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Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Chromosome Evil is a war, atmospheric and singleplayer game developed and published by S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L..
Released on March 24th 2022 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Russian.

It has received 321 reviews of which 273 were positive and 48 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Chromosome Evil into these genres:

War Atmospheric Singleplayer Strategy Simulation Choices Matter Resource Management RTS Post-apocalyptic Zombies Survival Psychological Pixel Graphics Real Time Tactics Survival Horror Perma Death Replay Value Top-Down Tactical Dark

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP or higher
  • Processor: Pentium 4
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Any
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Any

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
Very fun little squad-based real time tactics game. Very hard. Multiple endings and routes. Make sure you play with the extra weapons or whatever it is called enabled on launch.
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March 2025
good game from amazing developers. works well on steam deck. score 8,5/10
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Dec. 2024
Graphics are 16 bit, as you can see -- but don't let that fool you, this game has more personality than games with a lot more shine in the graphics department. Atmosphere is very gritty and you really get the sense of fighting against hopeless odds. character and equipment development is both simple and worthwhile, provoking meaningful choices. Fun achievement system that effects future playthroughs. Constantly tests your wits with staying for more loot or pulling out before it's too late, and the game has a lot of depth for being so simple (but elegant!) I just played through to the end of my first playthrough which took 17 hours more or less and got a horrifying ending. I'm looking forward to eventually getting the best ending! Highly recommended.
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July 2024
This is one of those games where you actually have to make sensible choices to win, which is why Im giving this a thumbs up. I don't mean its particulartly hard, but if you just make random choices then you'll probably lose. Unless you got a solider with the katana, which makes the game very easy. So I'd say avoid using the katana if you want an interesting experience. The UI on the other hand is pretty bad. For instance, there are shortcut-keys for switching to melee, but not to switching back to ranged. This is extra annoying in one part of the game where you lose your GUI for some strange story-reason and if you switch to melee then you're stuck with melee. And the mouse click doesn't register if you move the mouse before you release the button. So for me this is a weak thumbs-up.
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June 2024
I played both This and the second game. Not gonna lie both have a lot of problems. This is not a bad game by any means but they left in easily fixable stuff in for some reason. There are a lot of translation errors but it doesn't effect the game that much. Way better than the second game at least. Both games has problems in their basic mechanics like you cannot select weapons for your soldiers. Some engineers come with a turret some with a pistol. Turrets shooting dead stuff and wasting bullets. There are more but at least it's not very bad. They should have fixed this game completely instead of moving onto the second one.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Chromosome Evil is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

Chromosome Evil is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.

Chromosome Evil received 273 positive votes out of a total of 321 achieving a rating of 7.89.
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Chromosome Evil was developed and published by S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L..

Chromosome Evil is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Chromosome Evil is not playable on MacOS.

Chromosome Evil is not playable on Linux.

Chromosome Evil is a single-player game.

There are 4 DLCs available for Chromosome Evil. Explore additional content available for Chromosome Evil on Steam.

Chromosome Evil does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Chromosome Evil does not support Steam Remote Play.

Chromosome Evil is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Chromosome Evil
12.49€
7.9
273
48
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S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
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S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Release 24 Mar 2022
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