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Game2015
Circuit Breakers
Developer Triverske
Circuit Breakers is a 1998 racing game developed by Supersonic Software and published by Mindscape for the PlayStation. It is the sequel to Supersonic Racers. It was the first (and possibly only) PlayStation title ever to receive expansion packs through Demo discs released with Official UK PlayStation Magazine. A remake for the PlayStation 2 was released in Europe only under the name Circuit Blasters in 2005 by… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
78 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Mar 14, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
51
Mixed
37 positive · 35 negative
95% range 40–63%
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| Steam reviews | 37 | 35 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
6 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
67 of 116 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 78 · most liked firstIf they hit the Circuit Breakers tomorrow then everyone on CNBC has to wear brown paper bags over their faces like it’s a Cleveland Browns game. If they hit it 5 times tomorrow then Jim Cramer has to commit Sepuku on the floor of the NYSE
unlabelledView post →This game was reviewed using a code sent by the developer/publisher. Circuit Breakers is an arcade retro shooter, developed by Triverske, releasing in November 2015. There isn’t really a story to this game, it’s completely focused on the gameplay, as I would expect from an arcade title, so don’t go into this expecting a deep thriller backstory. The gameplay concept is very simple; you pick which character you want to play as at the start of the game, these are based on what weapon you use,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Circuit Breakers is actually* a recruitment tool developed in the 25th century. In the future, rapid advances in Artifical Intelligence will lead to robots declaring humanity "an obsolete by-product of a forgotten age" and also "really disgusting". If left un-checked, this menace will wipe out all that we hold dear. Don't be surprised if some guy named Centauri comes to your house, ranting and raving about your hi-score in a twin-stick shooter. Just be aware that this man will have you enter…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not going to say this game is bad. In fact, it would be ok if the price was lower (no more than 3 euros). PROS: + Up to six players playing together in local coop. + Gameplay similar to Smash-TV (ahhh, nostalgia...). + Easy to play. + Fun for a quick break. CONS: - Very simple: graphics are poor, they lack detail. - Gameplay is not rewarding: you always start from zero. - No online coop. - Analog gamepad sticks work as digital sticks (only 8 possible directions). - Very similar levels.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A pretty stupid basic straightforward twin-stick shooter in futuristic square rooms. A clone of 'Smash TV' (1990) arcade game. What you see on screenshots is totally what you get, no more there. Several characters have to run around and crowd-control abstract evil robots with different gunfire types. Achievements are marked with ticks in an exel-styled table. It's intended to look and feel oldschool and it does, maybe too much, Animation effects look nice, though this along with highscore…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Follow my Curator page, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41363546-Fruit-N-Doggie-Reviews/]Fruit N Doggie Reviews, so you can be updated whenever I post a new review. Overall Rating - Seriously Flawed ★★☆☆☆ First Impressions I'm trying to remember which bundle I got Circuit Breakers (CB) from, but it must have been from a while ago since I can't seem to figure that out. Due to it having local coop available, it was one I had set aside for when I had a friend over, so that would make…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4.0 Update! The most recent update reveals this game is not going to ever improve, and has been abandoned by the devs. None of the deficiencies outlined in my review have been corrected. The Energium system is still broken AF, and the game is completely bland and buggy. Circuit Breakers is a game I watched eagerly, waiting for improvement which never came and never will. Avoid - and do not buy even at heavily reduced price - the game is not good and never will be. 3.0 Update! Saw the new…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A 4-player hidden gem. Circuit Breakers was a great game, notable for its multitap compatibility. Fun fact: It was the first (and possibly the only) PlayStation game to receive expansion packs via demo discs included with the Official UK PlayStation Magazine.
