This is how Ice-Pick Lodge and HypeTrain Digital present a playable version of the survival horror title (Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes did something similar, but it was paid).

Pathologic 3: Quarantine is a narrative-driven adventure about a young scientist in search of immortality and a mysterious plague outbreak in a small town. Learn how your story began and what drove a celebrated scientist to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and take your first steps toward defeating death. Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky is a celebrated young doctor from the capital. The powers that be do not appreciate his quest for immortality. A rumor of an immortal man living in a distant steppe city could be the breakthrough he needs… if he can get to him.

Bachelor’s story is told through the subjective lens of the narrator and through the lens of his pursuers. Did he really do all the things he is accused of, or did he not? Can he fix his own story by going back in time and making different choices? See how this non-chronological story begins in Patholoic 3: Quarantine. Fight the Sand Plague by examining and diagnosing patients, but also by investigating their lives to find out the unpleasant truths they may be hiding. Issue decrees based on your findings to save more lives. Face the terrifying personification of the plague in burning flesh. Dankovsky is a sharp mind in search of the truth, willing to do anything to find it. Everything you see can tell a story and become part of your mental map of the world. Look at everything around you, connect the dots, and read the world!

Pathologic 3: Quarantine will be released only for PC on March 17th (and will be free), and Pathologic 3 will be released for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC sometime this year, but no word on the time of year yet as that hasn’t been announced.

Source: Gematsu