It's a familiar sight. Workers on the train, seated across from eachother, on their way to jobs and other tasks. Or it would be familiar in Subsurface Circular, if those workers weren't machines and the train wasn't beneath an futuristic human metropolis. Mike Bithell's surprise release is a sci-fi text adventure, a game of conversations that delve into world building, mysteries, and puzzles.

You're a detective "tek", riding the titular train and engaging in conversations with the machines that sit across from you. Subsurface Circular never leaves those seats and those rotating cast of passengers, but those talks bring the game's future and the disappearances at the core of its story to life with every stop. Each conversation let you learn more about the characters, the in-and-outs of everyday robot life, but more importantly, you'll be able to question passengers, gathering keywords to explore and discover the truth.
Your talks are more than just back-and-forth responses, but also include linguistic puzzles and cryptic clues to decipher, adding some challenge to the more relaxed pacing of the narrative. But overall, Subsurface Circular promises a short and engaging story of life among robots that can be enjoying in a single session.

Subsurface Circular can be purchase for $5.99 on Steam.

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