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Game development continues to change in an industry that embraces new technologies and ways to innovate the storytelling experience for players. Whether it’s indie or big-budget blockbuster titles, ...

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Here’s the shtick: You assume the role of a fairly advanced, high-level robot (in this world, they’re referred to as “teks”) stationed on the subsurface circular, an underground transportation network ...

Subsurface Circular comes from well-known game developer Mike Bithell. You might remember Bithell from games such as Thomas Was Alone and Volume. Those titles were great in their own respective right ...

You'll take on the role of a robot named Tek when you start off the game. From there, it's a little tough to deduce exactly how things are going to play out, understandably so. But that's part of what ...

Sneaky Mike Bithell, of Thomas Was Alone and Volume fame, has announced and simultaneously released Subsurface Circular today. It's a brief text adventure that puts you in the metal shoes of a robot ...

Mike Bithell's Subsurface Circular on Nintendo Switch is unmistakably the definitive edition of the endearing, bite-sized techno adventure game. Mike Bithell's indie darling Subsurface Circular is ...

Bithell Games announced today that their text-based sci-fi adventure game Subsurface Circular will be coming to the Nintendo Switch on March 1st. If you're not familiar with the game, you're basically ...

Indie title Subsurface Circular will be making its console debut on Nintendo Switch next month, developer Mike Bithell announced today. To put it more precisely, the game will launch in just two weeks ...

Mike Bithell released a surprise new game today. This happy event is notable because Bithell’s previous work includes the inventive platformer Thomas Was Alone as well as Volume, one of the best ...

Subsurface Circular was intended as a small project to keep Mike Bithell and his team busy while the planning and negotiation stages played out for their next big game. It was to be short – the kind ...