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South of the Circle is a deep narrative experience of the emerging relationship between Peter and Clara, Cambridge academics involved in a political conflict. The story focuses on promises made in between career and true love, where our choices burdened by our past seem to be illusory.

South of the Circle is a adventure, interactive fiction and story rich game developed by State of Play and published by 11 bit studios.
Released on August 03rd 2022 is available only on Windows in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 1,363 reviews of which 1,148 were positive and 215 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified South of the Circle into these genres:

Adventure Interactive Fiction Story Rich Cinematic Drama Visual Novel Atmospheric Singleplayer Stylized Cold War Minimalist Emotional Narration Linear Romance Soundtrack Point & Click Walking Simulator Narrative Short

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: 64-bit Windows 7
Processor: 2.8 GHz Dual Core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 660, Radeon R7 370 or equivalent with 2 GB of video RAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 3 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

User reviews & Ratings

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Aug. 2025

I love interactive story games like this. I wish I could forget the story and experience it all over again and again.

Aug. 2025

Being set in Antarctica attracted me to this game, and my perspective is possibly an unusual one as my job is Antarctica, I have spent time on the cold continent for work, I've lived and experienced that extreme environment and appreciate that someone actually put it into a game and portrayed it well. That is rare. I found this game to be captivating (I had completed it on iOS) and it really resonated with me in the way they portrayed the cold, the ice, the experience. I wasn't expecting the alternating narrative but genuinely appreciated it, I really enjoyed the storytelling here. The voice acting is great, I like the graphical style and the mocap works well. The delivery of the game is good, with the gameplay factor maybe lacking a little, but as an interactive story it is top notch. I think on steam it may be a little overpriced, at least in Australia, though I understand the production quality is high. I do recommend this game, enough that I bought it for both Steam and iOS.

June 2025

South of the Circle is a 3 hour long playable novel/movie, Something different, it’s set in before the cold war and during the cold war in the Antarctic, The story is being told in sequences that jump around in time back and forth. What I really disliked is that you can’t disable the Film Grain. I noticed a heavy film grain effect on my screen. I'm disappointed but I understand why they want to make it that way permanent. So, I just played it on my handheld instead. Choices in the game are pointless. Gameplay is very basic. A simplistic art style. Runs great on any device, no matter how low or high spec your PC is.

May 2025

Thoroughly enjoyable story. This turned out longer than expected whoops It explores a lot of cool themes from that time period, such as the hysteria around the cold war turning hot, and ultimately into thermonuclear war. It explores a lot of the underlying fear at the time, especially from the western perspective how the Soviet at the time was this evil entity that meant to harm, and all people from the USSR were all under this umbrella of spies, or individuals wishing for the end of western civilisation and its way of life. It also explores the themes of survival, obvs the guy is stuck in antarctica, but more interestingly it covers how in high stress situations and near death experiences we think of our best (and worst) memories, of the people we love and how we've wronged them over the years. It also looks at how we sacrifice our work life, or our personal life, in this story it is one or the other, which is the sad truth for many people, it explores our selfishness, our need for achievement and progress in some measurable way. The last thing I can think of is how this game, albeit more of a story telling method than a game *I'm all for it*, explores women's place in the world at the time. Women have rights, but that was a fairly recent thing at the time the story is set, maybe 20-ish years ago in the UK, and at the time many women were still exploring what they could do in the world with these new rights, like to vote or the right to an education. Of course there was still plenty of misogyny and sexism at the time which just made this progress even more difficult.

Sept. 2024

First of all, I know it sounds unhinged, but you don't play this game for the gameplay, that is pretty basic and unremarkable. You click and hold circles, and you move around, don't get it if you don't like narrative games. This is a game you play for its story, and it's definitely worth it. You're following the same character in two different times in his life, alternating between scenes almost seamlessly. The different timelines have very different moods and settings and you don't have time to get "tired" of it before you switch to the other. They do join at the end too. Visuals are good, great voice acting, nice music, can be completed in about 3-4 hours with all achievements too. Yes, the ending is a bit odd, but if you give it some thought, it makes sense. Anyway, worth it!

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Frequently Asked Questions

South of the Circle is currently priced at 12.99€ on Steam.

South of the Circle is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.99€ on Steam.

South of the Circle received 1,148 positive votes out of a total of 1,363 achieving a rating of 8.03.

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South of the Circle was developed by State of Play and published by 11 bit studios.

South of the Circle is playable and fully supported on Windows.

South of the Circle is not playable on MacOS.

South of the Circle is not playable on Linux.

South of the Circle is a single-player game.

There are 3 DLCs available for South of the Circle. Explore additional content available for South of the Circle on Steam.

South of the Circle does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

South of the Circle does not support Steam Remote Play.

South of the Circle is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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