The Magic Circle
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?
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Developer: Question Publisher: Question
Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian
Tags: Adventure (49), Puzzle (43), Indie (41), Story Rich (38), Simulation (32), First-Person (32), Action (30), Comedy (29), Satire (28), Strategy (27), Singleplayer (21), Programming (17), Walking Simulator (12), Exploration (8)
Category: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Release date: Jul 9, 2015 (previously in Early Access)
Price: $19.99
Score rank: 96% Userscore: 91% Old userscore: 91% Metascore: 79%
Owners: 50,000 .. 100,000
Ownership data: 2026-11-12 (UTC)
Followers: 15,318
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 1
Playtime total: 03:29 (average) 03:46 (median)
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