Playing History - The Plague sets its story in fourteenth-century Florence, where a mysterious disease has struck the city. The protagonist’s mother has fallen ill, and the fate of the family rests in the player’s hands. Rather than treating the past as a backdrop for a changeable alternate history, the series frames historical events as forces players witness and explore.
The game’s distinctive design joins a personal predicament to historical learning. Its series presents engaging stories in a living world, conveying learning as the story progresses through players’ decisions and actions. Those choices shape the player’s interaction with the world, while the wider historical events remain things to witness rather than alter. The Florence setting, its characters, events and locations give that approach a specific human focus.
Listed as a single-player adventure, The Plague is built around an individual journey rather than a shared multiplayer session.
