- Point-and-click, Adventure, Historical
The plague spreads fear and agony in the small town of Wippra. As a doctor, you help where you can. Then medieval superstition and religious zeal mix into a deadly threat.
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Character
Grave, classical in form, raw and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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Hey Poor PlayerHeather Johnson YuDec 20224/5The Plague Doctor of Wippra is clearly a bleak, gamified examination of a dark period in human history; what makes it bleaker is its illumination on just how little has changed. Despite our modern comforts and conveniences, human behavior under duress seems to remain constant. And in the midst of all these cascading, convoluted moving parts, The Plague Doctor of Wippra asks players to think carefully of their choices, knowing that sometimes, the best of two evils is the best one can do. If you’re seeking a short-lived point-and-click journey through time where the choices really, really matter, The Plague Doctor of Wippra is accepting patients.
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FingerGunsSean DaviesOct 20228/10While it’s a short, compact and competent point and click adventure at face value, The Plague Doctor of Wippra works best between the lines. A thinly veiled examination of the human condition during a health crisis, the game explores how little has really changed since the bubonic plague and the Middle Ages. If you like your adventures games to be deep rather than funny, this one is for you.
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Jump Dash RollRob KershawOct 20227/10It doesn't make any strides in advancing the genre, but brevity, timeliness and an allegorical story mean that The Plague Doctor of Wippra's gameplay faults can mostly be overlooked.
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EntertainiumGareth BradingOct 2022It’s worth seeing for the unique setting, but its brevity, lack of character and worldbuilding leave The Plague Doctor of Wippra feeling rather underbaked.
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Snippets via OpenCritic, where 83% of critics recommend it.
About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- Electrocosmos
- Publisher
- Application Systems Heidelberg
- Released
- October 5, 2022
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 2 h main story · 3 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.5/10 from 9 ratings.
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