Plague Inc: Evolved

Plague Inc: Evolved (simply Plague Inc in the App Store and Google Play) is a RTS and Simulation game developed and published by Ndemic Creations.

Plot
With a new, unknown and underdeveloped disease, you must use it to infect 'patient zero' and attempt to wipe out all of humanity. But beware, as soon as the humans discover your disease, they will start to do everything they can to limit its infection rate, and develop a cure to wipe your disease out completely. Can your disease infect the world before the world defeats you?

Why It's Truly A Global Pandemic

 * 1) As with some apps, The App Store/Google Play version of the game is free (albeit some items and diseases are locked behind microtransactions).
 * 2) It has an interesting concept: creating pathogens that try to wipe out humanity and destroy the world.
 * 3) Hyper-realistic mechanics, such as the countries establishing quarantine zones and closing their borders to limit the spread of your disease.
 * 4) A variety of diseases, each one being different from the last.
 * 5) * Two very unique diseases include the Simian Flu (created via a partnership between Ndemic Creations and 20th Century Fox for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes franchise) and the Necroa Virus (a virus that can turn all dead into zombies).
 * 6) You can create your own disease and upload it for others to play against.
 * 7) There is multiplayer; you can either work with someone to destroy the world or have a race to see who can destroy the world first.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The game can get a little bit scary due to it's goal of exterminating all human.
 * 2) The game also glorifies pathogens and disease for self explanatory reasons.
 * 3) Furthermore, the game has sufficient bad morals, but its understandable given that the protagonist/player is a villain.
 * 4) In addition, it can also get very frustrating due to it's difficulty. A notable example is Bio-Weapon in Cure Mode.
 * 5) Greenland is very hard to infect due to its lack of airport and cold climate. Most player tend to lose because Greenland closes its port before it can be infected. This is also the case with Madagascar or Caribbean.
 * 6) Not Another Zombie Game is very hard to get due to how easy the Necroa Virus can be cured, and the only way to win is with the Rabies event, which is highly luck-based.

Trivia

 * The game has attracted the attention of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for its hyper-realism and 'spreading awareness on disease transmission.'
 * The developer was then invited to the CDC to give a talk about the game.
 * The game's main map is based off of an epidemic model, used both by the CDC and World Health Organization (WHO).
 * The news feed (in the top left corner of the screen) is full of references and Easter eggs.
 * The game saw a huge increase in sales when COVID-19 began spreading.
 * In early 2019, a Change.org petition was started to include anti-Vaxxers as a buff within the game.
 * After getting over 20,000 signatures, the developer and publisher Ndemic Creations said that they were going to add it in.