Plague Inc. Downloads & RevenuePlague Inc. · App Store & Google Play
Plague Inc. gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plague Inc. by Ndemic Creations is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Full timeline · 58 events
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AR, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP, KR, MX, NL, RU, SE, TW
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AR, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP, MX, NL, RU, SE, TW
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AR, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP, KR, MX, NL, RU, SE, TW
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AR, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP, KR, MX, NL, RU, SE, TW, US
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, JP, KR, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, TW, US, ZA
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, JP, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, TW, US, ZA
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, JP, KR, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, TW, US, ZA
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CA, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, JP, KR, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, TW, US, ZA
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CA, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, JP, KR, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, TW, US, ZA
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1iOSTop Paid · Strategy · SA
- 🎉Plague Inc. in-app event: Leprosy ScenarioiOSMAJOR UPDATE · until 30 Nov
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · All Apps · PL · Top Paid · Games · PL
- 🎉Plague Inc. in-app event: Monster SeasoniOSSPECIAL EVENT · until 7 Nov
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1iOSTop Paid · Strategy · JP
- 📈Plague Inc.: #1 on iPad · Top Paid GamesiOSRU
- 📦Plague Inc. updated to version 1.27.3iOSLeprosy still infects around 200,000 new people every year due to social stigma and long incubation periods but thanks to modern medicine, it's fully treatable.
Can you save humanity's oldest disease from long-term decline?
- Struggle: How can Leprosy survive in a world full of treatments?
- Social Stigma: Leper Colonies don't work! Use myths about Leprosy to your advantage
- Overcome: Bring this almost forgotten disease back into the headlines
- Free Scenario for all players!… more - 📦Plague Inc. updated to version 1.27.3AndroidLeprosy still infects around 200,000 new people every year due to social stigma and long incubation periods but thanks to modern medicine, it's fully treatable.
Can you save humanity's oldest disease from long-term decline?
- Struggle: How can Leprosy survive in a world full of treatments?
- Social Stigma: Leper Colonies don't work! Use myths about Leprosy to your advantage
- Overcome: Bring this almost forgotten disease back into the headlines
- Free Scenario for all players!… more - 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Simulation · KR
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1iOSTop Paid · Strategy · KR
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Simulation · VN
- 📈Plague Inc. charting in a new countryAndroidVietnam
- 📊Plague Inc. passed 10k downloads a dayiOS7-day average, our estimate
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Simulation · ES · Top Grossing · Simulation · MX · Top Grossing · Simulation · NL
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 10 in 11 chartsiOSTop Paid · All Apps · AR · Top Paid · Games · AR · Top Paid · All Apps · CO · Top Paid · Games · CO · +7 more
- 📈Plague Inc. charting in a new country in 6 chartsAndroidSpain · Mexico · Netherlands · Sweden · +2 more
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Free · Simulation · SE · Top Free · Simulation · TW · Top Grossing · Simulation · TW
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Free · Simulation · DE · Top Grossing · Simulation · ID · Top Free · Simulation · IT
- 📈Plague Inc. charting in a new countryAndroidIndonesia
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Simulation · CA
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1iOSTop Paid · Strategy · ID
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Simulation · IN
- 📈Plague Inc. charting in a new countryAndroidIndia
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1 in 3 chartsiOSTop Paid · Strategy · AU · Top Paid · Games · RU · Top Paid · Strategy · RU
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1iOSTop Paid · Simulation · RU
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Simulation · GB · Top Free · Simulation · JP
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1iOSTop Paid · Strategy · CA
- 📈Plague Inc. entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Free · Simulation · CA · Top Free · Simulation · RU · Top Free · Simulation · US
- 🎉Plague Inc. in-app event: Anti-Vax ScenarioiOSMAJOR UPDATE · until 1 Nov
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1iOSTop Paid · Strategy · US
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · BR, DE, ES, FR, IT, MX, NL, RU, SE, TW
- 🌟Plague Inc.: featuring lifted it to #11 (from #27)iOSTop betaalde games · NL
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · BR, DE, ES, FR, IT, MX, NL, RU, SE, TW
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · Strategy · FR · Top Paid · Strategy · GB
- 📦Plague Inc. updated to version 1.26.0iOSNew Scenario: Anti-Vax
Faith in vaccines is collapsing. Global vaccination campaigns fight to hold the line, but weaponised conspiracies and viral misinformation are infecting the truth! What's the worst that could happen?
