Yo It's Spicy: Plague Inc. Shadow Plague Casual Guide

This guide has been written and submitted by Patty. Submit your own guide to us now via our submit section or by sending them directly to yoitsspicy@yahoo.com.ph. Please rate and comment on the guide for its improvement!

Plague Inc. Shadow Plague Casual Gene Unlock

In this mode, your goal is to infect the world with the Shadow Plague emitted from your vampire while also battling Templar Industries, who hunt your vampires, and the WHO, who try to find a cure for the Shadow Plague. This mode can be easily done without any of the Shadow Plague genes

This method involves infecting countries with the vampire and constructing 4 strategically placed lairs around the world. Lairs double up as DNA generators as well as transporters when you evolve Shadow Portal as this lets you instantly teleport to a lair.

One thing to note is during flight, the destination you select is exactly where your vampire ends up. This means that for large countries such as China or Brazil, you may end up needing to fly 2 times in order to get across if you picked a poor initial landing area.

This method is not for setting a high-score, but for rushing a completion to unlock genes. My score ranges from 2000-10000 and is always 2-3 biohazards, but it does finish in less than 600 days each time

Take Teracyte and Extremophile for genes

We are mainly using the vampire to infect, so Teracyte helps in spreading between closely packed countries
Extremophile is just a good gene overall

Start in China

Pick somewhere close to India, due to the flight rule above

Evolve Shadow Blessing, Blood Gift, Dark Cloud, Shadow Trail, Corrupted Air
Evolve Therianthropy ASAP
Wait for the message “Vampire feeding attracts attention in China”, then fly to India
Evolve Night Wraith then evolve Lair when you have enough points
Construct the first lair in India
Fly to Saudi Arabia, and wait for a lot of red bubbles to pop up around, then fly to Central Africa
Construct the second lair in Central Africa
Evolve Travel Speed 1, then fly to Morocco
Evolve Travel Speed 2, then fly to Brazil

Depending on where you positioned yourself in Morocco, you could make this flight on Travel Speed 1 only

Construct the third lair in Brazil
Fly to USA, then wait for Canada and Mexico to be infected
Fly to these countries in the following order:

Greenland
Iceland
Sweden
UK
Spain
Germany
Ukraine
Turkey

While on this journey, evolve Shadow Portal, then Nocturnal, Anaemia, Pallor, Weeping Sores, Hyperdontia, Jugular Bite and Shadow Slaves
Fly to Australia and construct the fourth lair there
Now fly to the surrounding Oceanic countries (New Zealand, New Guinea, Indonesia etc.) and keep collecting DNA

When you have enough, evolve Blood Rage

By now, you should see Cure Labs pop up around the world, shown in blue borders with a blue flask, or potential Labs with a grey border/flask. We’ll ignore them for now.
When the message “Templar Industries deem *disease name* a threat”, evolve Vampiric Awakening ASAP
Keep collecting DNA, and evolve Lair Healing 1 then Adrenal Surge
When you see the message “Templar Industries activate military protocols”, you’ll see countries with a little castle icon in them.
Our top priority is to destroy these countries, by flying to them and then using the Blood Rage active ability in that country
Your vampire will go into combat with Templar, shown by a depletion of the colour (HP) of both icons
As you get more DNA, evolve Lair Healing 2, Dark Infiltration, Shadow Blades and Demonic Fury
Around this time, you’ll also get a second vampire indicated by the message “New vampire created in *random country*”. Fly this vampire to any of the lairs and let it heal up.
When your vampire(s) are fully healed, fly them to each of the Templar countries and start destroying them with Blood Rage
Remember to fly them back to a lair after destroying a Templar country to let them heal up

In the rare case that your vampire is losing a fight (a message will pop up saying the vampire is close to dying), fly back to a lair, heal up and then go back into the fight. You’ll heal much faster than Templar will.

During this fighting period, drones will also start targeting lairs. To stop this, send one vampire back to the lair the drone is targeting (it will start circling a country) and then use Blood Rage to destroy it
When the last Templar country is destroyed, the message “Templar forces eradicated” will pop up
Now all that remains is to target the countries with Cure Labs and destroy them using Blood Rage. This is much easier as there will be nothing to fight your vampire
When the last lab is destroyed, the message “WHO Lab initiative collapses” will show up
The last thing to do is to infect the world population with the Shadow Plague

Fly your vampires to any uninfected countries and then use Blood Rage to quickly infect everyone. This can also be done on countries with minimal infected population to speed up the process

Congratulations!