South of the Circle
State of Play · 2022 · Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Cinematic, Visual Novel
PC
Very Positive84% · 1,32275Metacritic
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About South of the Circle
South of the Circle is an emotional narrative experience with a deep multi-layered cinematic story. The main plot asks questions about the consequences of paths taken in life and how they have influenced our career and true love through the lens of the past and the future. You play Peter, a Cambridge academic who crashlands in Cold War Antarctica. As he searches for help, his past unwinds before him, revealing how the pressures of power and his own aspirations have led him into this crisis he must somehow escape. A love story between him and fellow academic Clara develops, and Peter learns the weight of all the things he has promised. Like memories from childhood, some promises stay with us forever.
MASTERFULLY EXECUTED CINEMATIC FEEL
Created by BAFTA winners State of Play, the game’s beautiful aesthetic and nuanced writing underlines its sweeping cinematic scope, further enhanced by actors drawn from “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Gwilym Lee), “The Woman in White” (Olivia Vinall), “The Crown” (Richard Goulding), “Game of Thrones” (Anton Lesser), “Chernobyl” (Adrian Rawlins) and “Downton Abbey” (Michael Fox).
FEATURES
- Compelling and immersive narrative with a unique sense of time and place.
- Nuanced emotional choices.
- Fully motion-captured performances to achieve emotional realism.
- Rich, authentic setting of the historical Cold War era.
- Environmental storytelling woven through the narrative.
- Distinguished and consistent art style.
- Crafted by State of Play Games, developers of BAFTA-winning Lumino City, BAFTA-nominated KAMI 2 and Apple Design Award Winner INKS, for audiences that seek emotional and heart-wrenching moments with a game.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
wow
Absolutely PEAK!
What a game! I loved it so much.
How much South of the Circle works for you will depend entirely on what you're looking for in a game. All of the criticisms levelled against it in the negative reviews are fair -- the game is only interactive in the lightest of senses. The ending did fall a little flat for me, though the more I've mulled it over since, the more satisfied I feel with it. But the quality of the storytelling is so high, in the writing, the acting and the visuals, that I found it a joy the whole way through. If you appreciate interactive fiction and an engrossing story, and you're not worried about the lack of fail-states or impactful choices, you'll have a great few hours with this. It's definitely one of the best examples of this kind of narrative experience that I've seen in a long time, as someone who plays a lot of this style of game.
so so beautiful game, and so heartful.
I'll echo some of the other reviews and say that the ending is a bit unsatisfying after so much time spent with the characters and environments. However, besides that, I really loved South of the Circle! I found the story interesting and I wanted to keep exploring. Superb voice acting, beautiful landscapes and scene design, and the developers did a great job instilling a feeling of isolation and abandonment in the Antarctic scenes. Would happily play more of these style of games!
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