Bio inc. Redemption vs Patient Zero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bio inc. Redemption
Engage in a complex biomedical simulation where you can either create deadly illnesses to infect victims or lead a medical team to find cures. Explore two distinct campaigns, develop strategies, and compete in world tournaments. The game offers realistic medical scenarios with a focus on strategic decision-making.
- Biomedical simulation
- Create illnesses or find cures
- Realistic diseases and conditions
- Two distinct campaigns
- Skills system for upgrades
- Side quests and rewards
- World tournaments
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Bio Inc.: Redemption is a complex biomedical simulator in which you make life or death decisions. Create the ultimate illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity? Including over 600 actual diseases, virus, symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments and other medical conditions, Bio Inc.: Redemption is frighteningly realistic. It will captivate you for hours, bringing you into a microscopic world of epic plague proportions! As the sequel to the worldwide mobile hit Bio Inc. (enjoyed by over 15 million players), Bio Inc.: Redemption was rebuilt from the ground up to make it the most realistic and visually stunning medical condition simulator available. CHOOSE YOUR SIDE Bio Inc.: Redemption includes two all-new campaigns! Choose Death and explore your dark side by wrathfully terminating victims using an agonizing combination of diseases and medical conditions. Be the Plague! Choose Life and you heroically play as a medical diagnostician to identify and cure diseases before it is too late for your patient. Save the human race one human at a time! Each campaign consists of nine cases with four different difficulty levels and the new adaptive AI system provides hours of gameplay with great replay value. NEW SKILLS SYSTEM The all new skills system enables players to earn skills point and spend those towards upgrading skills that best fits their gameplay. Upgraded skills are persistent through all game modes. SIDE QUESTS While playing the campaign mode, players can decide to alter their strategy to complete one or many of the 41 included side quests. Completing side quest entitle players to hefty rewards! WORLD TOURNAMENTS Each week, the game will unveil a new world map to conquer with cases for Death and Life to be completed. Accumulate a winning streak, use your skills carefully and contest the title of best Doctor of Medicine. In exchange for you hard work, you will be compensated with rewards and pride. BUILDING DEEP STRATEGIES The mechanics of Bio Inc.: Redemption are simple to grasp yet extremely deep. Casual players will appreciate a quick and exciting challenge. Advanced players will have to elaborate complex strategies to solve high difficulty cases. It's all about combos and timing! 18 DIVERSIFIED CHALLENGING CASES Each unique scenarios comes with its unique twists and specific objectives, gradually building your skills and expanding your toolset to evermore demanding intricate cases. UNFORGIVING, WICKED AND STRANGELY COMPELLING Whether you wish to cure an innocent patient's sickness or torment a poor soul through an unlikely disease and infection combination, the Bio Inc. universe will not leave you cold. Deviously realistic, even educational, balanced with a good amount of humor, the Bio Inc.: Redemption experience will take you on one heck of a thrill ride.
Patient Zero
Simulate the creation and spread of a deadly plague in this realistic apocalypse simulator. Adapt your pathogen against global efforts to stop it and decide the fate of humanity. It's a strategic test of biology and survival.
- Hyper-realistic virus simulation
- Develop and adapt unique diseases
- Global infection across all countries
- Hundreds of evolving traits
- Respond to thousands of world events
- Built-in tutorials
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"Patient Zero" is a terrifyingly realistic virus simulator that combines strategic gameplay with a true-to-life global crisis. This is not just another virus game—it's a fully immersive pathogen game where every decision can alter the fate of humanity. Your virus infection has just begun with "Patient Zero." Now it's your mission to develop a deadly plague and adapt against everything humanity throws at you. This is the ultimate test of survival, cunning, and biology in one of the most intense pandemic games ever made. Features: ● Hyper-realistic, highly detailed world—experience the depth of a true virus simulation ● Flash controls and intuitive interface to guide you through global domination ● Unique types of diseases—each one mutates differently in this complex disease game ● Every country on Earth is available for infection—from major cities to remote islands ● Hundreds of traits to evolve, thousands of world events to respond to ● Built-in tutorials and help system for new players of biology games or infecting games Will you save the world or watch it fall? Become the ultimate bio-strategist in this pandemic plague game. Whether you’re stopping the outbreak or accelerating the virus infection, the fate of the planet is in your hands. If you love virus infection games, pandemic simulations, or strategic infecting games, this is the virus game you’ve been waiting for. Adapt. Survive. Infect. Download "Patient Zero" now – the most addictive and realistic pandemic and disease game experience on mobile!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bio inc. Redemption at every 5 days against Patient Zero's every 4 months. Bio inc. Redemption also leads on review sentiment (55% vs 27%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Bio inc. Redemption sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Patient Zero sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Bio inc. Redemption against 4.6 for Patient Zero. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.2K and 5.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Bio inc. Redemption's written reviews are positive against 27% of Patient Zero's.
Bio inc. Redemption ships an update every 5 days, Patient Zero every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bio inc. Redemption | Patient Zero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.2K ratings) — better | 4.6 (5.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.4% of reviews — better | 26.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.2K | 5.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 447 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DryGin Studios | Brightika, Inc. |
Customer experience
Bio inc. Redemption
Patient Zero
User reviews
Bio inc. Redemption
From 2.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and interesting gameplay
- 🚀 Realistic and challenging
- 💡 Ability to choose between saving or killing the patient
- 👍 Teaches about diseases and medicine
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Issues with energy/coin system and power-ups
- 🐛 Bugs with completing levels and earning rewards
- 🐛 Loading problems and unresponsive app
Patient Zero
From 5.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great gameplay
- 🚀 Smooth graphics
Room to improve
- 💸 Too many ads
- 🔍 Lack of content
Bugs and requests
Bio inc. Redemption
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezing mid-game
- Coins/energy not being properly restored
- Rewards not registering for completed levels
- Mandatory tutorial not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Add sandbox mode
- Implement multiplayer functionality
- Improve tutorial and onboarding
- Optimize for mobile devices
Patient Zero
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game progress deleted due to phone dying
- Forced ads without user permission
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to restart from the beginning
- More pathogens to unlock
In-app purchases
Bio inc. Redemption
- Gems Pack$1.99
- Offer Bundle$2.99
- Offer Bundle$4.99
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- Gems Pack$4.99
- Gems Pack$9.99
- Offer Bundle$9.99
- Offer Bundle$17.99
- Gems Pack$18.99
- Offer Bundle$19.99
- Gems Pack$94.99
Patient Zero
- Light Pack$0.99
- Medium Pack$3.99
- No Ads2 variants$4.99
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- Starter Pack2 variants$4.99
- Heavy Pack$9.99
- No Ads VIP2 variants$14.99
- Massive Pack$14.99
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