Circle Back

Circle Back is an office politics simulator. You are the newest badge at Consolidated Monolith Dynamics, and there are seven rungs between you and the corner office. Nobody is going to move over.

Every week you book your days — the work you'll do, where you'll be seen doing it, who you'll corner in the elevator. Then the week happens to you. A rival takes credit. HR has a folder. The intern CC'd a client. Each scene gives you five ways to respond — Berate, Sympathize, Kiss Up, Scheme, Deflect — and the people you meet remember which one you chose.

Seven colleagues, each keeping score. Dana Voss wants your promotion. Martin Cross wants results by Friday. Gail has seen it all and might, if you earn it, tell you where the secrets are kept. Priya already knows what you did. Their opinion of you is the actual game.

Weekends are yours. Stay in and recover, or go out — the café, a restaurant, the gym, the mall — and run into the office when it thinks nobody is watching.

Three numbers run your life: standing, influence, strain. Climb too fast and everyone notices. Climb too slow and the calendar runs out. Burn out and it's over.

Scenes are written live by an AI game master that knows your history — what you did to whom, and what they said about it. No two careers at CMD are the same. If a scene ever reads wrong, one tap reports it to a human.

• Free to play: fifteen scenes a day, every day.
• No ads, ever.
• A visual-novel presentation: an illustrated cast, typewriter dialogue, an original soundtrack.
• Playable in five seconds. No account needed to start; make one to keep your career.

Dark office comedy. No one gets hurt. Several people get promoted.

Everything you put off is still on the calendar.