Godgames | The Magic Circle or A game about what happened to Godus.

Deth
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The Magic Circle or A game about what happened to Godus. Sept 23, 2015 12:36:01 GMT Lord Ba'al and mindless like this

Post by Deth on Sept 23, 2015 12:36:01 GMT

I found this on my steam queue and it caught my interest and kind of reminded me of how I feel playing Godus. I have not brought it yet, but I am thinking of it.

You are the protagonist of an unfinished 1st person fantasy game, trapped in development hell. The designers (played by James Urbaniak, Ashly Burch, and Karen Dyer) are god-like, but so indecisive that they've given you no powers whatsoever. With the help of a mysterious disembodied voice (Stephen Russell) you must seize the tools of game development from these unworthy 'gods', uncovering more of the darkly comic story as you go. Rather than traditional puzzles with a single solution, the incomplete state of each environment is a question that you answer in your own way. Trap the designers' creations, steal their behaviors, and re-mix them to explore and master this world-in-progress. Can you out-think the game gods? Can you ship The Magic Circle from inside it?

store.steampowered.com/app/323380/?snr=1_5_9__205The Magic Circle

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The Magic Circle or A game about what happened to Godus. Sept 24, 2015 5:57:19 GMT Lord Ba'al likes this

Post by greay on Sept 24, 2015 5:57:19 GMT

I enjoyed this game a lot. There were a couple places that were rough around the edges (no pun intended) when I played, but it's seen quite a few updates since then. Similar to other games that give you a lot of power to mess with the world (say, Scribblenauts), there are definitely some combinations that are more powerful than others & the fun is more in coming up with novel solutions than "solving" the puzzles per se.

The ... last? part of the game? Epilogue? is very, very different from the rest of the game, and when I played was by far the most undeveloped. It's a huge shift, and pretty interesting, but I didn't enjoy it as much. Even if that hasn't changed, though, I think the game's worth playing just for the stuff that comes before.

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Deth Grand Master Posts: 662	The Magic Circle or A game about what happened to Godus. Sept 24, 2015 11:55:13 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deth on Sept 24, 2015 11:55:13 GMT I might have to pick it up. I saw it went on sale yesterday. Like i said it is an interesting idea very matrixish with the hacking the system and all.
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The Magic Circle or A game about what happened to Godus.

Post by Deth on Sept 23, 2015 12:36:01 GMT

Post by greay on Sept 24, 2015 5:57:19 GMT

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Post by Deth on Sept 24, 2015 11:55:13 GMT

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