A strange little side quest
In the time of Pandemia has plenty of company in a long tradition of players chasing timing, patterns and better decisions. The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. And the history keeps stacking up: In 1958, Tennis for Two used an analog computer and an oscilloscope to turn simple physics into a playable tennis-like demonstration. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at In the time of Pandemia feel a bit more connected to the history of play.