both in terms of mechanics but also themes. Plague Inc. was about spreading a pandemic with the goal to infect the entire world, which hits a bit close to home after the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the 1600s, understanding of what caused and spread the plague was limited. Some saw it as God’s punishment on a sinful population and thought the best way to fight the disease was through prayer.

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...

Three of the world’s seven known pandemics have been caused by the plague, a bacterial infection triggered by the Yersinia pestis microbe. It can be treated with antibiotics but none of the ...