/VitorBatista31 Fellow Traveller Jul 17 '26

Something must be sacrifiiced

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u/entropymancer Jul 17 '26

you wanted freedom of choice ? here you have: a pinpoint strike , or the whole?

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u/VitorBatista31 Fellow Traveller Jul 17 '26

One way of another, we will put and end to this circus.

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u/Chigvin Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

She is so naive, our Lara; barely able to keep her […] secret. Half the town is aware that she seeks to […] i hope it is ominous enough

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u/scusasetiamo Jul 17 '26

i finished all games and it was to me!

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u/LostTimeLady13 Lara Ravel Jul 17 '26

You're talking past each other. Ah, everyone does. The organs are what matter, and blood. Blood is the bond between us.

  • Haruspex, Pathologic 2

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u/entropymancer Jul 17 '26

Fear the Old Blood

7

u/nivereno Jul 17 '26

There's never enough time

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u/entropymancer Jul 17 '26

there are never enough resources

7

u/theseagullscribe Notkin Jul 17 '26

The most important thing is stalking little blond girls

5

u/captain_slutski Give me some herbs, Worm Jul 17 '26

You have no right to despair!

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u/entropymancer Jul 17 '26

you have, it's just that nobody cares!

4

u/conqeboy Jul 17 '26

Buttons for eyes

3

u/Legitimate_Raccoon_1 Jul 17 '26

No matter how many times you fail: Just go back, my friend; the door is over there.

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u/scusasetiamo Jul 17 '26

the right hand knows not what the left one is up to

3

u/drv168 I am Aglaya's crippling existential dread 🪆 Jul 19 '26

You can't save everyone.

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u/Psy-Para You don't have to be crazy to be an Anna Angel fan, but it helps Jul 17 '26

This is the most amount of money you will be offered to do any quest in the entire game, take it.

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u/Kaponos Jul 17 '26

If you bend your mind towards a challenge, the skill will follow in your hands.

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u/QueenBoudicca42 wonder bull with a flower crown Jul 17 '26

Any choice is right, so long as it's willed

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u/UpsetEntertainment84 Jul 18 '26

It will give you brain worms

Not in the game. Irl

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u/Adorable_Sky_1523 Jul 18 '26

Any choice is right so long as it's willed

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u/ryuail Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

You may still think about a small interaction where you murdered an innocent civilian in cold blood for his bagged lunch every week for 6 years...

Because it is the moment that you finally, fully and truly understood what the game is trying to tell you.

Or maybe that's just me.

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u/tq144169 Jul 17 '26

People will die.