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This 2015 action-adventure game offers simulation and strategy elements. It has garnered 1,074 Steam reviews. Publisher and developer attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
The Magic Circle is a 2015 Action game developed by Question and published by Question. On Steam it has gathered 1,502 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Question with publisher Question is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 81,000 to 189,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Magic Circle can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,502
Positive
92%
Steam appid
323380
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
0
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.081K to 189K
units (median: 135K)
≈ $926K to $2.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Magic Circle at roughly 81,000 to 189,000 copies, with a median around 135,000, derived from its 1,502 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
18 observed days · window low $19.99Across 18 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Magic Circle sold?
- indielist estimates The Magic Circle has sold between 81,108 and 189,252 units (median 135,180), derived from its 1,502 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Magic Circle?
- The Magic Circle was developed by Question and published by Question.
- Who published The Magic Circle?
- The Magic Circle was published by Question, developed by Question. See Question's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Magic Circle released?
- The Magic Circle was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does The Magic Circle have on Steam?
- The Magic Circle has 1,502 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is The Magic Circle worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Magic Circle 92% positive across 1,502 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Magic Circle can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Deliver Us The Moon, Outer Wilds, SOMA, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Question's other releases and Question's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Magic Circle sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Magic Circle page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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- D
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- O
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Shared tags: Exploration, Story Rich, Adventure
- S
SOMA
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- A
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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- T
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- V
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Shared tags: First-Person, Singleplayer, Adventure
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