A clown, a bomb, a Paris cafe: 1996 knew how to open an investigation.

On gut choice, Circle of Blood edges past a little over a third of games. Modest, and the breakdown digs deeper. Controller feel collapses to the floor, ahead of just 1% of titles, and on the desert island question it lands dead last. Fun barely does better. But two lines hold: attachment sits just under the middle of the pack, and above all the wish to experience it fresh again climbs ahead of 64% of games. That's the tension: this isn't a game you replay, it's a game whose ending you regret knowing. Few votes so far, so treat it as a first signal.

No surprise for a point-and-click. The genre runs on writing, puzzles and a sense of elsewhere, not on the feel of play. Asking it for controller pleasure is judging a novel by its binding. Today's criteria, built around motion and loops, simply don't speak its language.

So who is it for? For you if you like talkative investigations, sharp dialogue and historical mysteries you take apart clue by clue. Much less so if you want to feel something in your hands.