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Subsurface Circular

94% positive of 1,494 Steam reviews

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Released
2017
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Bithell Games.

About the game

When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Tagged by players

  • Noir
  • Detective
  • Investigation
  • Robots
  • Text-Based
  • Dialogue Heavy
  • Visual Novel
  • Philosophical
  • Choices Matter
  • Cyberpunk
  • Mystery
  • Cinematic

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What players say

  • Recommended
    A neat, very little game. Clocking in around 3 hours, it's a linear text-based narrative experience that is a straight march from start to finish, with primarily aesthetic differences between playthroughs, and a few puzzles that aren't particularly challenging. The story's strength lies in its structure. You are a detective Tek, an intelligent robot, working on a mystery, but due to your programming you can't leave…

    2.9 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Calling Subsurface Circular a "detective game" or an "investigation" is just wrong. In actual detective titles you have to form hypotheses, inspect clues, and risk being wrong. In Subsurface Circular you cannot fail, you cannot deduce anything independently, and you have zero investigative freedom - you literally click the only highlighted topic available until the game feeds you the next keyword to give to the next…

    2.9 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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