StrategyFit check
Is The Great Plague Exodus worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players interested in historical family-survival simulations with ethical choices
- Strategy fans who want to manage health, morale, work, and money rather than armies
- Players who prefer event-driven journeys with changing situations between playthroughs
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking direct combat, military command, or empire-building instead of family and travel management
- Players who prefer a fixed story and predictable progression over randomly generated events
- Players looking for a broad historical strategy game spanning multiple generations or large territories
Our take on The Great Plague Exodus
The store copy gives prominent space to the plague setting, custom artwork, and hundreds of events, but offers less detail about how the family-management decisions connect into a longer journey. Its strongest point of definition is the event-driven premise rather than a clearly outlined day-to-day structure.
What is The Great Plague Exodus?
Set in England in 1665, this simulation follows a family leaving London during the Great Plague and traveling north from city to city.
Players assign work and leisure activities to family members, choose medicines, manage health and morale, and decide where the family lives. Money affects life on the road, with employment ranging from grave-digging to parish clerking and the option to sell family valuables. The journey includes hundreds of randomly generated events that present survival and ethical decisions, including choices made while children are starving. Custom artwork accompanies these events, with each playthrough forming a different account of a London refugee family's attempt to escape the outbreak.
How The Great Plague Exodus plays
- 01Family Management
- Work, hobbies, medicines, health, morale, and housing can be managed for individual family members.
- 02Countrywide Journey
- The family moves between cities while heading north through plague-affected England.
- 03Variable Events
- Hundreds of randomly generated situations create different story paths across playthroughs.
- 04Roadside Employment
- Available jobs include grave-digging and parish clerking, with income affecting the family's circumstances.
- 05Ethical Decisions
- Events put survival needs and moral choices into tension, including situations involving hungry children.
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The Great Plague Exodus: platforms & release
Is The Great Plague Exodus worth it?
It is worth it if: players interested in historical family-survival simulations with ethical choices. Skip it if: players seeking direct combat, military command, or empire-building instead of family and travel management.
Where can I download The Great Plague Exodus?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Great Plague Exodus's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Great Plague Exodus on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
