To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Plague Inc., the development team Ndemic Creations released the big data of the game, which also has more than 180 million players around the world, and also held a community quiz on Reddit, and they released The data is very interesting because it is very realistic.
“Plague Inc.” is a strategy game that simulates the spread of epidemics. It was first released on the mobile platform in 2012. The player’s purpose is to study the spread of viruses and bacteria, and use genetic mutations to kill as many humans as possible. Various modes are also developed in the late game, including antidote or zombie virus infection.
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— Plague Inc. / Rebel Inc. (@NdemicCreations) May 26, 2022
According to the official data collected for ten years, the plague named by the most players is “Covid-19”, which is the new crown virus, the second is the “death” plague, the third is “Poop”, and the latter is the name of the plague. Also super interesting, like “T virus”, “Trump”, “Tik Tok”, “Sus” (Among Us stalk), “Fortnite”.
In addition, the outbreak point of the plague selected by the player at the beginning of the game, the first place is densely populated China, and the last place is Finland. This is because the conditions for the spread of the plague in the game will determine the speed and efficiency of the spread according to factors such as population density, medical level and people’s health concept, and China and India have always been very good starting points for spreading.
The other data also includes the most common types of plagues players choose, the first is “bacteria”, the second is “fungus”, and the third is “virus”.
The most interesting thing is that the official also released the original design of the game in 2011. The prototype screen has only a few color blocks, which is very simple, but no one knows that this game will eventually be favored by hundreds of millions of players.
It is worth mentioning that in 2020, due to the increasing spread of the new crown pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, the mobile game version of Plague Inc was removed from the Chinese App Store without warning. At that time, the developer Ndemic Creations announced in detail that it was removed. The reason is thatGame content deemed illegal by China。
