???? Circles Reviews

Thank you Jeroen, a really nice and simplistic game. I was feeling stressed this morning and it helped me calm down. Nice calm music and nice mechanics. Have a great day !

Fun game with lots of challenges from a single concept. Amazing how many different way circles can be manipulated to solve a puzzle. This is the type of game you set out to play for 10 minutes and end up spending half an hour just playing one more puzzle. Highly recommended.

- It is more a mini-game than a puzzle game - I do somewhat enjoy the gameplay mechanics - The music is serviceable - At times it is relaxing, at times it is plain boring - My favorite part of the game is collecting the circles after completing a level, it is a satisfying minimalist reward 🔴 Circles currently has 92% positive rating on Steam and it does get a recommendation from me, but really this is not a must play.

An elegant and cute game that will take an hour of your time, a little bit of puzzle solving and some coordination. The puzzles are original and never too repetitive, the design is beautiful and soundtrack very relaxing. If you were a fan of Osmos (like I was) you will enjoy this game.

The main game has great puzzles designed around tracking the circles around each other. It is all quite clever. Every puzzle is thoughtful and the music/SFX accompaniment is relaxing and encouraging--even when I make a mistake. That being said, I have found little enjoyment in playing with the additional difficulty modifiers, and though that the last handful of stages were anxiety-inducing because of the need for continuous and precise mouse movement.

Bite-size games are a good genre. Circles is a short experiment that's fun to blaze through. You learn a lot of mechanics very quickly and organically. There's no down-time and it doesn't overstay its welcome.

This game is a well made, short, minimalistic, elegant little mind exercise. If that sounds like something you will enjoy, get this. But you should be wary of a few things: [list] [*]The main levels (other than the extra challenge modes that alter the gameplay) take around an hour. I personally felt I was done with the game after 1 hour of gameplay. It might be just me. [*]Not all levels are fun, but all are well designed. [*]Some levels feel repetitive for a puzzle game. There are a lot of variety on mechanics, but the puzzles using those mechanics rarely surprise more than twice. [/list] If you are okay with the above things, get the game, because this kind of elegancy in game design is hard to find these days.

Not a puzzle game, despite claiming to be. It's just a series of "can you move your mouse at the right speed in the right direction?" levels. I did a few dozen of them and there was minimal thinking involved, just some kind of light dexterity testing. I didn't find it relaxing or puzzling or even particularly interesting, although it does do a pretty good job of presenting things completely non-verbally and encouraging you to figure out yourself what to do on each level. It runs fine in Linux, so that's something...

A great wordless puzzle game that gets rid of alot of the typical exhaustion and anxiety that you sometimes have in traditional puzzle games. Really easy to sit down and relax to, puzzles aren't incredibly complex but they require experimentation and some "self-teaching" that makes them feel really rewarding.

Circles is not a terrible game, but it is deceiving, even after having played the demo. Circles presents itself as a 90+ levels puzzle game. However, it is not a puzzle game. There is no thinking required to complete any level. Circles is simply a series of mouse-controlled dexterity mini-games, where you will have to move your mouse in the proper way (speed, angle, etc...) to complete a level. These 90 levels are also extremely simple, and even without paying attention I blasted through the game in less than an hour - for a 8€ game, that's pretty terrible value. There are four additional modes that make you replay through the same levels with an added gimmick for difficulty (like rotating levels), which could kick playtime to 3h or so, if you really want to replay the same levels 5 times. On the other hand, there is definitely some interesting elements in Circles. For one, the entire game UI is based on circles. There are no words, no menus, and not a single shape on screen that is not a circle. Everything the game needs to convey, it tells via circles, colours and sound cues. While the design in itself is intriguing enough, what actually makes this weird choice compelling is that it is up to you to understand what the game expects of you. That would make for great puzzles, if...Circles ever resisted you, but it doesn't. It is too simple for this to become an enticing challenge. The other aspects of the game are pretty weak too. The minimalistic visuals (colors + circles) actually manage to be eye-seering in a few levels, due to downright idiotic color choices (yeah bright yellow on bright red, this ought to work, right?). The sound is nothing you haven't heard in a million puzzle games before: jazzy/electronic atmospheres, with sound cues based on your mouse movements. While it is not bad and has some interesting elements, I cannot reasonsably recommend anyone to use 8€ on this game when there are many superior puzzlers on Steam for half the price. Cool concept, but Circles is really just that: a concept. Pros: - Really nifty UI - Unique mechanic in trying to figure out what the game expects of you Cons: - Extremely short (under an hour, 3 tops if you replay the same levels with modes 5 times) - Barely any thinking, more dexterity than puzzle - Dirt easy - Some terrible color palette choices which hurt the eye - Beside the UI, you've seen it all before - Expensive