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Quarantine Circular

Bithell Games · 2018-05-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 08, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), May 22, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 22, 2018 (Mac)

In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.

0
playing now
88%
positive of 442 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Quarantine Circular is a text-based adventure game developed and published by Mike Bithell Games. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and macOS in May 2018 and for Nintendo Switch in December 2018. It is the sequel to Subsurface Circular.

Health check

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  • · Top 42% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 442 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.19 at Steam (2022-06-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$1.192018-05-232026-07-092018-05-23 — best price $4.792018-07-30 — best price $4.792018-10-30 — best price $4.792018-12-20 — best price $4.792019-04-29 — best price $4.792019-06-08 — best price $2.992019-09-30 — best price $4.792019-11-27 — best price $4.792020-01-23 — best price $4.792020-03-03 — best price $4.792020-06-25 — best price $4.792020-10-29 — best price $4.792020-12-22 — best price $4.792021-06-24 — best price $4.792021-10-28 — best price $2.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-06-15 — best price $1.192022-11-29 — best price $5.992023-03-23 — best price $5.992023-10-23 — best price $5.992024-01-11 — best price $5.992024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-06-10 — best price $5.992024-10-13 — best price $4.792024-12-19 — best price $1.192025-06-16 — best price $2.992025-07-28 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-05-04 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudCommentary availableFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

LogicAliensCasualSci-fiCinematicDetectiveDiplomacyFuturisticText-BasedVisual Novel

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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