- Gameplay: 49 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 20 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 11 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Difficulty: 47 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Multiplayer: 15 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Interface: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 4k player reviews · updated
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
-Fun, fast, accessible, stripped-down, simple, compact RTS gameplay (Something you can play with next to no effort if you want and enjoy bacterially growing an army but the game is more of a score chase than a campaign and the low-effort, simple and casual style of the game is not for everyone - I love that this option exists)
-Good, clean visuals (Cute sprites with few textures and no faces like cute slender-people. The transitions between biomes can be rather abrubt and the dark swamps have an unpleasant look but ultimately it's cute and compact with lovely circular mountaintop islands - great concept)
-Good music (At least the more cutesy, relaxing tracks that you listen to inbetween the clicking. The more combat orientated music is OK with a military regalia thing going on but the audio is quite nice, the ambient nature and clanging of weapons... if that can be cocophonous)
Circle Empires has a good roster of available units, and the composition of your army largely depends on which resources dominate the map you are playing on.
Theme by theme
Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.
What you get
Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.
Play modes
- Single-player
Controller
Steam lists no controller support.
Store features
- Family Sharing
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
- Steam Leaderboards
- Steam Trading Cards
Platforms
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
Valve device support
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The lowest we've tracked is $1.79.
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