The Game Census
The Magic Circle cover art

The Magic Circle

Question · 2015-07-09

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 04, 2015 (Linux), Apr 26, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Jun 29, 2016 (Xbox One), Jun 04, 2015 (Mac), Jun 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?

0
playing now
92%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
3.9h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

The Magic Circle is a 2015 sandbox video game developed and published by American indie team Question for Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 38k–90k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,500 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2019-02-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$3.992015-05-132026-07-092015-05-13 — best price $17.992015-07-08 — best price $19.992015-09-22 — best price $13.392016-01-04 — best price $19.992016-04-18 — best price $19.992016-06-23 — best price $9.992016-07-10 — best price $19.992016-09-08 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $9.992017-04-17 — best price $19.992017-09-01 — best price $5.992017-11-01 — best price $19.992017-12-21 — best price $5.992018-04-09 — best price $19.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-11-27 — best price $19.992019-02-04 — best price $3.992019-05-23 — best price $19.992019-10-28 — best price $5.992019-12-19 — best price $5.992020-01-22 — best price $5.992020-06-25 — best price $4.992020-11-02 — best price $19.992021-01-14 — best price $5.992021-10-08 — best price $19.992021-12-22 — best price $4.992022-05-24 — best price $19.992022-09-19 — best price $4.992022-12-02 — best price $19.992023-05-16 — best price $9.992023-09-01 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $6.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-04-25 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2332026-06-01 — 3 pageviews2026-06-04 — 13 pageviews2026-06-07 — 11 pageviews2026-06-10 — 11 pageviews2026-06-13 — 7 pageviews2026-06-16 — 5 pageviews2026-06-19 — 13 pageviews2026-06-22 — 9 pageviews2026-06-25 — 13 pageviews2026-06-28 — 18 pageviews2026-07-01 — 9 pageviews2026-07-04 — 21 pageviews2026-07-07 — 23 pageviews2026-07-10 — 20 pageviews2026-07-13 — 13 pageviews2026-07-16 — 12 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-22 — 19 pageviews2026-07-25 — 6 pageviews2026-07-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-31 — 14 pageviews2026-08-03 — 9 pageviews2026-08-06 — 10 pageviews2026-08-09 — 15 pageviews2026-08-12 — 10 pageviews2026-08-15 — 7 pageviews2026-08-18 — 13 pageviews2026-08-21 — 11 pageviews2026-08-24 — 14 pageviews2026-08-27 — 12 pageviews2026-08-29 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
80.2%
earned "Finished the game?"
12%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,4435%14
PS4 (PlayStation)4548%13

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

Player tags

IndieActionComedyPuzzleSatireStrategyAdventureSimulationStory RichExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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