{"id":2287,"date":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/what-surrounds-us-will-make-you-think-a-lot-about-circles\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","slug":"what-surrounds-us-will-make-you-think-a-lot-about-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/what-surrounds-us-will-make-you-think-a-lot-about-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/ss_765cecb6ce4a937c4f17d94cc6729212ecb56fa8.1920x1080.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What Surrounds Us<\/em> takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle &#8211; it looks like a donut with frosting. You work together with other sentient moving circles, sometimes helping them joyfully meet with others. And you traverse a large map that&#8217;s composed entirely of, you guessed it, a series of circles. But the circles everywhere aren&#8217;t just an artistic choice; they underscore the game&#8217;s themes about working in connection with the environment and the things around us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the trippy design, <em>What Surrounds Us<\/em> has a familiar format. I kept feeling echoes of <em>The Legend of Zelda<\/em> as I trekked across three dist \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/961183\/what-surrounds-us-review-pc-steam\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle &#8211; it looks like a donut with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}