Quarantine Circular

Quarantine Circular is a text-based adventure game developed and published by Mike Bithell Games. The game was released for Windows and Macintosh-based personal computers in May 2018 and for Nintendo Switch devices in December 2018.

Quarantine Circular
Developer(s)Mike Bithell Games
Publisher(s)Mike Bithell Games
Composer(s)Dan le Sac
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch
Release
  • Microsoft Windows
  • 22 May 2018
  • Nintendo Switch
  • 8 December 2018
Genre(s)Text adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

Quarantine Circular is a conversation-based adventure game, presented in a three-dimensional, third-person perspective. The player controls a variety of characters who make decisions to resolve the situation. Options are limited depending on the character, reflecting their preconceptions.

Synopsis

In the wake of an epidemic that is threatening the human race, an alien is found, captured, and kept in quarantine until the world organization dedicated to containing the rampant disease — the IDCF (or International Disease Containment Fleet) — can communicate with the alien and find out why it is here. The choices made will dictate how the story unfolds.[1]

Development and release

Quarantine Circular was developed by Mike Bithell Games for Windows PC and Macintosh. It was later ported to Nintendo Switch.

Reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
VideoGamer.com7/10[2]
The Digital Fix10/10[3]

Quarantine Circular was received positively by professional critics.[1][2][3]

The game was criticized by Videogamer reviewer Alice Bell for being less focused than the previous game Subsurface Circular[2] and for having simpler puzzles by Dualshockers reviewer Micahel Ruiz.[1] Reviewer Jason Coles, writing for The Digital Fix, praised the game as being "brilliantly written" that is "at times charming, upsetting and inspiring", awarding the game 10/10.[3]

gollark: Bad things? So don't do that, silly.
gollark: The mobile app supports no commands.
gollark: A search query which returns lots of results is going to take longer than one which returns none, mostly, thus you have access to some data you shouldn't.
gollark: For example, send a request to `https://interweb.site/search-some-private-data?query=thing` using a form or `img` or `script` or whatever, and see how long it takes (using `onload`/`onerror` handlers and such).
gollark: The timing attacks thing: since you can send GET requests to domains you probably shouldn't be able to, and time how long they take, you can infer some data you shouldn't be able to from other domains.

References
  1. Ruiz, Michael (24 May 2018). "Quarantine Circular Review — Short and Sweet Sci-Fi". Dualshockers. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. Bell, Alice (22 May 2018). "Quarantine Circular Review". VideoGamer.com. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  3. Coles, Jason (2018). "Quarantine Circular Review". thedigitalfix.com. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
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