Hey Parasites!

A MASSIVE thanks to all of you for such an incredible launch weekend! Seeing everyone playing our microscopic shooter and giving us so many kind comments and feedback these last few days really felt like a fever dream (or maybe the pathogen solved the puzzle and got to my brain?).

As of the time of this post, Pathogenic has reached 75,000k sales with Overwhelmingly Positive Steam reviews (95% positive and 1,000+ review count!), as well as a peak concurrent player count of almost six thousand!

We are super grateful to every one of you, whether you just joined the war against the immune system or you are a veteran parasite since demo launch. Appreciate all of you checking out Pathogenic and helping us shape the pathogens into what they are today.

And one more awesome piece of news: Pathogenic is officially Steam Deck Verified! Time to infect the host anytime, anywhere, and evolve the ultimate pathogen at the palm of your hand.

If you haven’t played Pathogenic yet, you can still pick up our game with a 20% launch discount, or even a bigger discount from some awesome bundles with our friends like Brotato, Everything is Crab and Voidling Bound. For those who enjoy our sick (pun intended) beats and concept art, we have a supporter pack for you to download all the OSTs and the artbook!

Once again, thank you, our dear community, for all your support along the way. The dev team is now hard at work fixing any issues that have popped up since launch. So if you have any feedback or suggestions, do let us know by commenting on Steam Discussions or on our Discord[discord.gg] bug report channel!

We hope you’re enjoying the pathogens’ adventures in the human body. And if you are, please consider leaving a review for Pathogenic if you can, because it really helps us spread the pathogen across Steam!

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On top of that, our cellular roguelike shooter has reached 3,000+ peak concurrent player count. These are incredible numbers for a game made by a humble dev team of two. The pathogen truly is spreading everywhere! From the bottom of our plague-ridden hearts, a big thank you to each and every one of you for making Pathogenic such a viral (medically) success.

If you haven’t started infecting the human body, Pathogenic is now on a 20% launch discount. Be sure to pick up our game while it lasts! And check out some awesome bundles we’ve set up with other excellent indie titles, including Brotato, Voidling Bound and Everything is Crab!

We’ve also seen quite a few players discussing strategies and tips on the discussion board. Just want to mention that we have an official Discord[discord.gg] where players talk about lore, share gameplay tips and show off crazy pathogens.

Finally, we really appreciate the glowing reviews and kind feedback so far. We can’t ask for a more active community to support our launch and help us keep improving the game. If you like Pathogenic, don’t forget to leave a review too as it really helps us push the game on the Steam (and spread the infection even further)!

Always remember, mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Matt has been grinding out updates since launch to catch any new issues, and you might noticed several patches have been implemented throughout the last 24 hours. Here's a compilation of the changes to Pathogenic all the way up to the time of this post:

• ~20 new Stomach & Liver rooms; retinted Lungs backgrounds.

• New Text Size setting (Normal / Large / Extra Large) under a new UI tab - defaults to largest on Steam Deck

• Added 30 and 45 FPS cap options.

• Graphics & physics settings are now saved per-machine and not synchronized with Steam Cloud

• Apoptosome damage 600 -> 800

• Continuous Laser now scales damage with charge

• Heart boss arcs are more forgiving to dodge

• Draft mutation picks (for amoeba and nanobot) that need placement can now be cancelled to refund the pick

• Ballistic Flagellum no longer fires over the level-up and pause screens

• Fixed full-game owners getting stuck in "demo mode" and walled after the Liver.

• Fixed a blood-particle crash/hitch and a dense-Liver-room crash

• Added a deeper save backup

• Fixed localization errors