Phase 6 Protocol / In Active Development
The outbreak is not yours to control. The response is.
01 / The response
Game Description
Phase 6 Protocol is a global strategy game designed around the World Health Organization’s pandemic-phase escalation scale—from first alert to a declared Phase 6 global pandemic. You do not create the crisis. You coordinate the response to contain it.
This is a tense, turn-based investigative pandemic simulator where you command the Global Health Authority fighting a war you can't see. Outbreaks don't arrive with health bars, you sift chaotic news feeds, medical intelligence, and conflicting field reports to work out what you're actually facing before it's too late. Deploy field teams into the blind spots, juggle multiple concurrent outbreaks, and manage the response as the Global Threat Matrix escalates from first contact to a declared Phase 6 global pandemic, where the real fight begins. Every call you make, from quarantines to vaccine funding to how hard you push a panicked public, becomes part of your Phase 6 Protocol: the record of exactly how you fought it, revealed once the outbreak finally breaks.
02 / The unknown pathogen
The first emergency is knowing what you’re responding to.
Identification is its own investigation. Signals are noisy. Evidence arrives incomplete. Act on the wrong guess and the cost is more than a wasted turn: the political capital and containment tools you spend cannot simply be recovered.
"The pathogens that kill the most are never the aggressive ones."
— Dr. Amara Voss, GHA Chief Diagnostics Officer
03 / Containment Protocol
Every option is real. So is the cost.
04 / core Features
allocation
The Multi-Threat Crisis
The world doesn’t wait for you to finish one fight. Entirely separate pathogens can be spreading in different regions at once, each with its own transmission profile and its own clock forcing you to decide, every turn, which outbreak actually gets your attention.
"The second outbreak doesn't wait for a press conference about the first."
— Field Director Okonkwo, GHA Rapid Response Division
intelligence
The Diagnostic Fog of War
Every pathogen starts hidden. Deploy Rapid Response, Investigation, and Lab Sampling teams into the blind spots to pull transmission data, symptom profiles, and mutation traits out of the dark. While headlines, hospital admissions, and unverified field chatter compete to tell you what’s really out there before you commit resources.
Trust
The Breaking Point
Every countermeasure has a cost, and Political Will pays it first. Lock down a region before the threat is confirmed and trust collapses disproportionately. Push hard enough, and compliance turns to open defiance. Wait until the crisis clearly justifies it, and compliance holds instead of breaking.
escalation
The Global Threat Matrix
A real WHO-style escalation ladder, not a difficulty slider: Phase 4’s first sustained regional transmission, Phase 5’s spread across borders within a region, and the Phase 6 declaration, the moment the world calls it a pandemic, and where the real weight of command sets in.
"Phase 5 is a warning. Phase 6 is a verdict."
— Dr. Farah Nasser, Chair of the GHA Emergency Committee
Pandemic Response Command
From your Pandemic Response Command Tactical Projection, you watch diagnostics come in, push compliance before trust runs out, and race a vaccine against a deadline only you can see. Every decision happens right there, turn by turn.
05 / Your Protocol
Every call is yours to make. Write your own Phase 6 Protocol.
Release Notice / Phase 6 Protocol
Receive the readiness signal.
One message when the response is ready to enter the field.