South of the Circle
South of the Circle Deluxe Edition
South of the Circle Deluxe Edition contains an additional set of digital goods including the complete game soundtrack, Eighty Two Nineteen – South of the Circle e-book written by the game’s director, and Circles EP created in collaboration with the Frostpunk OST composer.
This package includes:
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South of the Circle
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South of the Circle Soundtrack
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South of the Circle: E-book – Eighty Two Nineteen
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Circles EP: South of the Circle x Frostpunk
About the Game
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.
Game Discussion
Steam User 9
Being set in Antarctica attracted me to this game, and my perspective is possibly an unusual one as my job is Antarctica, I have spent time on the cold continent for work, I've lived and experienced that extreme environment and appreciate that someone actually put it into a game and portrayed it well. That is rare.
I found this game to be captivating (I had completed it on iOS) and it really resonated with me in the way they portrayed the cold, the ice, the experience. I wasn't expecting the alternating narrative but genuinely appreciated it, I really enjoyed the storytelling here. The voice acting is great, I like the graphical style and the mocap works well.
The delivery of the game is good, with the gameplay factor maybe lacking a little, but as an interactive story it is top notch. I think on steam it may be a little overpriced, at least in Australia, though I understand the production quality is high. I do recommend this game, enough that I bought it for both Steam and iOS.
Steam User 11
South of the Circle is a narrative masterpiece where a doctor travels to Antarctica and meets with an accident. While trying to rescue himself, he recalls the incidents that leads till his current situation. I really like how emotional this whole game felt, I went through so many emotions for the protagonist; despair, joy, love. This game is well made and you can see the love poured into this game. Definitely recommended!
Steam User 6
Understanding what the game is meant to be will determine if you like it. It is meant to tell a story. That's it. This isnt Until Dawn. Knowing this, I enjoyed the story very much. Good character development and fantastic graphic style. If you have a few free hours and want to be invested in a good story, snag it and give it a try.
Steam User 5
South of the Circle is a narrative walking sim with dialogues where you don't choose what you say, but rather pick one of a couple of emotions, it might take a while before you figure out what shape is what emotion but it does make the dialogue flow fairly well. The stongest parts is definitly in the voice acting and the largely very well written script.
However you might be annoyed by your choices meaning absoltutely nothing in the end, even if the game does track your choices. At first I was confused but i think I know what they are going for and it does work for me, but I might also read too much into it. I prefer it to be a narrative choice rather than poor design.
Steam User 7
This is a beautiful game of the perilous effects that academia and patriarchy can do to the creative work that women have always been involved in. If "behind every great man, there's a greater women" was a game, this would be it. I'm a bit miffed at some minor tech issues and the ending being unchanged even if you stick to your principles, but otherwise the writing, VO, and graphics make for an overall great time.
Steam User 4
Hard to give this a thumbs up, but I don't think it deserves a thumbs down either. This is barely a game - mostly you're just walking forward and clicking the odd dialogue choice. The negative reviews are correct that these make absoultely no difference to the outcome. I think you could argue though that this is the point, and that rather than a survival or spy story this is really a meditation on regret and things our minds will do to convince us that we've made the right choices even when we haven't. It's a good game if you don't mind that it's not really a game, and a good story if you can see past the surface to the deeper themes.
Steam User 4
South of the Circle is a 3 hour long playable novel/movie, Something different, it’s set in before the cold war and during the cold war in the Antarctic, The story is being told in sequences that jump around in time back and forth.
What I really disliked is that you can’t disable the Film Grain. I noticed a heavy film grain effect on my screen. I'm disappointed but I understand why they want to make it that way permanent. So, I just played it on my handheld instead.
Choices in the game are pointless. Gameplay is very basic. A simplistic art style.
Runs great on any device, no matter how low or high spec your PC is.