
The game series has been praised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who said "it uses a non-traditional route to raise public awareness on epidemiology, disease transmission, and diseases/pandemic information. The developer has said that the game was inspired by Pandemic 2, a browser-based Flash game released in 2008 by Dark Realm Studios. However, there is a time pressure to complete the game before humans, the opponent, develop a cure for the plague. The player must infect and kill the whole world population by evolving the plague and adapting to various environments. the player controls a plague which has infected patient zero. The core game of Plague Inc: Evolved is the same as Plague Inc. The game uses an epidemic model with a complex and realistic set of variables to simulate the spread and severity of the plague and has attracted the attention of the CDC.

In the game, the player creates and evolves a pathogen in an effort to destroy the world with a deadly plague. The game is a remake of the developer's previous game, Plague Inc., for PC and consoles.

Game Review Plague Inc: Evolved is a real-time strategy simulation video game, developed and published by UK-based independent games studio Ndemic Creations.
