Patient Zero: Virus Simulator

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.0
19.2K reviews
Content rating
Teen
1M+
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Content rating
Teen
Mild Violence
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About this game

Patient Zero is a new global virus idle simulator where you do not just watch the outbreak — you lead a secret underground lab creating and improving dangerous pathogens. This virus game combines long-term progress with continuous experiments and evolution.

In Patient Zero, your organization works from the shadows — gathering data, testing new pathogens, and releasing viral strains into the world. While governments try to stop the pandemic, you build your own system of spread — hidden, efficient, and designed for global infection. Every choice shapes the outbreak and the fate of disease worldwide.

This hybrid idle simulator mixes strategy, simulation, and progress. Your infections continue even when you’re away, but the most important decisions remain in your hands. Patient Zero delivers the tension of a pandemic simulator while focusing on lab management and pathogen evolution.

There are currently four main pathogens, each with unique viral strains:

* Virus
* Bacteria
* Parasite
* Fungus

A new pathogen — Nanobot — is in preparation, with more viruses on the way. Develop your lab, improve your pathogens, unlock stronger strains, and accelerate every stage of viral progress.

Your pledge to control, evolve, and dominate the global infection is in your hands.
Updated on
Jul 7, 2026
Available on
Android, Windows*
*Powered by Intel® technology

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info and 2 others
No data collected
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Data isn’t encrypted
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.0
17.3K reviews
Kody Conklin
July 22, 2025
Was fun at first but as some others have said the second pathogen is impossible to get past. You'll get near 4% with almost every mutation and it won't progress. And what's the point in fighting the cure reaserch when you cant fully stop it. You can have the bar at zero but it will just keep going. Either the game is broken and needs to be fixed or its a straight scam and needs to be taken down.
218 people found this review helpful
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Jason Zitzka
June 5, 2026
I like the game its really fun, but I agree the ads are making it unplayable I literally have to force close every few button interactions to make the ad go away. it wasnt as bad when I was doing them for quicker upgrades but now theirs no point since everything is moving insanely fast. so I think the developer made it so the less ads you personally click on the more frequent and amount they force you to go into. definitely wouldnt recommend, the sheer amount just make you mad.
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Angeleena Reimers
May 29, 2026
While I absolutely love this game, the amount of adds is absolutely ridiculous. I quite literally timed how long the time was between ads (its every 2 minutes btw) because of the sheer number of ads I was watching. I think its fun to play and I do enjoy playing it, but I never get to play it because I'm constantly in an ad.
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