Broken Circle is a strange game for me. Actually, it should hit exactly my nerve: a deep, emotional story paired with hopefully good gameplay. And basically I got this, some dialogues between Circle and the other characters are really great.

Unfortunately, the gameplay is far too simple in places. It does a good job of emphasizing the budding relationship between the two characters, but gave me little to do gameplay-wise. At the same time, I find some narrative elements not very coherent or carried by poor pacing. The metaphors and themes that are really simmering beneath the surface are only scratched at times. The fact that the game then ends so abruptly in this way was nauseating to me.

It almost seems as if the game wants to withhold a lot of its good content from me because time was lacking during development. A lot of potential and I also my share of fun, but after the credits I started to feel losing all my positive vibes towards it.