Genre: Strategy / Simulation

Idea:

Infect and eliminate as many people as possible with the Black Death, before prevention and care measures are developed.

Mechanics:

• The player controls groups of infected rats that move around a medieval map.
• Each group of rats has a life bar and an infection bar. The life bar decreases over time and with attacks by humans or other animals. The infection bar increases when the mouse comes into contact with humans, animals or other rats(non-player).
• Can select one or more groups of rats and give them commands to move, attack, hide or reproduce. Can also use special skills such as exploiting a group (only when the infection bar reaches its maximum, then the group dies and releases a cloud of fleas that can infect other nearby living beings), heal the group or increasing rat resistance.
• Human plague doctors can make the infection bar decrease with their attacks.

References:

Gameplay like Age of Empires or Civilitzation(?)