English patch for the 2002 Technical Demo

The technical demo is a very early version of Pathologic 1, demonstrating basic capabilities of the in-house 3D engine (Plague City); an early version of some of the game's mechanics, such as the Actor system; and, presumably, a draft of the plot, the characters, and the dynamics between them.


Description 🔗︎

The English patch provides a human-made translation of the in-game dialogue, inventory descriptions, and the diary.

You can download the translated techdemo here (click on Download all).

Installing the font 🔗︎

Aryal Cyr font file is included with the download. This font is referenced by name in the .exe file, but was not actually included with the demo, probably implying it was already installed on all computers that the demo was supposed to run on...

Installing it will let you see the text how it was supposedly intended to be seen. Running the demo without it will have it use a default font of your system's, but it might make some text look less pretty.

Running on Linux 🔗︎

You must have Wine already installed, which you can usually get from your distro's repositories.

Instead of running directly the PlagueCity.exe file, make the file launch.sh executable, then run it:

chmod +x launch.sh
./launch.sh
    

If your desktop environment allows it, you can also double-click on the launch.sh file to start it, instead of having to type its name in terminal.


Notes about translating the Techdemo