Infection: Humanity's Last Gasp

Players act as directors of a plague control field office responding to a newly emerged, rapidly mutating virus. They hire lab personnel, acquire equipment and allocate funding to research parts of the pathogen and assemble vaccine components from randomly generated protein tiles. Gameplay combines personnel and equipment card effects with dice-based containment checks and status-event cards that introduce complications. Casualties and a rising death-toll track increase stress and force riskier actions; failed containment rolls advance the outbreak toward loss. The game supports solo play and emphasizes resource management, worker selection and tactical sequencing under time pressure.

Players: 1
Playing time: 45 min
Age: 13+
Complexity: 2.1 / 5

9.5 on LudoyaMedicalDice RollingAction / EventSolo / Solitaire Game

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Design: John Gibson
Art: Chris Kiser
Michelle Ball
Barry Pike, III
Publisher: Victory Point Games

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Plays logged: 3
Players: 48m 45s
Average play: 6
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9.5/10

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Wayne10.0
Now that I have a workable scoring system, to ten goes the rating. Now I can lose (and win someday) with different degrees of victory/loss. Below is what I'm using: If you didn't cure the virus, subtract :bd6-1: for each remaining card in the status deck If you did cure the virus, add :d6-1: for each remaining card in the status deck. Everything below applies to both victory and loss games. Add :d6-1: point for each dollar of funding. Add :d6-5: points for each level on the death toll between your marker and the skull. Add :d6-2: points for each uncured molecule in the vaccine area. (Points for working fast) Add :d6-1: for each cured molecule in the vaccine area (1 point for each, even if there are multiple molecules of the same letter). Subtract :bd6-1: point for each protein in the vaccine area (unfinished work is wasteful)
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