South of the Circle
Details
- MSRP: $12.99
- Release date: August 3, 2022
- Genre: Adventure
- Number of players:
- Offline: 1
- Developer: State of Play
- Publisher: 11 bit studios
- Download size: 2.37 GB
- Metacritic: 69 5.9
- OpenCritic:  75
- How Long To Beat:
- Main Story: 3½ hours
- Main + Extra: 3½ hours
- Completionist: 4 hours
- ESRB Rating: Teen
- Play modes: TV, Tabletop, Handheld
- Languages: Japanese, English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Steam
- Awards:
- Independent Games Festival 2023:
- Excellence in Audio (Nominated)
- Excellence in Narrative (Nominated)
- Independent Games Festival 2023:
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$5.19
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$12.99
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Price history
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| Switch | $5.19 | (-60%) |
| Steam | $3.96 | (-70%) |
| Xbox X|S / Xbox One | $7.79 | (-40%) |
| PS5 / PS4 | $5.19 | (-60%) |
Description
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.