New Population Type: Vaccinated; they are already immune to your disease! How will you make them vulnerable?… more - 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · BR, DE, ES, FR, IT, KR, MX, NL, RU, SE, TW
- 📈Plague Inc. hit #1 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · Strategy · AE · Top Paid · Strategy · DE
- 📦Plague Inc. updated to version 1.26.1AndroidNew Scenario: Anti-Vax
Faith in vaccines is collapsing. Global vaccination campaigns fight to hold the line, but weaponised conspiracies and viral misinformation are infecting the truth! What's the worst that could happen?
New Population Type: Vaccinated; they are already immune to your disease! How will you make them vulnerable?… more - 🌟Plague Inc. featured by Apple: “CATCH UP WITH A CLASSIC”iOStoday · BR, DE, ES, FR, IN, IT, KR, MX, RU, SE, TW
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · BR, DE, ES, FR, IT, KR, MX, NL, RU, SE, TW
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · BR, DE, ES, FR, IT, KR, MX, RU, SE, TW
- 🆕Plague Inc. first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidCanada
- 🆕Plague Inc. first spotted by AppInsideriOS#2 in Top Paid · Strategy · Russia
- 🌟Plague Inc. featured by AppleiOSgames · BR, DE, IT, KR, RU
- 📦Plague Inc. version 1.25.3iOSNo release notes
- 🆕Plague Inc.: its developer released another app: After Inc. Scenario CreatoriOS
- 📦Plague Inc. version 1.25.2AndroidThe world keeps changing! And Plague Inc. evolves with it!
Last year we brought a billion new people into the world of Plague Inc., now we're bringing in even more for you to infect.
The 2026 World Update uses the latest global datasets from the World Bank to upgrade the core Plague Inc. simulation model.… more - 🆕Plague Inc. released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Plague Inc. released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Games › Strategy PaidPlague Inc. at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Plague Inc. is a strategy simulation game where players evolve a pathogen to infect the world, targeting mobile gamers interested in complex management and realistic disease modeling. The app holds the #1 position in Strategy Paid charts across ten major markets including the US, UK, and Japan, while also ranking #2 in Simulation Paid in Australia and Canada.
Similar apps: Reigns, Fallout Shelter, SimCity BuildIt
Simulation Strategy Minimalist Modern medium sessions Premium
#strategy #simulation #pandemic #single-player #realistic #indie
App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Plague Inc.’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 2 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Plague Inc. downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 5k+ | 10M+ |
| Google Play | 10k+ | 100M+ Measured |
| Total | 10k+ Confidence | 100M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Plague Inc.'s downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Ad-led
How Plague Inc. makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Necroa Virus Expansion Pack | |
| 2 | Unlock 7 Standard Plagues | |
| 3 | Neurax Worm Expansion Pack | |
| 4 | Unlock All Genes | |
| 5 | Unlock Cheats | |
| 6 | Plague Pack | |
| 7 | Scenario Pack | |
| 8 | Simian Flu Expansion Pack | |
| 9 | Shadow Plague Expansion Pack | |
| 10 | Unlock Virus |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #1 Games › Strategy Paid | 29 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | #21 Games › Simulation Free | 20 of 23 countries | #46 | #142 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in Japan ▲ +144% · 
Germany ▲ +44% · 
Italy ▲ +33%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 137 | 50% | ▼ -6% |
| Japan | 33 | 12% | ▲ +144% |
| Germany | 19 | 7% | ▲ +44% |
 Mexico | 18 | 6% | ▼ -18% |
 United Kingdom | 18 | 6% | ▲ +12% |
 Brazil | 11 | 4% | ▼ -27% |
 Canada | 9.2 | 3% | ▼ -14% |
 France | 8 | 3% | ▼ -21% |
 Australia | 6.5 | 2% | ▼ -13% |
| Italy | 6.5 | 2% | ▲ +33% |
 Poland | 5.7 | 2% | – |
 Turkey | 5.2 | 2% | ▼ -23% |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 168k |
| Google Play | 4.7 ★ | 4.1M 210k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.7 ★ weighted by ratings | 4.2M |
What users say about Plague Inc.
