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The Magic Circle
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?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“عمل متذاكي عن تطوير بايوشوك، مثل ما بايوشوك عمل متذاكي عن الراندية.”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“The game has remaining bugs that have prevented me form completing the achievements. But the game and story is fun even with some exceptionally baffling choices like no sprint and locking the story behind audio logs your forced to try and find to know what the hell is going on.”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“great broken game about videogames, gamedev, and videogame industry.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update With A Small Fix
This update is just a small fix for a location in the intro level where it was possible to get stuck in the geometry if you were really testing the edges of the game. Since we actively try to encourag
Update With A Small Fix
This update is just a small fix for a location in the intro level where it was possible to get stuck in the geometry if you were really testing the edges of the game. Since we actively try to encourag
Update With Some Bugfixes
Today we are updating with an important (if very rare) bugfix. There was an issue where *spoilers ahead* damage done by the parasite ability did not properly send life back into the crack system. This
Update With Some Bugfixes
Today we are updating with an important (if very rare) bugfix. There was an issue where *spoilers ahead* damage done by the parasite ability did not properly send life back into the crack system. This
June Update with a Number of Tweaks and Fixes
This update focuses on a few technical issues that could have affected framerate in certain conditions, some usability and training improvements, a fix for overlays on creatures not updating properly
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Adventure · Puzzle · Indie · Story Rich · Simulation · First-Person · Action · Satire · Strategy · Comedy · Singleplayer · Programming (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian * |
| Achievements | 14 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.magiccirclegame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.4Ghz or better, Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0Ghz Processor or better Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA 7800GT 256MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon X1900 256MB graphics card or better that supports Shader Model 3 and has at least 256 MB of VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0C compliant sound card or onboard sound Additional Notes: NOTICE: Intel HD 4000 chipset is not supported