The last few weeks have been rather tumultuous for Ndemic Creations: their main game, Plague Inc, was banned from China — with the governement alleging that it contains "illegal content". The studio had even to explain that its game isn't a true scientific simulation. The Chinese population has indeed rushed on the title to see a little bit how all this could be spread by reaping a huge increase in sales of the game in this territory.
Ndemic is splitting a very nice donation of $250,000 to help research against the Coronavirus and also announce a new mode that is the exact opposite of the game's basic principles.
Your mission will be to save the world from an epidemic in a peaceful mode.
You will have to ensure that the progression of the disease is contained while improving health systems, a mode that is being carried out in collaboration with many scientific organizations. Finally, the team points out that this update will be available for free for the duration of the epidemic. For more details, the full Ndemic statement can be found here.
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