How to Play Circlegame

Complete rules, controls and scoring · September 15, 2026

Circlegame is a free browser survival game with one brutal twist: your own bullets are as deadly as the enemies. Everything happens inside a white circle arena. Your ship is a white triangle, the enemies are red rings, and the circle wall reacts to every impact like water. The goal is simple — survive as many waves as you can and beat your high score.

Controls

• Desktop: move with WASD or the arrow keys, or simply drag with your mouse — your ship follows the pointer.
• Mobile: touch and hold anywhere, then drag — the point where you first touch becomes a virtual joystick, so your thumb never blocks the view.
• Shooting is automatic. Your ship fires one bullet every 2 seconds, always aimed at the exact center of the circle. You never control the aim — you control your position.

The Core Rule: White Bullets and Red Bullets

This is the rule that makes Circlegame different from every other survival shooter:

• A freshly fired bullet is white. White bullets kill enemies (+100 points each).
• If a white bullet misses and hits the circle wall, it bounces back and turns red.
• A red bullet that touches you kills you instantly. There is no health bar — one hit, game over.
• A red bullet that hits the wall again simply vanishes, leaving a ripple.

Enemies and Waves

• Enemies spawn near the wall on the side opposite to you. Before an enemy appears you see a 1-second warning — a small red star-like dot twinkling at the spawn point. Nothing can hurt you during the warning, so use it to reposition.
• Once spawned, an enemy locks its direction toward where you were standing and flies in a straight line, bouncing off the wall like a billiard ball. Enemies never chase you — they only ever travel on predictable straight paths.
• New waves arrive on a timer, and enemies accumulate: if you don't kill them, the arena keeps getting more crowded. Wave 1 is a tutorial wave with a single enemy — the timer pauses until you clear it.

Scoring

Survival Basics

• Watch the red warning dots — they tell you exactly where enemies will enter.
• Stand so that enemies cross the imaginary line between you and the center: that line is your barrel.
• After a miss, the bounced red bullet travels back through the center area. Step away from your own bullet's return path.

Ready to try? The first wave is gentle — one enemy, one lesson in the core rule.