Quarantine Circular similar games & best alternatives

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Quarantine Circular

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2018

Should you play it?

In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.

What works

  • Thought-provoking narrative
  • Multiple endings and replayability
  • Well-written dialogue and characters
  • Immersive sci-fi setting
  • Affordable price

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Limited character animation
  • Some players find perspective shifts jarring
  • Lack of save points for replay convenience
  • Anticlimactic endings

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition

  • Neo Cab

  • Primordia

  • Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

  • Detroit: Become Human

  • Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins

Less social

Games that feels like Quarantine Circular but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • The Descendant

  • Major\Minor

  • BAD END

  • Static Dread: The Lighthouse

  • Esoteric Ebb

  • Beyond a Steel Sky

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Quarantine Circular but with less survival pressure

  • Subsurface Circular

  • Kujlevka

  • Dreamfall Chapters

  • Chicken Police - Paint it RED!

  • 1000xRESIST

  • Tron: Identity

More violent

Games that feels like Quarantine Circular but with more combat and destruction

  • Sound of Drop - fall into poison -

  • Demonheart

  • Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition

  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Sierra Ops - Space Strategy Visual Novel

  • Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Subsurface Circular

  • Tron: Identity

  • Thomas Was Alone

  • Volume

  • The Solitaire Conspiracy

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Quarantine Circular: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026