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Big Pharma

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good? Being totally altruistic may not be the best business plan. The uncomfortable truth (is there an ointment for that?) is that some remedies are more profitable than others and illness is good for business. Welcome to the world of Big Pharma! With a few rusty reconditioned machines, you can progress from knocking out cheap

Release date
August 27, 2015
Platforms
Windows, Linux
Developer
Twice Circled
Publisher
Positech Games
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What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good? Being totally altruistic may not be the best business plan. The uncomfortable truth (is there an ointment for that?) is that some remedies are more profitable than others and illness is good for business.

Welcome to the world of Big Pharma! With a few rusty reconditioned machines, you can progress from knocking out cheap generic treatments for minor ailments, to discovering new active ingredients and hi-tech machines to help refine the next generation of world-changing drugs. But watch out, you’re not alone out there. Rival corporations that want to put you out of business have their own set of competing cures and treatments. Then there’s the dynamically shifting marketplace which means that your fancy cold and flu medicine from last winter might not sell so well now it’s the height of summer.

Where did I put my anti-wrinkle sun cream? Big Pharma is part business sim, part logistics puzzle. It’s one thing to work away in the lab perfecting new formulas, but converting the ‘sciency stuff’ into cold hard cash means bringing an engineering and business mind to the problem.…

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★ 7.0/10GOG · 103 ratings
GOGLast checked November 3, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 2 / 5
With a name like Big Pharma, I thought the game would be a funny take on the exploitation practiced by pharmaceutical companies. It also had…
★ 4 / 5
It's a good game, but it could be much better. It becomes a bit repetitive after a few hours and it is far too easy.…
★ 4 / 5
We don't get good managerial games everyday so if you are at all interested in this kind of stuff you should probably pick this one…
★ 3 / 5
I originally heard about the game on Hacker News in a comment thread about factorio. But when I played it myself I am slightly disappointed.…
★ 4 / 5
(Review based on the Steam Version) Very good tycoon game, haven't encountered any issues so far, although I'm "only" 13 hours or so in. If…
★ 5 / 5
This game is one of my favorites and I think it relates to my enjoyment of jigsaw puzzles and board games. One of the main…
★ 1 / 5
I never got to play it! It just wouldn't load up. It kept asaying 'offline' mode
★ 3 / 5
This game is just like or similar to Production Line, if you know how one game works then this is a walk in the hospital.

Most recent8

★ 1 / 5
I never got to play it! It just wouldn't load up. It kept asaying 'offline' mode
★ 1 / 5
I will go straight to the problem: you start with random resources to create a random medicine. There are random bad combinations which make your…
★ 5 / 5
This game is one of my favorites and I think it relates to my enjoyment of jigsaw puzzles and board games. One of the main…
★ 3 / 5
This game is just like or similar to Production Line, if you know how one game works then this is a walk in the hospital.
★ 1 / 5
linux version does not run on 16.10, beware to those that use anything other than 16.04
★ 1 / 5
This corporate propaganda title does not belong on GoG and should be removed out of respect for the values that GoG claims to represent.
★ 3 / 5
I originally heard about the game on Hacker News in a comment thread about factorio. But when I played it myself I am slightly disappointed.…
★ 2 / 5
With a name like Big Pharma, I thought the game would be a funny take on the exploitation practiced by pharmaceutical companies. It also had…

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