The Magic Circle Brings Meta-Game Craziness Onto Steam Early Access

If you’re looking for something different, you might be interested in the Magic Circle, a strange RPG that has recently hit Steam Early Access. What makes it so odd? In this game, you play the main hero of an unfinished game, angry that your creators have failed to live up to their promises. Attacking the creatures in your world and swapping powers with them, you can either cancel the game or help ship it from within your world (A game within a game?), which gives you an idea of how non-serious this RPG is.

A short blurb from the designers sums it up a bit better:

    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 “gods” in order to explore and master the world, 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. By trapping the designers’ creations, stealing their behaviors, and re-mixing them to your own purposes – you will either ship the game from the inside … or cancel it.

Question, the game’s developer, has added a 10% discount to the game in order to celebrate its debut on the service, lowering its standard 19.99 price to 17.99.

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Carl is both a JRPG fan and a CRPG'er who especially loves European PC games. Even with more than three decades of gaming under his belt, he feels the best of the hobby is yet to come.


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