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Video games about viral outbreaks

  • Resident Evil (2002 video game)Resident Evil, the 2002 survival horror game that Capcom made for the GameCube, ended its development with an exhausting sprint. Its programmers worked for two straight months with no days off to meet the deadline. The game was a remake of…
  • The Last of UsThe Last of Us is a video game series from the studio Naughty Dog, published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, and by early 2023 the franchise had sold more than 37 million games. It takes place in a United States ruined by a mutated…
  • Resident Evil 3 (2020 video game)Resident Evil 3 is a horror game from Capcom, released in 2020, in which a former police officer named Jill Valentine tries to get out of a city full of zombies. She is not simply fleeing. Something was built to find her, and it keeps…
  • Resident Evil 2 (2019 video game)Resident Evil 2, the 2019 survival horror game from Capcom, begins on the night of the 29th of September 1998. A rookie police officer named Leon S. Kennedy is heading for Raccoon City to start his first shift. A college student named…
  • The Last of Us (video game)The Last of Us, a 2013 action-adventure game from Naughty Dog, ends with a man swearing to a girl that his story is true. It is not. Joel gives the oath because Ellie insists on it. Everything before that moment is a long walk toward it.…
  • The Last of Us Part IIThe Last of Us Part II is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It unfolds in a post-apocalyptic United States, four years after the studio's The Last of Us of 2013. Two…
  • The Last of Us Part IThe Last of Us Part I, released in 2022, rebuilt almost everything about a famous game and left its story completely alone. Naughty Dog developed it, and Sony Interactive Entertainment published it. It remakes a 2013 game in which the…
  • Resident Evil 4 (2023 video game)Resident Evil 4, Capcom's 2023 survival horror remake, earned an unusual compliment from the man who made the original. Shinji Mikami, who directed the 2005 game, said on Twitter that he enjoyed the remake very much. He also admitted that…
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops IIICall of Duty: Black Ops III, the 2015 shooter from the studio Treyarch, was built by a team that once looked at its own progress and saw almost nothing. In March 2026, creative director Jason Blundell recalled that moment. When the…
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainMetal Gear Solid V was first announced as an indie game from a fake Swedish studio. Kojima's team made it.
  • BloodborneIn the game Bloodborne, the miracle cure that heals almost any ailment slowly turns people into beasts.
  • Days GoneIn Days Gone, a horde of the game's infected can number anywhere from 50 to 500. Every one of them is chasing a single man on a motorcycle. That man is Deacon St. John, a former outlaw biker in post-apocalyptic Oregon. He has just learned…

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