Circle With A Gun

Circle With A Gun

Seamus Allen · February 22, 2026 · Arcade, Casual, Bullet Hell, Action Roguelike, Action

Circle With A Gun is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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About Circle With A Gun

The world is falling to the darkness of angular magic. The circles that should have defended us grew fat on the largesse of their people. One by one, the innocents are bent into grotesque, polyhedral forms.One hope remains, free of the angular corruption.And someone just gave him a gun.Circle With A Gun is a bullet hell roguelike where you are a force of destruction from the moment you pick up the controls. The endless hordes of Vampire Survivors meets the satisfying micro of Hades, all set to a retro arcade soundtrack that slaps harder than it has any right to.

How It Plays

Feel the rhythm. Enter flow state. Become the chaos.Your secondary weapon hits hard — but only fires when you stop moving. You find the pattern: dart into position, plant your feet, unload, move before they reach you. It’s simple, but it creates an addictive bliss that's genuinely hard to put down. The original soundtrack by Sam Jett was composed to lock into exactly that rhythm. You will feel it.Meanwhile, powerups scattered across the arena flip the tension on a dime. One moment you're threading through a horde by the skin of your teeth, salvation just out of reach. Then you grab the lightning powerup — and suddenly you're the horde. A window of overwhelming, ridiculous power opens up, and you run screaming toward your enemies to make the most of it before it's gone.It's the same cycle that made Pac-Man brilliant. Fear, then fury. Repeat. It’s so good we struggled to finish the game because we just couldn’t stop playing.Each run, you collect experience and select upgrades that compound and synergize. Fire rate paired with per-hit bonuses, speed boosts that reward aggressive positioning—builds that change your strategy and help you scale to match the ever-growing hordes.Earning high scores and completing difficult achievements unlocks new characters with new loadouts, and you can earn high scores for each of them. You'll find yourself coming back not just to beat your own best, but because Sydney is somehow ranked first on four of them and that simply cannot stand.

What You're Getting

  • Instant flow state. Circle With A Gun was designed to maximize the fun of the very first run.
  • 5 enemy types that each demand different movement responses, not just more firepower.
  • 8 unlockable characters. Some thrive up close, some snipe from afar. Wacky Steve brings a trusty boomerang. Bombs McGee… well, you can guess.
  • Endless challenge. The rush of a new high score—and the animation that accompanies it—is worth dying for over and over again. We promise.
  • A retro arcade soundtrack by Sam Jett, written just for this game.
  • …all for free. That’s basically infinite value.

One More Thing

No modern game (even one as free and fabulous as this) is complete without a way to buy stuff. Enter Miss Microtransaction, the game’s ninth character.She comes packing a pink sniper rifle with a faster fire rate for up-close blasting, a weather charm that summons pink lightning, and a special outfit for extra cuteness. We're honestly not sure how to appeal to the male gamer gaze, but we're doing our best. Please give us money.

Circle With A Gun — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Jun 13, 2026
My boy Bombs McGee ftw I actually really liked this game, played for 50 minutes and got all the achievements. Would totally recommend to a friend.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 12, 2026
nice game but u cant get all achievements as a free to play so...
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 30, 2026
Circle With A Gun is a really simple game on the surface, but I think it gets the important part right. I am basically a circle with a gun trying to survive against endless groups of enemies, and the whole thing is built around moving, shooting and making quick decisions. It has that old arcade feeling where I can understand the controls almost immediately and then spend the rest of the time trying to get better at actually using them. The thing I liked most is the way the secondary weapon works. It only fires when I stop moving, so I have to find a safe place, stop for a moment, fire and then get moving again before the enemies reach me. That sounds like a small mechanic, but it changes the way I play quite a bit. I cannot just run around constantly while shooting everything. I have to find a rhythm between movement and attacking, especially when the screen starts filling up with enemies. The powerups are another good part. I can be struggling to survive with enemies surrounding me, then grab something like the lightning powerup and suddenly have a short period where I can go completely wild. I like that change of pace because it gives me a reason to take risks when I see a powe…
Recommended Jun 25, 2026
This is a prime example of how you don't need these fancy graphics or riveting new gameplay to produce a good game. This game shows how there is no need to make things photo-realistic to make a good game. I would also like to give a massive thank you to the developers to not put this out for some outrageous price, I mean, anyone can play this at any time, on pretty much anything, I am on a 2015 work HP laptop and the game runs smooth as butter! I would give this game a 9.8/10, the only reason it's not a ten is because the music is a bit repetitive, but you can turn it down
Recommended Jun 14, 2026
I like the game, but can you put an FPS slider would recommend it to a friend.
Recommended Jun 13, 2026
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