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The Magic Circle
Jul 9, 2015·91% positive·
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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?
Best games like The Magic Circle
The best games like The Magic Circle are Face It - A game to fight inner demons, The Talos Principle, Magnetic: Cage Closed, THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE, and Super Drift Blade. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 91% positive across 1k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Action, Strategy, Indie, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $9.99 pricing signal.
- Face It - A game to fight inner demons - Face It - A game to fight inner demons is closely similar to The Magic Circle because both are Action and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Puzzle, Indie.
- The Talos Principle - The Talos Principle is loosely similar to The Magic Circle because both are Action and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Puzzle, Indie.
- Magnetic: Cage Closed - Magnetic: Cage Closed is loosely similar to The Magic Circle because both are Action and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Puzzle, Indie.
- THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE - THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE is loosely similar to The Magic Circle because both are Action and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Puzzle, Story Rich.
- Super Drift Blade - Super Drift Blade is closely similar to The Magic Circle because both are Action and Strategy and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Puzzle.
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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.
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