From the 89 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users criticize the game's difficulty balance and aggressive monetization model, noting that paid content is often locked behind additional paywalls or broken by updates. Complaints also focus on technical issues with cloud saves and login failures that result in lost progress.
Mixed but leaning positive (72% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and being useful. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and not being fun.
What people like
- Fun: “This game is really really fun”
- Useful: “Such a great time killer and I totally recommend playing it!”
- Updates: “hi, can you update vietnamese language”
- Price & subscription: “It’s so fun, but why you have to pay”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Spent money on all the packs”
- Fun: “Fun but Full of Blatant Propaganda”
- Login & account: “Cant log in with google for data restore”
- Updates: “The latest update doesn’t allow cheats for casual play to work”
About Plague Inc.
Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for iPhone & iPad, Plague Inc. evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world - only the strongest can survive!
◈◈◈ #1 top game globally with well over a billion games played ◈◈◈
Plague Inc. is a global hit with over a million 5 star ratings and features in newspapers such as The Economist, New York Post, Boston Herald, The Guardian and London Metro!
The developer of Plague Inc. was invited to speak at the CDC in Atlanta about the disease models inside the game!
▶ “The game creates a compelling world that engages the public on serious public health topics” – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
▶ "Plague Inc: The Cure encapsulates the complexities of a global pandemic response and highlights how crucial international collaboration is needed to address such a threat.” – Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
▶ “Best Tablet Game” - New York Daily News
▶ “Plague Inc. will snag your attention in all the right ways and keep it there” - Touch Arcade
▶ “No denying Plague Inc.'s high-level of quality” - Modojo
▶ “Plague Inc. should not be as much fun as it is” – London Metro
▶ “Will leave you hoping to destroy the world, all in the name of a bit of fun” – Pocket Lint
▶ “Plague Inc.'s gameplay is infectious” - Slide to Play
▶ Winner – “Overall Game of the Year” – Pocket Gamer
▶ “Killing billions has never been so fun” – IGN
◈◈◈
Features:
● Stunning retina graphics with a highly polished interface (Contagion guaranteed)
● Highly detailed, hyper-realistic world with advanced AI (Outbreak management)
● Comprehensive in-game help and tutorial system (I am Legendarily helpful)
● 12 different disease types with radically different strategies to master (12 Monkeys?)
● Full Save/Load functionality (28 Saves Later!)
● 50+ countries to infect, hundreds of traits to evolve and thousands of world events to adapt to (Pandemic evolved)
● Full game support for scoreboards and achievements
● Expansion updates add the mind controlling Neurax Worm, the zombie producing Necroa Virus, Speed Runs and real life Scenarios!
● Can you save the world? Take control and stop a deadly global plague in our biggest expansion yet!
● Take on Daily Diseases, earn powerful upgrades and compete against the world in Outbreak Mode!
Localised in English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Russian. (more coming soon)
P.S. Give yourself a pat on the back if you got all the themed literature references!
Special sale price to celebrate being o
Plague Inc. App Store
Plague Inc. gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plague Inc. is #1 in Games › Strategy Paid in United States and charting in 29 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 Games › Strategy PaidPlague Inc. at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Plague Inc. is a strategy simulation game where players evolve a pathogen to infect the world, targeting mobile gamers interested in complex management and realistic disease modeling. The app holds the #1 position in Strategy Paid charts across ten major markets including the US, UK, and Japan, while also ranking #2 in Simulation Paid in Australia and Canada.
