Announced in October 2024, Pathologic 3 promises to blend the notorious weirdness of the Pathologic series with a new twist: Time travel, enabling players to «revisit key events and alter them» in hopes that things will turn out slightly less awful than they did the first time around.
We still don't have a release date, although it's slated to be out in 2025, but we'll soon be able to get a taste of what's coming in Pathologic 3: Quarantine, a free prologue chapter that's set to arrive in March.
Pathologic 3: Quarantine follows the tale of Daniil Dankovsky, a doctor from the capital who travels to a distant small town in search of immortality.
This irritates his superiors, who take him to task for his presumed missteps, but did he really do (or not do) the things he's accused of?
And if he did (or did not), can he go back in time to change his choices and correct his mistakes? Normally, I would say no, you can't go back in time so you might as well learn to live with it, but this is Pathologic, so probably a little bit of chronological hopscotch is in the cards.