On this week’s episode of Playing Yourself, we delve into an old best selling game, Plague Inc. This real time strategy simulation video game allows players to create and evolve a pathogen to infect humans, with the ultimate goal of wiping out the human race and watching countries’ governments fall. This game takes a lot of patience and focus as you continuously evolve your disease to make it more or less lethal, infectious, and severe. Plague Inc teaches its players about the importance of diseases and how they spread, while also raising public awareness about public health issues ascertaining to the very real threats that humans face every single day. Tune in to find out just exactly what makes this extremely realistic game so popular, and how it achieves its goal without scaring players off.
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