Circle Empires

Buy89%

Very Positive · 4k player reviews · Medium confidence

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Luminous · Strategy · Aug 8, 2018

Player review score
89%
Very Positive
Price
$8.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
82
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
13
Full audio0 of 13
Subtitles0 of 13

Should I buy Circle Empires?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 49 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 20 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Combat: 11 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • 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.

Why players love itThings to know
34% of themes are praise33% are divided33% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
49 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
-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)
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
20 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
-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)
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
11 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
-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)
Characters
Players who bring up Characters mostly praise it.
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
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.

Players love
Gameplay49 reviews
Graphics20 reviews
Combat11 reviews
Characters8 reviews
Divided opinion
Story
86% still recommend
Co-op
83% still recommend
Bugs
50% still recommend
Audio
100% still recommend
Players complain
Difficulty
87% still recommend
Multiplayer
80% still recommend
Interface
75% still recommend
Performance
67% still recommend

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

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$8.99

The lowest we've tracked is $1.79.

8 points recordedtoday · $8.99

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