Games
The Great Circle
[PLACEHOLDER]Survive in an African wildlife reserve as one of its animals or as one of the people who share it. Every choice you make affects your animal and the world around it. In development for Windows and coming soon to Steam.
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Features
[PLACEHOLDER]Drawn from the Steam page and recent devlogs. Items marked “planned” are not in the current build yet. [TJ: confirm this list against the current build.]
- [PLACEHOLDER]Play as an animal or a human in a large, open African wildlife reserve with savanna, grassland, wetland, jungle, mountain, and desert regions.
- [PLACEHOLDER]Every animal has its own name, personality, and stats, and remembers other animals and players by scent.
- [PLACEHOLDER]Family groups and herds, nesting and territory, mating and live births, and migrations driven by how livable each area is.
- [PLACEHOLDER]Weather, natural disasters, and climate change shift where animals can survive.
- [PLACEHOLDER]Every sound in the world comes from a creature you can track down.
- [PLACEHOLDER]The Grid tracks and simulates tens of thousands of creatures, resources, and events across the map, not only near you.
- [PLACEHOLDER]Story Mode as park ranger Jennifer Maia, caught between the park, local villagers, and a gang of poachers, with multiple endings.
- [PLACEHOLDER]Planned: Documentary Mode for recording your own wildlife films.
- [PLACEHOLDER]Planned: multiple save slots, a permadeath Survival mode, and characters that carry over from single-player into co-op.
Species
[PLACEHOLDER]The Steam page lists more than 85 animal species, among them 20+ birds, 18+ mammals, and 10+ reptiles: meerkats and fennec foxes, lions and elephants, shoebills and black mambas. [TJ: confirm the current count and which species are playable in this build.]
System requirements
[PLACEHOLDER]Windows only, 64-bit. Minimum: Windows 7, quad-core 3.0 GHz CPU, 12 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1050, DirectX 12, 20 GB storage, broadband internet. Recommended: Windows 10, quad-core 3.4 GHz CPU, 32 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1080. The Steam page has the current listing.
Community
[PLACEHOLDER]Join the Discord for news, testing, and help. Back development on Patreon. Follow the public roadmap on Trello. Game support: thegreatcirclegame@gmail.com.