Circut's Edge cover art

Game

Circut's Edge

1990 · DOS · Role-playing (RPG)

About this game

Circut's Edge is a 1990 interactive roleplaying game where you play as detective Marîd Audran in a city sector called "The Budayeen", that is set in the Middle East and based on New Orleans.

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.

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Game facts

Release date

Dec 31, 1990

Developer

Westwood Studios

Publisher

Infocom

Platforms

DOS

Genres

Role-playing (RPG)

Themes

Science fiction, Mystery

Game modes

Single player

Perspective

First person, Text

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Game data and artwork via IGDB.

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