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COVID-29

A third person, action-adventure game with a medieval and biology style. Explore inside the human body as a COVID-virus fighting your way past enemy white blood cells and immune proteins. Find and infect cells to score points.

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Noah Hans Nikodemus Nilsson Wadstrom
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Noah Hans Nikodemus Nilsson Wadstrom
Release
November 4, 2025
270 days ago
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About the Game

Explore inside the human body as a COVID-virus. A single player, action-adventure, indie game created by a doctor.

Gameplay

  • Single player

  • Third person

  • Punching

  • Kicking

  • Shooting magic projectiles

  • Item attacks

  • Climbing

Style

  • Action-Adventure

  • Souls-like elements

  • Medieval mixed with biology style

  • Platforming

Character

Play as a customized COVID-virus, choosing your own colors and surface protein shape.

Goals

  • Work your way through the body and infect as many cells as possible

  • Collect resources to craft items

  • Kill immune cells and immune proteins

Enemies

  • White blood cell warriors (Neutrophils)

  • Spawner drone (B-cells)

  • Shooter drone (Plasma cells)

  • Wild spiders (C1 immune proteins)

  • Wild worms (Protease protein)

Shooter drone (Plasma cell)

White blood cell warriors (Neutrophils)

Items and crafting

Consumable biology-related items can be crafted from peptide resources collected through the maps by breaking bush-like proteins.

Maps

Explore several maps in different parts of the human body.

  • Airways

  • Lung sac

  • Nose

  • Lymph node

  • Vocal chords

  • Lung airway

  • Lung sac

  • Nose with olfactory neurons (smell-sensing)

  • Lymph node with lymph vessels

  • Vocal chords

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