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Quarantine Circular cover art

Quarantine Circular

Bithell Games · 2018-05-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Text

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.

Quarantine Circular is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2018, priced at $5.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and Very Positive (88% of 442 reviews).

0
playing now
88%
positive of 442 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (89 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

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 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
828220182026Week of 2018-05-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
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

1302026-05-30 — 5 pageviews2026-06-03 — 1 pageviews2026-06-07 — 7 pageviews2026-06-11 — 4 pageviews2026-06-15 — 4 pageviews2026-06-19 — 4 pageviews2026-06-23 — 6 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1 pageviews2026-07-05 — 2 pageviews2026-07-09 — 11 pageviews2026-07-13 — 13 pageviews2026-07-17 — 2 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 8 pageviews2026-07-29 — 7 pageviews2026-08-02 — 5 pageviews2026-08-06 — 3 pageviews2026-08-10 — 1 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-18 — 1 pageviews2026-08-22 — 6 pageviews2026-08-26 — 5 pageviews2026-08-30 — 3 pageviews2026-09-03 — 3 pageviews2026-09-07 — 2 pageviews2026-09-11 — 6 pageviews2026-09-15 — 3 pageviews2026-09-19 — 5 pageviews2026-09-23 — 5 pageviews2026-09-27 — 5 pageviews2026-10-01 — 4 pageviews2026-10-05 — 3 pageviews2026-10-08 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
93.1%
earned "In at the deep end"
31%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudCommentary availableFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)83417%18
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

LogicAliensCasualSci-fiCinematicDetectiveDiplomacyFuturisticText-BasedVisual Novel

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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