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Potential release date!!

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:57:11 GMT

Just a few minutes ago, Ice-Pick Lodge posted this tweet:

— Ice-Pick Lodge (@IcePickLodge) October 4, 2024

A release date with no context for October 7th 2024... we can only speculate, but here's hoping the Bachelor route is imminent!!!

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[LEAK] More Bachelor route reveals...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:49:08 GMT

Well! This may be old news by now (seeing as I never hit Post on this entry) but WE HAVE A LEAK!!

On January 2nd of this year, some people on Ice-Pick Lodge's community Discord server discovered a page on Anna Pimonova's website, who is one of the narrative designers for the upcoming Bachelor route. It appears to be a pitch/description of what the Bachelor route was going to be like, including new screenshots, concept art, and some basic descriptions of what the route will be like.

The site was taken down soon after being posted in the Discord, but fans have been able to preserve the content of the website here:

Tumblr post with intact assets
Neocities fan recreation

Of particular note are the mentions of "time traveling" and "city manager simulator elements". Looks like we're gonna be in for an interesting new gameplay loop with the Bachelor...

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Teaser for the Bachelor route demo?!

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:04:38 GMT

Happy new year, everyone! Ice-Pick Lodge opened the new year on a great note by releasing a new article to their Teletype showing off some visuals from the Bachelor route. Rejoice!

The screenshot below shows what is seemingly a preview of mechanics present in the Bachelor route. The player will have to examine patients and even do some detective work to identify the proper diagnosis. It almost feels like they're making ANOTHER game inside the game!

...these peculiar individuals who refuse to die are the key to victory. Unusual patients are glitches in the program. By collecting a sufficient number of these "glitches," you can create a vaccine.

Seems like the quest for the vaccine is going to be a lot more involved than it was in the previous game, where the player passively waited for Rubin to develop it.

You can find the original post here:
https://teletype.in/@icepicklodge/1UeQEI9YTAS

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PATHOFEST | Моросентябрь 2023 - Pathologic-themed art prompts!

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:07:57 GMT

Pathofest begins TODAY!

Pathofest is an annual unofficial Monthly Art Challenge hosted on social media which began in 2022. Starting in September, the month of the twyre blossoms, there will be a prompt every day for artists, writers, cosplayers, and any other fans can share their love for Pathologic by posting a creative work designed around that particular day's prompt. It's a sequel/successor to the previous event account, @septhologic, which was a primarily Russian-language community event.

Make sure you post your Pathofest creations with the hashtag #pathologic_fest so the hosts and other Pathologic fans can share their appreciation for your work!

More details about the event can be found in this Twitter thread (Russian-language version linked in the last Tweet of the thread):

✨#PATHOLOGIC_FEST - September 1-30✨

Join the #pathologic universe art challenge! All topics and hashtags by which viewers and readers will find and follow your works here and in other social networks on the picture!

The rules are simple, about them - below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/5XVYruNP04
— ✨Pathologic Fest | Моросентябрь ✨ (@gorhon_stories) August 17, 2023

Other Pathofest links:
Twitter
Tumblr
Instagram
VK
Telegram channel
Donate to the Pathofest hosts!

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Bachelor route teaser image!

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 22:44:05 GMT

Ice-Pick Lodge has finally broken their silence on the Bachelor route, quelling fans' fears that it was cancelled or abandoned! Rejoice!

Lift up your theatre binoculars and take a look at the stage. Who is the character standing next to the protagonist? What does he want from Daniil and why does he lose his head?#Pathologic2Bachelor pic.twitter.com/qFBtVHmfel
— Ice-Pick Lodge (@IcePickLodge) September 8, 2023

It may just be one tweet, but us Ice-Pick fans have learned to take what we can get.

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Mysterious letters with Kickstarter rewards

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 06:50:06 GMT

Looks like we've got another ARG!

Many people who backed the Pathologic 2 Kickstarter have been receiving strange cards alongside their rewards. On February 8th, /u/crabiq posted their letter, which contained the letters "r f n e ?". The next set of letters arrived with /u/thealluringsnail's post, which gave us "A o l e s". Fans are speculating that the cards can be overlaid to reveal a message.

Another user, /u/DerpForceAlpha, received a train ticket for "Dankovsky D." instead of a card, which ended up leading to a Reddit account that links to a letter signed by "Daniil". It appears to be the same letter Isidor sent to Daniil in the original Pathologic.

Read more on the Reddit thread covering the mystery.

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