环形杀手 Circle Killer
ShangKun Li · 2023 · Casual, Action-Adventure, Arcade, Design & Illustration, Audio Production
PC
8 user reviews75% · 8
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About 环形杀手 Circle Killer
This is a musical action game with multiple gameplay attempts
Introduction
In the game, you play as the "original", dodging blocks in different levels, surviving for a certain amount of time or achieving certain conditions to achieve victory
The current levels in the game have different operating skills, including "time dilation", "time stop", "time travel" and so on
In different levels, the above abilities will also change.
The game has multiple levels to play, each of which contains different random elements
Fall Level - You need to avoid enemies generated according to the music frequency and survive for a specified time until you win
Shuttle Level - You need to travel through a time tunnel, according to the rhythm of the music to use the ability to travel through time, reach the end to win
Vampire Survivor Level - Vampire-like survivor's meat pigeon level, you need to ensure your survival while fending off the constant arrival of monsters. There are three development routes to choose from, develop your survival strategy, and survive long enough.
Art style
The game uses a unified - Cyberneon, steam wave style
It is called "light pollution", which also means that if you have a series of complications such as "photosensitive epilepsy", discomfort and play this game
Special mechanism
Time dilation - When you use this skill in a certain level, it will slow down the time flow of all objects except your main character. It can help you create time to think about countermeasures, and using this ability will also slow down the time count.
Time Stop - This ability is similar to DIO's ability in JOJO, as the name suggests, it is quite powerful, but you are also affected by the time stop, which pauses the time count.
Time Switch - This ability allows you to travel through different dimensions of time and space while exposing yourself to different challenges. Properly used, this ability can greatly reduce the difficulty of playing a level
Introduction
In the game, you play as the "original", dodging blocks in different levels, surviving for a certain amount of time or achieving certain conditions to achieve victory
The current levels in the game have different operating skills, including "time dilation", "time stop", "time travel" and so on
In different levels, the above abilities will also change.
The game has multiple levels to play, each of which contains different random elements
Fall Level - You need to avoid enemies generated according to the music frequency and survive for a specified time until you win
Shuttle Level - You need to travel through a time tunnel, according to the rhythm of the music to use the ability to travel through time, reach the end to win
Vampire Survivor Level - Vampire-like survivor's meat pigeon level, you need to ensure your survival while fending off the constant arrival of monsters. There are three development routes to choose from, develop your survival strategy, and survive long enough.
Art style
The game uses a unified - Cyberneon, steam wave style
It is called "light pollution", which also means that if you have a series of complications such as "photosensitive epilepsy", discomfort and play this game
Special mechanism
Time dilation - When you use this skill in a certain level, it will slow down the time flow of all objects except your main character. It can help you create time to think about countermeasures, and using this ability will also slow down the time count.
Time Stop - This ability is similar to DIO's ability in JOJO, as the name suggests, it is quite powerful, but you are also affected by the time stop, which pauses the time count.
Time Switch - This ability allows you to travel through different dimensions of time and space while exposing yourself to different challenges. Properly used, this ability can greatly reduce the difficulty of playing a level
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Circle Killer is a movement-dodging game with forced rhythm/QTE mechanics that players find conceptually mismatched and poorly executed, comparing it to failed Guitar Hero hybrids that lack broad appeal. The game suffers from low-quality polygonal visuals that feel unpolished, combined with no English localization and unclear monetization practices that undermine its free-to-play status, leading reviewers to dismiss it as an underdeveloped project rather than a finished game.
"环形杀手 Circle Killer" is a basic tech demo/homework assignment or something... it's a movement/dodging game combined with rhtythm/QTE gameplay... once more a developer thought making a Guitar Hero hybrid with another kind of game genre that should never have QTE mechanics would make them famous. Spoiler: It never makes them famous, it's a terrible idea. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. This features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and it's clear the developers behind this didn't understand that. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Eve…2 found this helpful
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