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Is Infestation: Origins worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Horror fans who want cooperative extermination missions
- Small groups who prefer investigating locations and coordinating over voice chat
- Players who enjoy changing objectives and randomized layouts across sessions
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a continuous, non-episodic horror campaign
- Players who prefer fixed encounters rather than variable contracts, item layouts, and enemy behavior
- Players looking for a horror game without extermination gear, nests, or combat encounters
Our take on Infestation: Origins
Rather than placing players in the usual role of investigators or survivors, the game casts them as exterminators. Its horror structure combines location exploration and outbreak treatment with episodic threats drawn from classic characters and urban legends.
What is Infestation: Origins?
Play alone or in a team of up to four exterminators across episodic 1980s locations.
Investigate each site, access additional sections, track infestation signs, restore power to systems, and trace the outbreak’s origin. Extermination tools let the team clear nests and face dangerous creatures. Groups can divide tasks to work faster or remain together for protection. Positional and worldwide voice channels support coordination. Every episode centers on a different distorted figure from folklore or a familiar tale linked to the infestation. Changing object placements, contracts, and enemy behavior create different conditions from one session to another. Earn experience and money to obtain character skins, perks, weapons, and traps.
How Infestation: Origins plays
- 01Solo and Co-op Play
- Sessions support solo play, private groups, and public lobbies, with up to four players.
- 02Voice Communication
- Players can coordinate through positional voice chat or a global channel.
- 03Investigation Objectives
- Missions involve exploring locations, opening restricted areas, powering systems, monitoring activity, and locating the infestation source.
- 04Extermination Equipment
- A range of gear is used to subdue outbreaks, destroy nests, and fight creatures.
- 05Variable Encounters
- Item placement, contracts, and enemy behavior can change across playthroughs.
- 06Unlockable Progression
- Experience and cash provide access to skins, perks, weapons, and traps.
- 07Episode-Based Horror
- Each episode centers on a separate classic character or urban legend linked to the infestation.
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Infestation: Origins: platforms & release
Is Infestation: Origins worth it?
It is worth it if: horror fans who want cooperative extermination missions. Skip it if: players seeking a continuous, non-episodic horror campaign.
Where can I download Infestation: Origins?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Infestation: Origins's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Infestation: Origins on?
Windows only.
