What changed in Plague Inc: Evolved in 2026

Resolved an issue that caused the Peripheral Verge Outbreak to crash when launched.

Fixed an issue where in rare situations Active Abilities could stay inaccessible in Xenolith.

Country data updated to the latest global statistics, now 8,212,708,793 people worldwide.

Fixed issue where Darwin Award Outbreak modifier would pick starting traits.

Xenolith Genes are now counted in the 'Unlocked Genes' stats.

The free Plague Legacy scenario puts things back to the way they were in 2012.

The newly added Xenolith disease type is now part of the game.

Fixed an issue where Cure Research could go negative in Xenolith.

Fixed issue where people wouldn't be infected in situations where the population density is low (e.g. Where is everyone scenario)

Fixed issue where Leprosy would display as 'Parasite' instead of 'Bacteria'

This was a stealth bug from 2017.

Fixed an issue where 'Metabolic Hijack' wouldn't pop bubbles on a fully xeno-formed country

Players can vote on what's next for Plague Inc.

Corrected text when playing Xenolith and killing all humans.

Addressed issue of excessive crystal seeds on higher difficulties.

Easier to achieve 3 biohazards.

Fixed an issue where the Surgeon General advisor in Cure Mode had become locked.

Fixed an issue where 'XNA' could appear instead of 'DNA' in Outbreak origin selection.

Fixed an issue where the human response might develop Xenolith traits.

Multiple Asteroid impacts damage planet and reduce passive XNA gain (Brutal+).

Fixed an issue where the Leprosy 3D model was appearing as a Parasite instead of Bacteria.

GCOM teams no longer take damage from xenoformed land if it is inert.

GCOM are now able to research Xenolith more easily if it has large amounts of unused XNA.

Humans will more intelligently deploy Meteor Defense technology when needed.

Saving up too much XNA will reduce passive XNA gain if Xenolith isn't big enough (Brutal+).

Fixed an issue where devolving a lot of traits in Xenolith could reduce score.

Fixed an issue where the Xeno-Forming graph view could appear outside of Xenolith.

Fixed issue with Custom scenarios not starting.

Fixed a variety of localisation issues.

Fixed the dollar sign displaying for active ability costs outside of Cure Mode.

GCOM will now continue disruptor deployment even if they are in a country that recently stopped being disrupted.

Fixed an issue where scenarios could show '0' on the victory screen.

Fixed an issue where the double strain cheat created infected in the Zombies Vs Earth scenario.

Some text wasn't translating correctly; known issue persists with some text not translating, fix expected tomorrow.

Xeno-forming no longer appears on non-xenolith end screen graph

Final Xeno-form graphic updated.

Xenolith: 'Frequency Shift' can now be used against Prototype Disruptors.

Tooltips updated for Xenolith.

Known issue: Multiplayer modes not displaying infected countries correctly. Fix expected tomorrow.

Brutal and Mega Brutal difficulty adjustments: slightly less XNA, Research goes faster, abilities cost more XNA.

Known issue: Leprosy 'Rapid Abcesses' description incorrect.

Fixed an issue where the cursor would not show the active ability icon when an active ability was selected

Fixed an issue where buttons were selected in Multiplayer resulting in accidentally leaving a lobby

Fixed an issue where the cursor would be invisible on Steam Deck

Resolved an issue where buttons and menu items could not be selected, affecting Save and Load functionality.

Fixed an issue where a 'Y' glyph appeared on the World panel regardless of input method.

Fixed an issue where Saving and Loading in an Outbreak game while the 'Cough Drop' mutator was active would result in the costs of traits being significantly reduced further.

Vastly improved playing experience on Steam Deck.

Reworked glyphs and improvements to screen readability.

Variety of bug fixes relating to the Steam Deck controller.

Fixed issue where Multiplayer Traits weren't translating.

Fixed issue where replays in VS Multiplayer wouldn't play correctly.

Resolved the issue where all text would vanish in the game.

Reduced requirements for Outbreak Survivor, Veteran, and Legend achievements.

A huge update spreading unique diseases every day

Fixed issue where Traits would not devolve but would still give DNA points.

Fixed issue where 'Bonus Icon' would show on all Outbreaks.

Fixed issue where the 'Side Hustle' Mutator didn't give DNA points.

Minor UI fixes.

Fixed issue where outbreak origin countries could differ from Mobile.

Fixed issue which caused DNA bubbles to disappear much quicker than they should.

Improvements to Multiplayer Versioning.

Fixed issue where Mutators could be visually deselected.

Fixed issue where Mad Cow Disease Scenario Score threshold wasn't correctly awarding biohazards.

Improved Save / Load functionality.