The Magic Circle
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…
The Magic Circle is an adventure developed by Question, released 4 June 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 3.9 hrs to finish.
What The Magic Circle is
The Magic Circle is an adventure game developed by Question and released in 2015. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 14 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Magic Circle holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3.9 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.4Ghz or better, Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0Ghz Processor or better, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA 7800GT 256MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon X1900 256MB graphics card or better that supports Shader Model 3 and has at least 256 MB of VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Magic Circle launched on 4 June 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Batman: Arkham Knight, Splatoon and Heroes of the Storm. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Batman: Arkham Knight, Splatoon, Heroes of the Storm.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Magic Circle yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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