unlabelledView post →My rating for this game: Dumbass Recommended if you got it for free buying your PDP Wired Controller for Xbox Series X® - Arctic White. Edit: JESUCHRIST THE XBOX CONTROLLER IS BAD forreal 2 months of usage and 2 loose buttons xD my ps3 controller has 10 years and its more consistent. ik its not the place to say but DAMN
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty cool game, hard to stop once u start playing it, it's simple with tons of enemies, and i really mean a lot of them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFBY0y9tyX4
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello stranger! You're in the mood for some twinstick some bullethell and you're basically too awesome for casual? Jep, then you have certainly come to the right place as Circuit Breakers is delivering a very decent amount of shmup-loving fun. I really enjoyed being swarmed by a vast amount of humangrinding robots, reminded me a tiny bit of the first Painkiller in terms of "more, more, wtf moooore enemies!" Really refreshing. Hilarious co-op couchplay is guaranteed even though this little gem…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No online co-op.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Circuit Breakers is available... improves a bit.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Way too repetitive. just an arcade mode and time attack mode which both play exactly the same way.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually write reviews for a website, and the guy who runs it, RedHill, gave me the game for review purposes. Thanks to him for the game! I'm not very vocal about this, but I'm actually a big fan of top-down shooters and bullet hell games. That being said, I don't play them very often. That's why I took the opportunity to review this game, to see if it would scratch an itch left untouched for years. After playing for a few hours with friends and myself, I think this game managed to scratch…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A tight little action game that's even more fun with friends! Endlessly replayable with an enormous amount of challenges to complete. Stellar soundtrack and a beautiful retro art style. This game is fun from the get go and never stops as hordes of enemies get bigger and faster, pushing the difficutly to somthing you haven't seen since the NES era. Get ready to shoot some robots with some of the craziest weapons you've ever used!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6 - Celeste, bought it and haven't played it yet, looks great 7 - Chained Together, why did I buy this? 8 - Circuit Breakers, bundle game 9 - Crab Game, everyone played this for a day, never played it 10 - Curse: The Eye of Isis, might have been a bundle game!
unlabelledView post →Inane. I can't remember when I got this, but I do remember I got it for free. If the game itself was currently free, or much cheaper than it currently is, I could maybe recommend it. But as it stands, I can't in good conscience recommend Circuit Breakers at this price. It's a bullet hell where you fight in futuristic environments against evil robots, which sounds fun enough, right? There are two strange design decisions the game makes that sink it for me. The first is the very odd control…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game feels disgustingly incomplete, and boredom is all too quick to settle in when playing for extended periods of time, as you just wait, and wait, and wait for the challenge, grinding away at trying to get everything the game arbitrarily locks away, such as the challenges, or the characters behind their wave-defense mode. The music may as well be royalty free and I would remember it no more. Prepare for such classics as rock tune number whatever as you destroy waves upon waves of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this game at EGX Rezzed and got a physical copy of it right there. Honestly, I love me a good top down shooter and this one is incredibly good! I remember hearing someone compare it to Smash TV and honestly I think thats a great comparison. Controls are responsive, the mechanic of trying to not go crazy with your shots (as the guns work on an energy level system so if you shoot faster than you can collect the energy your power suffers as a result) and its honestly a lot of fun overall.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is probably one of the best games on steam that throws you back into the SNES era of shooters. Not so much gameplay wise as much as graphics wise and sound. Simple and fun. This game is very much like Smash TV (SNES game released 1991) enemies everywhere minus the power ups, but power ups collected through crystals that enemies drop. More you kill the more crystals you get the more powerful your weapon becomes and the more you kill the more enemies appear getting harder and harder…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game would have been awesome with proper mouse support for aiming and shooting and a decent menu..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It broke its own Circuits. I know the studio behind this game personally and I was really looking forward to some fantastic robot destruction. Unfortenately, that's not Circuit Breakers, or at least that's not what Circuit Breakers became. Originally, this was to reach a certain kickstarter funding in order to become the game it had intended to be. Since the kickstarter campaign was a flop, this game took a massive hit, and became only a shell of a good top-down shooter.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Circuit Breakers is such an obscure game with such an underrated soundtrack
unlabelledView post →Довольно простая игра - выбираешь себе в начале игры персонажа (у каждого разное оружие) и просто проводишь геноцид тупых мобов. Если такое интересно - берите.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Smash TV clones like this are accurately fast-paced and brutal, and keeping up with the hordes is always a challenge. This game's main failing is how hard it throttles the player. Essentially, it uses a single resource as both ammo and experience, which means if you shoot your weapon too much it will get weaker. You can do a "bomb" to clear enemies if you get swamped, but this consumes the same energy. Essentially, the harder you have to fight, the weaker you will get, and it's not easy to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's... not good. The menu controls are odd as hell (WASD, E and Q? What?) and the only time you can use the mouse (and ONLY the mouse) is to set controls. After picking a character with E you need to press ENTER to start... cause that makes sense. Ingame then it's not that much fun to play. Doors are on all sides and no advanced warning off spawns, so stay off the sides. Problem is, levels are EXTREMELY small. Pickups are time-limited... but often stacked near explosive crates, so you can't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is nothing like a top scrolling shooter filled with bullets and mayhem. This game has instant classic written all over it. Get it and ENJOY I know I will!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another PS1 trailer for a fun game today with Circuit Breakers. Anyone play this one back in the day? youtu.be/KIw1VFOZ4HA?...
