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Price
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2018 · Bithell Games · Adventure · Indie

Quarantine Circular

Nintendo console exclusive

Quarantine Circular is an experimental short text-based game

Released
22 May 2018
Platforms
Nintendo SwitchWindowsmacOS
Genres
AdventureIndiePuzzleScience
Developers
Bithell Games
Publishers
Bithell Games
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Third personText
Themes
Science fictionDrama
Country
United Kingdom
Age ratings
ESRB TPEGI 16
Languages
English
Time to beat
2hmain story4hcompletionist

About

Quarantine Circular is a text-based adventure game developed and published by Mike Bithell Games. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and macOS in May 2018 and for Nintendo Switch in December 2018. It is the sequel to Subsurface Circular.

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Gameplay

Quarantine Circular is a conversation-based adventure game, presented in a three-dimensional, third-person perspective. The player controls a variety of characters who make decisions to resolve the situation. Options are limited depending on the character, reflecting their preconceptions.

Story

In the wake of an epidemic that is threatening the human race, an alien is found, captured, and kept in quarantine until the world organization dedicated to containing the rampant disease — the IDCF (or International Disease Containment Fleet) — can communicate with the alien and find out why it is here. The choices made will dictate how the story unfolds.

Reception

Quarantine Circular was received positively by professional critics.

The game was criticized by VideoGamer reviewer Alice Bell for being less focused than the previous game Subsurface Circular and for having simpler puzzles by Dualshockers reviewer Micahel Ruiz.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows22 May 2018Worldwide
macOS22 May 2018Worldwide
Nintendo Switch8 December 2018North America · Worldwide 8 December 2018

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