Similar apps: Reigns, Fallout Shelter, SimCity BuildIt
Simulation Strategy Minimalist Modern medium sessions Premium
#strategy #simulation #pandemic #single-player #realistic #indie
Plague Inc. on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Plague Inc.’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 2 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Plague Inc. downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Plague Inc.'s downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Plague Inc. before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Plague Inc. makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Necroa Virus Expansion Pack | |
| 2 | Unlock 7 Standard Plagues | |
| 3 | Neurax Worm Expansion Pack | |
| 4 | Unlock All Genes | |
| 5 | Unlock Cheats | |
| 6 | Plague Pack | |
| 7 | Scenario Pack | |
| 8 | Simian Flu Expansion Pack | |
| 9 | Shadow Plague Expansion Pack | |
| 10 | Unlock Virus |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
Spain
South Korea
United Arab Emirates
Taiwan
Netherlands
Sweden
India
Argentina
Indonesia
South Africa
Saudi Arabia
Colombia
Malaysia
Philippines
Vietnam
ThailandApps near Plague Inc. on the chart
Games › Strategy Paid, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in Japan ▲ +144% · Germany ▲ +44% · Italy ▲ +33%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 137 | 50% | ▼ -6% |
| Japan | 33 | 12% | ▲ +144% |
| Germany | 19 | 7% | ▲ +44% |
| Mexico | 18 | 6% | ▼ -18% |
| United Kingdom | 18 | 6% | ▲ +12% |
| Brazil | 11 | 4% | ▼ -27% |
| Canada | 9.2 | 3% | ▼ -14% |
| France | 8 | 3% | ▼ -21% |
| Australia | 6.5 | 2% | ▼ -13% |
| Italy | 6.5 | 2% | ▲ +33% |
| Poland | 5.7 | 2% | – |
| Turkey | 5.2 | 2% | ▼ -23% |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Plague Inc.
From the 89 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users criticize the game's difficulty balance and aggressive monetization model, noting that paid content is often locked behind additional paywalls or broken by updates. Complaints also focus on technical issues with cloud saves and login failures that result in lost progress.
Mixed but leaning positive (72% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and being useful. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and not being fun.
What people like
- Fun: “This game is really really fun”
- Useful: “Such a great time killer and I totally recommend playing it!”
- Updates: “hi, can you update vietnamese language”
- Price & subscription: “It’s so fun, but why you have to pay”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Spent money on all the packs”
- Fun: “Fun but Full of Blatant Propaganda”
- Login & account: “Cant log in with google for data restore”
- Updates: “The latest update doesn’t allow cheats for casual play to work”
About Plague Inc.
Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for iPhone & iPad, Plague Inc. evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world - only the strongest can survive!
◈◈◈ #1 top game globally with well over a billion games played ◈◈◈
Plague Inc. is a global hit with over a million 5 star ratings and features in newspapers such as The Economist, New York Post, Boston Herald, The Guardian and London Metro!
The developer of Plague Inc. was invited to speak at the CDC in Atlanta about the disease models inside the game!
▶ “The game creates a compelling world that engages the public on serious public health topics” – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
▶ "Plague Inc: The Cure encapsulates the complexities of a global pandemic response and highlights how crucial international collaboration is needed to address such a threat.” – Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
▶ “Best Tablet Game” - New York Daily News
▶ “Plague Inc. will snag your attention in all the right ways and keep it there” - Touch Arcade
▶ “No denying Plague Inc.'s high-level of quality” - Modojo
▶ “Plague Inc. should not be as much fun as it is” – London Metro
▶ “Will leave you hoping to destroy the world, all in the name of a bit of fun” – Pocket Lint
▶ “Plague Inc.'s gameplay is infectious” - Slide to Play
▶ Winner – “Overall Game of the Year” – Pocket Gamer
▶ “Killing billions has never been so fun” – IGN
◈◈◈
Features:
● Stunning retina graphics with a highly polished interface (Contagion guaranteed)
● Highly detailed, hyper-realistic world with advanced AI (Outbreak management)
● Comprehensive in-game help and tutorial system (I am Legendarily helpful)
● 12 different disease types with radically different strategies to master (12 Monkeys?)
