🔴 Circles

🔴 Circles

Jeroen Wimmers · February 17, 2017 · Experimental, Minimalist, Abstract, Relaxing, Puzzle

🔴 Circles is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

PC
Very Positive89% · 28276Metacritic
Best price
Free
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🔴 Circles price

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About 🔴 Circles

✦ AI summary

Circles is a wordless puzzle game where you manipulate circles purely through mouse movement to discover hidden rules and reach each level's endpoint. Its intuitive, experimental design across 90 levels and multiple modes creates an atmospheric experience based entirely on intuitive interaction and discovery.

Circles is a unique, intuitive puzzle game where everything responds to your mouse.
It presents itself without any text and asks you to experiment.

By simply moving the cursor, you’ll uncover the underlying rules of each circle. According to the movements you make, they grow, shrink or move around the screen. Experiment and find your way to the end point to complete each level.

Content
• 90 levels + extra challenges
• 4 unique modes for replayability

Features
• Unique and intuitive gameplay
• Does not contain a single word
• Based completely on mouse movement
• Atmospheric and interactive music
• Lots and lots of circles

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🔴 Circles — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Circles is a free minimalist puzzle game where you guide circles through mouse-based challenges across 90+ levels with intuitive controls and ambient sound design. Players praise its elegant simplicity, smooth gameplay, and meditative experience, though opinions diverge on difficulty—some find the puzzles engaging but not frustrating, while others note the focus is more on execution and dexterity than traditional puzzle-solving. Since it's free to play with no strings attached, players see no reason not to try it.

Recommended May 29, 2026
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Recommended Apr 19, 2026
6/10 Circles is a minimalist abstract puzzle game with 90+ levels. Challenging, simple, and short. Circles is an extremely intuitive minimalistic abstract puzzle game with 90+ levels. You guide your mouse through various circle based puzzles that increase with difficulty as the game progresses. No text, no distractions, just a relaxing experience with minimal sounds and music that correlate with your experience while you guide yourself through the puzzles. The puzzles themselves aren’t too difficult although I did struggle with a few levels. The gameplay was smooth and I didn’t encounter any bugs while playing. It took me ~1 hour to complete the game with all achievements. No cards. Free to play so there shouldn’t be any reason not to give it a try! Although the game description says there’s replayability in the different modes- there’s not much reason for it. Once I got my fill of the game, I didn’t want to go back into it. If you get stuck or are struggling, there’s no hints to guide you in the right direction causing some frustration. [u]Pros[/u] [list] [*] Intuitive. [*] Minimalistic. [*] Over 90 levels, more with the different game modes. [*] Nondistracting gam…
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 6, 2026
This is an excellent puzzle/dexterity game, and it's FREE. Minimalist circle graphics, ambient background music/sounds, and the only needed input is mouse movement. There are close to 100 puzzles grouped into themes, and while they're all pretty quick once you know the tricks, it can be a challenge to learn the intended solution then get your brain/hands to do it. All of the puzzles require various combinations of movement speed, movement direction, orbit direction, etc. I didn't find any of them (except one in the 3rd optional group) frustrating, but they all require a keen mind and some decent mouse control. If you're stuck, you can analyze how things move around after the first time you fail, but I do wish that were allowed from the beginning. Again, it's free, so it costs you nothing to try out. Highly recommended, and I loved earning my 100% (the one where movement was reversed was awesome).
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 24, 2026
Execution not puzzle
Recommended Aug 20, 2026
move circle into various other circles
Recommended Jun 16, 2026
(update) It actually reminded me of Hiromi Uehara's Kung-Fu World Champion— that same jagged, kinetic jazz-piano "martial" energy transposed into a game context. 10/10 This is one of those rare works that genuinely surprises you—an experience that feels equal parts art and philosophy. If you map the game’s identity onto the logic of combat sports, the four opening stages and the four successive playthroughs (NG→NG+ cycles)​ can be read almost like this progression: Tai Chi → Sumo → Boxing → Fencing. Even across these shifts, you constantly feel the dialectic at play—offense and defense swapping places; advance and retreat; fast and slow; gain and loss; victory and defeat. On top of that, the sound design, score, color palette, art direction, and interaction all come together with a polish and flow that pull you straight into the world. Beyond all that, the game hides an even more fascinating layer inside its tutorial and mechanics. At first, you think you've beaten the four opening stages — but really, you were only learning the basic moves, traits, and philosophies behind different martial arts. That's the journey from practice to understanding. Then comes the next four playthrou…

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