
- 80/100
- Players9 ratings
- 80/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- Metacritic9 critic reviews
- 73/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 68/100
- GameFAQsSimple-Easy
- 3.67/5
- Player reviews
- 88% positive432 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac
- Price
- US$5.99
Where to get it

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.
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