What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles
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What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle - it looks like a donut with frosting. You work together with other sentient moving circles, sometimes helping them joyfully meet with others. And you traverse a large map that's composed entirely of, you guessed it, a se
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What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle - it looks like a donut with frosting.
You work together with other sentient moving circles, sometimes helping them joyfully meet with others. And you traverse a large map that's composed entirely of, you guessed it, a series of circles.
But the circles everywhere aren't just an artistic choice; they underscore the game's themes about working in connection with the environment and the things around us. Despite the trippy design, What Surrounds Us has a familiar format.
I kept feeling echoes of The Legend of Zelda as I trekked across three dist … Read the full story at The Verge.
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