Miasmata

Miasmata is a first-person survival adventure game in which the player attempts to navigate an ailing protagonist across treacherous terrain and past an enigmatic threat in pursuit of medicinal plants or fungi that may cure him. The disease causes rapid dehydration if water is not regularly consumed, and while he does carry a small canteen, this is not enough for long trips inland or when stuck in the wilderness at night. Other threats include falling down steep cliffs and being stalked by the island's territorial creature. A small fall or coming close to drowning cause significant disorientation.

He can ameliorate the disease's effects by creating medication at research stations. Simple anti-fever tablets lowers the fever, but more complex concoctions can be constructed which permanently enhance his strength and agility which are helpful while exploring the dangerous island. Medicines can be produced by finding plants, taking them back to a research camp, and processing them into tablets and tonics.

The indie game was developed over four years by two brothers Joe and Bob Johnson under the studio name IonFX. Joe Johnson developed an engine for the game called MILO.

The game garnered a 76% on the review aggregation website Metacritic. Rock, Paper, Shotgun concluded its review by saying that "while it may be overtly low-budget in some ways it damn well succeeds anyway. This is a plague you’ll want to catch". IGN wrote that "Surviving in Miasmata is not about the ending or the story it tries to tell, but the journey.

The journey will be tough. The journey will be a trial of patience and will. The journey will be perhaps one of the most memorable you’ll have in a PC game this year."