Pathologic Dialogue Search — Help

Before you begin

Popular searches on the main page are clickable — clicking one will automatically apply its filters and launch the search.

This site is still fairly new and currently in active testing. Bug fixes, parser changes, and large reindexes happen regularly.

Because of that, the search may occasionally be partially unavailable, temporarily slow, or under maintenance. Things should stabilize soon.

Thank you for your patience, bug reports, and support!

Basic search

Search is case-insensitive. Uppercase and lowercase letters are treated the same.

You can search using full words or fragments.

haruspex
harus
гаруспик
гарус

Fragments work too — you do not need to type an entire word.

Wildcards

The search understands SQL-style wildcard characters.

Wildcards can be placed anywhere — at the beginning, in the middle, at the end, or combined.

End wildcard:
har%
may match:
haruspex
harvest
harsh

Beginning wildcard:
%pex
may match:
haruspex
apex

Middle wildcard:
ha%ex
may match:
haruspex
halex

Single-character wildcard:
m_n
may match:
man
men
mon

Combined wildcards:
%ar_s%
may match:
haruspex
darkness
archives

Character normalization

Several visually similar or commonly interchangeable letters are treated as equivalent. This allows searching across keyboard layouts, OCR mistakes, and translation quirks.

Current substitutions:

h / x / х / һ → х
o / о / ө / ѳ → о
у / y / ү → у
е / ё / e → e
… → ...

Examples:

Searching хоlidaү may still find holiday.

Searching углоо may also find үглөө.

Whole word mode

Enable Whole word mode to restrict results to complete words only.

Without Whole Word:
art
may match:
earth
cart
article

With Whole Word enabled:
only standalone art

Notes