I quite dislike the game for a multitude of reasons, but the three most prominent ones are;

First, the gameplay has barely changed since the days of yesteryear where this was a flash game, in fact its basically the exact same except they slapped a pricetag on it and a bit fancier UI, apart from that almost everything is the exact same. Like absolutely no improvement on that side, its the exact same thing.

Secondly, the game is far too reliant on RNG for ''difficulty'', literally EVERY SINGLE TIME that I was screwed out of a victory was because I lost way too much dna points on removing symptoms forced upon me, which depending on the RNG can be so freaking frequent you effectively waste all the points just to keep the severity in check. I often had the EXACT same mutation happens multiple times in a row within the span of a week or two, which is incredibly infuriating due to how the AI in the game give absolutely no chance unless you go full passive until every country on earth is infected. Every other pathogen that do not force random mutations are so easy you can easily defeat the world without ever being detected until its too late.

Third and last, its incredibly annoying how despite the variety of pathogens present, there is literally only a single viable strategy NO MATTER WHAT; Remove every symptoms as they pop up, or just never invest into it, and simply let the infection spread slowly until it snowball. No other tactic is viable because the very instant that any symptoms appear, its basically game over because the entire world will suddenly band together in record time to defeat you, even if from their perspective you're an extremely benign pathogen. It would be like the entire world banding together in less than a week to find a cure for foot fungus because some new strain appeared in Africa. So utterly silly and immersion breaking.

The gameplay is fire. The concept is fire. Blink, and the world is on fire.

Corona virus simulator