Quarantine Circular is an experimental short text-based game A group of scientists interrogate an alien discovered at the heart of a global pandemic. Work with your team, make decisions and uncover the alien's true intentions.
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That last puzzle came right the fuck out of nowhere
A conversational text adventure about first contact and dealing with a plague. Sequel to Subsurface Circular, which I think I liked more for its quirkiness, but this one felt much bigger, dramatic and like what I said mattered.
i loved itt omg bithell never disappoints
Not quite as good as the first, but not far off at all. I prefer the setting of Subsurface and I thought it used dialogue options far more effectively for the detective aspect of the game.
But the writing is still very witty, interesting, and even funny - even unintentionally with the pandemic line - and Mike Bithell manages to draw you into the world of his game even though you see so little of it.
The riddle with the second pass code pissed me off a bit, but otherwise this was a nice relaxing 2-hour sit. I'd love to see more of these, but given that it's been 5 years, I think it might've had its time.
But the writing is still very witty, interesting, and even funny - even unintentionally with the pandemic line - and Mike Bithell manages to draw you into the world of his game even though you see so little of it.
The riddle with the second pass code pissed me off a bit, but otherwise this was a nice relaxing 2-hour sit. I'd love to see more of these, but given that it's been 5 years, I think it might've had its time.
Great story and expansion to Subsurface, waiting for a sequel. I was lucky enough to get the most satisfying ending on my first playthrough (the one with Marc), which is the most unexpected one, awesome. But the other endings just follows what you'd expect, and considering how the third act is rushed, they feel quite mediocre.
I was very pleased with my first playthrough and will rate accordingly, but the game sure goes from 8 to 80 depending on your choice.
I was very pleased with my first playthrough and will rate accordingly, but the game sure goes from 8 to 80 depending on your choice.
Single complete playthrough. Although sharing its core gameplay approach and part of its name with the earlier Subsurface Circular, the story premise and setting are very different. Quarantine Circular depicts a future world in crisis, gripped by a pandemic plague, within which a first-contact alien encounter offers a potential salvation. The game plays out as a text adventure, with players taking control of a number of different key characters in turn as the scenario develops - ultimately, much of the game seems likely to play out much the same regardless of the minor choices made by players, but there are a few more significant choices that factor into which of a number of different endings will be reached. The perspective shifts are effective in allowing players to explore all aspects of the scenario, though I fond that this brought a few moments of frustration where you take control of characters with directly-opposing aims from those which you may previously have been following. Overall, as a short story, Quarantine Circular is another impressive effort from Mike Bithell and I look forward to seeing what comes next from his studio!