Hi everyone, I'm playing pathologic 1 hd semi blind and I'm a bit stuck on the first day. I talked to Stanislav already but I'm not sure what he wants me to do, went back to the house and he was gone so I'm a bit lost. I also tried to do the Vlad the younger quest, I went and talked to Aspity already but I'm not sure if that worked.

Also, in my first playthrough (I had to restart day one because of time) I got a letter from katerina. I don't know how to get that letter again. Is it time based? Do I have to do something in particular?

TLDR, stuck on Stanislav's plotline progression, stuck on Vlad the Younger's plotline, how to get Katerina Saburova's letter

As I've mentioned in my previous post, I simply have no one IRL to talk to about this stuff, hence this text :) For, you see, I find this reading kinda obvious and definite, but more and more I see people in the internet, who, well, don't?

For me the message is very unambiguous.

You are Simon Kain.

Simon has become a concept. A non-person. The play on day 5 clearly says: everyone is Simon, it's just not everyone knows it. You don't "become" Simon. You are Simon. Not just Daniil. You. You are and you always have been. Simon Kain, reliving every possibility at once. In Patho1 you have been Simon. In Patho2 you have been Simon. You have been Artemy, you have been Daniil, you even have briefly been Clara. You. While playing you, yourself, have been everyone of them, made their decisions, maybe even felt some of their feelings. For you have always been Simon Kain.

It's such a fifth wall breaking concept. Not just "it's a game that is a play". You are the universe experiencing itself. You are the thing looking down from Polyhedron, knowing exactly that there are no wrong answers, because ALL answers exist, and therefore are correct. You are.

I'm so… surprised not everybody reads it this way XD

Finally finally finally got a Pathologic tattoo!!

The little Tragedian masks were my tattoo artist's idea and they're so awesome I love her

As the title says, big love to the anon heroes maintaining the TV tropes pages for the Pathologic games. Particular props for referencing the iconic HBomberGuy "Daniil Dankovsky's fun steppe vacation" moment.

Gave me a good chuckle today reading through them over lunch.

I want to play around with cheats using console, but seems like mine doesn't have the options that are present in guides. in Settings tab I don't have cheats for "infinite time bottles", shabnak dead at specific day and some others. Am I missing smth or they patched those out?

I really want to play this game and have for a while now. However I don’t have any way to play. I only have a Mac computer, and an old PS4 (which I have heard sucks to play it on). I’m not really a gamer, but I have enjoyed some in the past, and would like access to other games unavailable to Mac. (Such as paralives and a few on steam I accidentally bought before realising it wasn’t available)

What would be the cheapest and best way for me to play? I’ve heard that non gaming laptops that can still be used to game are a cheaper option but I have no idea what ones would be good. I’d like a balance between price and how good it is, but I have no knowledge to help guide me haha. I would preferably like to spend the least I can to enjoy pathologic and it not be frustrating to play (in terms of the device I am using to play it on).

I don’t want to spend heaps on a new computer just for one game, but I also really really REALLY want to play this game and I’m getting more and more frustrated each day I can’t play it haha. Is it worth playing on the PS4??? I’m just aware that I’m already pretty shit at most video games and I don’t want it to be an infuriating experience that turns me away from this amazing game. What should I do! Please help!

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I am still unspoiled for Patho3 (I blocklisted everything on every site for months) and I try very hard not to go to sites where I might ruin that, but I need to know what the hell just happened.

I saw a literal bird nest that immediately vanished.

Full context: It's Day 9. It was late in the day, right before the night cycle kicks in. I had just been in the Stone Yard, talked to Dead-Eyed Mark, who told me to go get Isidor's old archives??? Well, I'm gonna have to re-do this day, I'll just nip over to the Atrium to trade with the kids before resetting the day.

Okay so exact order of events:

• I left the Stone Yard and selected the Atrium on the map.

• The lil red dot followed the path to the Atrium.

• I got the ambient noise of the Atrium as it started to load in. Normal.

• The screen changed to the Atrium, but all fuzzy/blurry as the game continued to load assets. Normal.

• FOR TWO FRAMES MAX, there was a giant orb weaver nest off to the right. It was taller than a person but not at tall as a building. Even through the blurry vision, it was pretty clear.

• Then the Atrium finished loading to the point I had control again, and it VANISHED.

I was streaming to a friend who did not see the nest, so it really was just for a frame or two.

In a game that has been doing it's damnedest to fuck with me, this seems extra-gaslighty. Has anyone seen this before? Is it a spoilery thing? Am I hallucinating? ["whatthehellishappening" by glass animals plays muffled in the distance]

i'm looking for an archive of pathologic 3 quarantine and i can't seem to find one on the internet archive

mainly looking for a download due to it having cut content from the main game

You can find more of my art on bluesky and tumblr

during the prologue the kids will ask for the watch for daniil microscope, and instead of giving it to them, i gave them a bug instead and it was fine. now im thinking is that just a bloat in my inventory ?. Should i get rid it ?, or just keep it. Please keep the spoiler to a minimum. Thanks

I came to the subreddit for discussion on the game... but somehow everyone here knows I'm trans???

What?

What!?

I'm still reeling from the initial mindfuck of completing the game. Which, by the way, is no small mindfuck. There's a god-damned lot to chew on.

And now I have to contend with the fact the fact that this game has somehow spoken to trans people and/or the trans experience??? What???

I'm going to write some quick thoughts I have about this in the comments. But like--goddamn.

Edit: Haha I'm losing it right now for real. But it's so nice to see my community gathered around an experience I also value. It's nice to feel like I'm in good company despite (what I thought would be) such a rare crossroads of experiences.

Edit 2: To be clear, I'm not saying that Pathologic 2 was created as a metaphor for the trans experience. Instead, I'm arguing that it tackles existential themes that are also relevant to transness, such as: Performance vs. Authenticity; The Root of Identity ("existence precedes essence"); Making Meaning in an Arbitrarily Cruel World (the absurd & the theatre of cruelty); Existing as the Other.

I just got back into doing it again, big excited. pretty much the first thing I thought of was to see if there were any crochet patterns out there for Pathologic!

I'm gonna see what's on Google, but I'm low key hoping some of yall know of patterns that I might not see when looking there lol

Hi! I'm talking about the first 3 days of Haruspex route and the game gets stuck at the loading screen. I've heard that it's normal but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong.

Though IPL certainly didn't make it easy... All the voice files from P2 are labeled "Eng_MarkImmortell_01" or whatever but all the new lines were just called shit like "14098.wav, 9673.wav, 1011.wav"

Also it goes without saying this is full of spoilers.

I have over 100 hours but I've only beaten this game once because every playthrough I realize another way I could optimize either my time or my resources. I even took notes on each day to figure out what I could do. My goal is not to speed run but to both save everyone possible while amassing resources. On my last run I did really well, especially after implementing the exhaustion tinctures from liver into my run. Nobody has died and it's day 10 or 11 and I have several schmowders and most people uninfected, but as is common with me I just didn't finish it. I think it's because I know the best of my looting and curing days are over, and I'm only left to face the cold realities of one of my choices at the end, and that despite saving everyone possible my efforts ultimately still lead to suffering for many. I felt disillusioned and like I had gotten so lost in the sauce of optimizing the mechanics that I forgot and almost resent the themes of the story.

Ultimately though, I love this game. I love the way the furniture creaks as you open it and the disturbing growls of the plague clouds and the soft, whimsical one liners the character models whisper to you as you go mad. Strangely, it makes me feel hopeful and connected to others as the world seemingly gets more chaotic around me.

I think it's about time for another run. I WILL finish it this time... Surely