What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle - 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's composed entirely of, you guessed it, a series of circles. But the circles everywhere aren't just an artistic choice; they underscore the game's themes about working in connection with the environment and the things around us. Despite the trippy design, What Surrounds Us has a familiar format.

I kept feeling echoes of The Legend of Zelda as I trekked across three dist … Read the full story at The Verge.