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The Magic Circle

The Magic Circle

July 9, 2015 $9.99
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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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You are the protagonist of an unfinished 1st person fantasy game, trapped in development hell. The designers (played by James Urbaniak , Ashly Burch , and Karen Dyer ) are god-like, but so indecisive that they've given you no powers whatsoever. With the help of a mysterious disembodied voice ( Stephen Russell ) you must seize the tools of game development from these unworthy 'gods', uncovering more of the darkly comic story as you go. Rather than traditional puzzles with a single solution, the incomplete state of each environment is a question that you answer in your own way. Trap the designers' creations, steal their behaviors, and re-mix them to explore and master this world-in-progress. Can you out-think the game gods? Can you ship The Magic Circle from inside it? Warning: Some strong language and references to adult subject matter.

79 Metacritic
1364 Positive
112 Negative
1065 Recommendations
14 Achievements

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Genres

Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Action, Strategy

Categories

Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support

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Adventure (49) Puzzle (42) Indie (41) Story Rich (38) Simulation (32) First-Person (31) Action (30) Satire (28) Strategy (27) Comedy (27) Singleplayer (21) Programming (15) Walking Simulator (9) Exploration (6)

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About

You are the protagonist of an unfinished 1st person fantasy game, trapped in development hell. The designers (played by James Urbaniak , Ashly Burch , and Karen Dyer ) are god-like, but so indecisive that they've given you no powers whatsoever. With the help of a mysterious disembodied voice ( Stephen Russell ) you must seize the tools of game development from these unworthy 'gods', uncovering more of the darkly comic story as you go. Rather than traditional puzzles with a single solution, the incomplete state of each environment is a question that you answer in your own way. Trap the designers' creations, steal their behaviors, and re-mix them to explore and master this world-in-progress. Can you out-think the game gods? Can you ship The Magic Circle from inside it? Warning: Some strong language and references to adult subject matter.

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