Cheats

Cheats are one of the special features in Plague Inc. that allow the player to modify the game mechanics, such as having unlimited DNA Points or completely rearranging the order of traits in a random order, allowing for 127 different combinations, or 128 if no cheats being enabled counts as a combination. All cheats are usable by all Standard Plagues, Special Plagues and most Scenarios.

In Plague Inc., the first four can be unlocked either by beating all standard plague types on Brutal difficulty, the next three on Mega Brutal difficulty or by purchasing them for $13.99 (which effectively makes the last three exclusive to the premium version). In Plague Inc: Evolved, the first four cheats can be unlocked by beating all of the plague types in Normal difficulty, and the last three by completing all plague types in Mega Brutal.

Each cheat option has Biohazard markers indicating the highest difficulty in which it was beaten, just like the Scenarios and other Standard Plagues and Special Plagues.

Main Game

Immune Strain

"No Cure Cheat: Impossible to find a cure for the Plague" Although the cure is being developed, the game continually adds more cure requirement, effectively preventing its completion.

Hidden Strain

"No Government Cheat: Humans will never take action against you" Governments will never research cures or close borders or ports. Like the Immune strain, the only way to lose is by killing all victims without infecting everyone first. Doesn't work with Neurax Worm. Cure broadcast is unaffected for Nano-Virus.

Unlimited Strain

"Unlimited DNA Cheat: Evolve with the power of a god" Grants unlimited (∞) DNA at the start of the game. Can be used to determine how to unlock symptom combos. Used to be 999 in older versions on the mobile version. 9999 in Plague Inc: Evolved

Turbo Strain

"Headstart Cheat: Starting country is 100% infected" The starting country will immediately be completely infected. If coupled with Double Strain, both countries will be fully infected. Bugged in Scenarios with preselected starting countries, like Nipah / Frozen Virus and the Unknown Origin scenario. Its effects do not apply.

Shuffle Strain

"Evolutionary Shuffle Cheat: All evolutions are mixed up" All evolutions are randomly shuffled in all possible trait spots.

Lucky Dip Strain

"Surprise Evolutions Cheat: Start with 5 random evolutions" They can't be devolved, and act as if they were normally evolved, which lead to adjacent traits.

Double Strain

"Double Start Cheat: Choose two countries to start in" There are two Patient Zeroes this time! Allows the disease to start in two countries. Works with Turbo Strain, allowing both to be completely infected.

Cure Mode

Golden Handshake

"Unlimited Resources Cheat: Never run out of money"

Advance Planning

"Global Monitoring Cheat: Monitoring stations in every country"

Full Support

"Full Compliance Cheat: Non-compliance set to zero"

Maximum Power

"Maximum Power Cheat: Authority can’t fall"

Messy Desk

"Evolutionary Initiative Cheat: All initiatives are mixed up" All initiatives are randomly shuffled in all possible trait spots.

Lucky Dip

"Surprise Initiatives Cheat: Start with 5 random initiatives" They can't be removed, and act as if they were normally purchased, which lead to adjacent traits.

The Avengers

"Super Operative Cheat: Operatives are much more effective"

Gallery

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  Cheats Menu (Mobile Version)

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  Cheats Menu (Old Mobile Version)

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  Cheats Menu (Mobile Version)

Trivia

• The player can't get achievements or unlock new genes or disease types while using cheats, nor it will count toward scores.
  • Exceptions to this are the Normal Shuffle, Mega-Brutal Shuffle, Bingo! and Lottery Winner! achievements, which require Shuffle Strain and Lucky Dip Strain for the first and last two, respectively.
• Beating a game with only one cheat activated will earn the player a Biohazard symbol for that cheat, depending on the difficulty, with higher difficulty symbols automatically overriding ones of lower difficulty. The player cannot earn Biohazards at all if two or more cheats are activated at once.