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Virus

A frightening virus, Virus Q, is spreading in the major cities of the planet. Infected people and animals change rapidly, becoming horrible bloodthirsty and almost unstoppable creatures. Our only hope is to find the zero patient and the place where everything originated. There, p...

Players

1-6

Time

30-120

Age

14+

Weight

3.44

Rating

6.73

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Virus! has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players must frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, the game does not emphasize cooperation as much. Overall, it has a strong interaction score.

Teach 2.4

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.1

Scales well

Strategy 4.7

Deep strategy

Control 2.8

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Virus! has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players must frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, the game does not emphasize cooperation as much. Overall, it has a strong interaction score.

Replay value

Virus! has a high variability gameboard, offering different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing replayability. The game also has deep strategic possibilities and allows players to improve their tactics over time. With good scalability and moderate easiness to learn, Virus! has a solid replayability score of 8.0.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Virus! is 5.67. The game has a moderate level of randomness impact, with random elements having a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. There is some room for players to influence or mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, but luck still plays a significant role. The overall luck dependence is balanced, with a mix of luck and strategy determining the game outcome. Overall, Virus! has a moderate level of luck influence, making it suitable for players who enjoy a balanced mix of luck and strategy.

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A frightening virus, Virus Q, is spreading in the major cities of the planet. Infected people and animals change rapidly, becoming horrible bloodthirsty and almost unstoppable creatures. Our only hope is to find the zero patient and the place where everything originated. There, perhaps, we can find an antidote and return the hope to the dying humanity. But not everyone agrees. There are those who want to take advantage of the chaos and terror in order to gain power and establish a new form of government, trying to maneuver and control the monsters generated by the virus. A cure would ruin their plans forever. The virus was created in a secret military lab, in a space that's practically inaccessible. Inside, Virus Q spread for the first time, accidentally, maybe; the creatures that now inhabit the Lab are difficult even to imagine... In the innovative lab crawler game Virus, players are the team that infiltrates the Lab looking for the antidote to Virus Q. They will collect the few and fragmentary bits of information scattered in the laboratory, avoiding or fighting the monsters that populate it. The map generation and the movement/placement of monsters depends on the player actions with a semi-automatic mechanism controlling what takes place where. The fighting requires some dexterity elements as well as players must plan their tactics by combining their shooting power with available movement, achieving successes by rolling cubes. Also, the game takes place in real time! In sum, you can play Virus cooperatively, semi-cooperatively or competitively. The "infiltrator" option makes the game even more exciting and unpredictable!

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