Circuit's Edge
Circuit's Edge is a computer game developed by Westwood Associates and released by Infocom in 1989. It is based on George Alec Effinger's 1987 novel When Gravity Fails. The game is a hybrid interactive…
1 July 1990
Circuit's Edge is an adventure developed by Westwood Associates, released 1 July 1990 on DOS.
What Circuit's Edge is
Circuit's Edge is an adventure game developed by Westwood Associates and released in 1990. It was published by Infocom. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player assumes the role of Marîd Audran, a private detective. The game is set in "The Budayeen", an entertainment/criminal quarter in an unnamed city somewhere in the Middle East that is based on New Orleans. While running a series of errands/"business deals" for "Saied the Half-Hajj", a friend of Marîd's, Marîd is framed for the murder of a man named Kenji Carter. Although Marîd's influential patron Friedlander Bey clears him with the local police, Bey asks him to look into Carter's death. Doing so leads Marîd deep into the criminal underworld of the Budayeen.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
Circuit's Edge — frequently asked questions
When did Circuit's Edge come out?
Circuit's Edge was released on 1 July 1990 for DOS.
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