Circulate Game Review | Pinball With A Twist

I was asked by Slave Circus Entertainment to review one of their causal games, Cirulate. Developed by PIEYE Games. What the heck, I thought! I am a sucker for free games.

Circulate is a very small download, totaling at about 7.6 megabytes. But don’t let it’s small size fool you because it has real potential. After installing the game, I was dazzled by it’s colorful menus and large(ish) icons and text. And that’s when it hit me – this game is seriously not for the hardcore – but your kiddies will just love it.

The mechanics are very simple to learn but difficult to let go of once you start playing, a great quality for today’s causal games. The concept is simple but well executed. You have a bunch of colored balls scattered about the screen. Your objective often varies from sorting them into color coded groups to throwing them into black holes. But there are obstacles along the way. You swirl and rotate the screen with your arrow keys until the balls roll along and everything is sorted out.

There are about 120 levels to keep you absorbed and leaderboards are in place to track the highest scoring players. Circulate is definitely for the casual gamer looking for a change from all the dearth of pick-up-and-play titles out there. But, as I’ve said before, it won’t hold your interest for too long.

Here’s Circulate at a glance: