Germs Nerawareta Machi (～狙われた街～) which translate to "Germs: the Targeted Town" is a Japanese exclusive first-person open world, survival-horror/adventure game developed by KAJ for the PlayStation in 1999.
Plot[]
The protagonist is a newspaper reporter who has returned to his hometown in order to investigate mysterious occurrences regarding strange mutated creatures appearing in the region.
Gameplay[]
Germs is an open world game where you can navigate by walking, driving a car, or taking the subway or bus. Much of the game consists of exploring and investigating leads to find areas of high mutant activity. During combat, if the players loses to a mutant, they don't die, but rather end up infected, they have to go to the hospital in order to cure their infection.
The game has an unsettling mix of science-fiction, cosmic and body-horror, and surrealism, possibly taking influences from the films of David Cronenberg, David Lynch and Shin'ya Tsukamoto as well as some of the 1950's and 1960's American science-fiction flicks and The X-files for the setting and the story.