● Full Save/Load functionality (28 Saves Later!)
● 50+ countries to infect, hundreds of traits to evolve and thousands of world events to adapt to (Pandemic evolved)
● Full game support for scoreboards and achievements
● Expansion updates add the mind controlling Neurax Worm, the zombie producing Necroa Virus, Speed Runs and real life Scenarios!
● Can you save the world? Take control and stop a deadly global plague in our biggest expansion yet!
● Take on Daily Diseases, earn powerful upgrades and compete against the world in Outbreak Mode!
Localised in English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Russian. (more coming soon)
P.S. Give yourself a pat on the back if you got all the themed literature references!
Special sale price to celebrate being o
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Plague Inc. Android
Plague Inc. gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plague Inc. is #21 in Games › Simulation Free on Google Play in Japan and charting in 20 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Games › Simulation FreePlague Inc. at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Strategy Simulation Realistic Modern medium sessions IAP
#strategy #simulation #pandemic #evolution #single-player #realism
Plague Inc. on Google Play
App details
Plague Inc. downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Plague Inc.'s downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Plague Inc. before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Plague Inc. makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Necroa Virus Expansion Pack | |
| 2 | Unlock 7 Standard Plagues | |
| 3 | Neurax Worm Expansion Pack | |
| 4 | Unlock All Genes | |
| 5 | Unlock Cheats | |
| 6 | Plague Pack | |
| 7 | Scenario Pack | |
| 8 | Simian Flu Expansion Pack | |
| 9 | Shadow Plague Expansion Pack | |
| 10 | Unlock Virus |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
Apps near Plague Inc. on the chart
Games › Simulation Free, around #21.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Plague Inc.
From the 200 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (82% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and good value. The main complaints are about ads, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Fun: “It's fun in a morbid way 😅”
- Price & subscription: “barely any ads and you don't have to pay for a thing!”
- Ease of use: “yea great game won on 1st round pretty easy”
- Useful: “it's very good highly recommend I give it 4-stars”
Common complaints
- Ads: “So why am I getting banner ads?”
- Price & subscription: “it doesn't go away it just sits there begging for your money”
- Speed & performance
- Updates: “Update added a big advertisement at the bottom”
About Plague Inc.
Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for touchscreen, Plague Inc. from developer Ndemic Creations evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world - only the strongest can survive!
Plague Inc. is a global hit with features in newspapers such as The Economist, New York Post, Boston Herald, The Guardian and London Metro!
The developer of Plague Inc. was invited to speak at the CDC in Atlanta about the disease models inside the game and partnered with the World Health Organisation during the covid pandemic to produce an expansion for the game: Plague Inc: The Cure.
◈◈◈
Features:
● Highly detailed, hyper-realistic world with advanced AI (Outbreak management)
● Comprehensive in-game help and tutorial system (I am Legendarily helpful)
● 12 different disease types with radically different strategies to master (12 Monkeys?)
● Full Save/Load functionality (28 Saves Later!)
● 50+ countries to infect, hundreds of traits to evolve and thousands of world events to adapt to (Pandemic evolved)
● Full game support for scoreboards and achievements
● Expansion updates add the mind controlling Neurax Worm, the zombie producing Necroa Virus, Speed Runs and real life Scenarios!
● Can you save the world? Take control and stop a deadly global plague in our biggest expansion yet!
● Take on Daily Diseases, earn powerful upgrades and compete against the world in Outbreak Mode!
Localised in English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean and Russian.
P.S. Give yourself a pat on the back if you got all the themed literature references!
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Can you save humanity's oldest disease from long-term decline?
- Struggle: How can Leprosy survive in a world full of treatments?
- Social Stigma: Leper Colonies don't work! Use myths about Leprosy to your advantage
- Overcome: Bring this almost forgotten disease back into the headlines
- Free Scenario for all players!
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