unlabelledView post →Its basically SmashTV with more mechanics that don't really add to entertainment value.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Same button to aim and auto-shoot. That ruins the whole thing straight from the get-go. (obviously it should be a stick to aim and a button to shoot, to actually FEEL like you're shooting and not continuously puking a stream of bullets)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game lies about multi-player and coop, they dont exist, it only has local coop also, linux version doesn't even have newest update
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Twin Stick shooter where you kill robots and every once in a while a boss appears. This game will get old after 10 levels of the same thing. The gimmick to this game is the more energy you collect the bigger your gun gets while at the same time firing costs energy. This isn't a very fun mechanic as a lot of time even if you are collecting energy with your pathetic pick up radius it'll routinely switch back and forth from two different levels of gun. One thing I hate about some twin stick…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't recommend this for anyone on Linux because the controller support is dismal. My controller (a Logitech F310) is recognized but doesn't work at all for this game. I do not think the controller or drivers are the issue since it works in many other games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have to keep the game running a few minutes so that I can put this review. Why is that? The AWSD keys are not working, it cannot let me turn left so I am not even able to finish the tutorial. I posted on the forum but after 1 month & a half without news, I decided to put this negative. I cannot tell anything about the game, only that it has a terrible customer support for lInux.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought the game for myself and my gf just to figure out that multiplayer doesn't work... So, why do you have "Co-op" and "Multi-player" tags again? Put away those tags before you actually implement MP. Edit: MP tags are gone, yet after a month of waiting still no update. #disappointed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Advent day 4! A three is rolled, and a Baileys is poured, but what game will it be? Well, it's PS1 today, and fourth on that shelf is... Circuit Breakers by Supersonic and Mindscape Entertainment! Not a bad little battle racer, and more than a tad reminiscent of Micro Machines and Ignition.
unlabelledView post →I won this game in a giveaway, and I am sad to say I have not enjoyed my time with it. It's not BAD per se, but is marred by so many design flaws and obfuscated information that I cannot recommend it. (Note: I exclusively played single-player. It might be more fun with friends, but better games would also be more fun with friends so why not play those instead?) Retro should not mean clunky. The menu navigation is bizarre, to the point that the only guide to this game on Steam is how to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very simple, basic, generic, and boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Over all a meh top down twin stick shooter Horrible keyboard controls (no mouse) - use a controller Horribly unbalanced weapons. Some are just awful (laser for example). Weapons are rather boring too as the upgrades really arent fun, they just shoot faster and more bullets. Yay! No feeling of being able to pick and chose between different weapon types, you are stuck with what you have the whole game. Having your weapon downgrade by using it is not fun either. There are tons of better games…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great little SmashTV/Robotron clone. My only complaint is that it defaults to your system language. And if you change it to your desired language it shows a mixture of the selected and default language. Other than that i have no problems Would recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Brilliant, very replayable overhead twin-stick arena shooter akin to a turbo-super charged version of Smash TV with much more varied arenas, with some Robotron 2084 and bullet hell shooter DNA mixed in -- hindered a bit by limited controller aiming (8-directions) and clumsy keyboard navigation of menus. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1557070622 High degree of replayability due to its starting set of 5 different characters, each with a specific weapon specialty: machine…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are looking for something similar to SmashTV, a game with hordes of enemies to defeat in a top down view while avoiding projectiles, this is not bad... but for everyone else this game is going to get repetitive FAST. Controls are not really good, the mapping gets a bit akward, also, why are the shooting angles limited to 8 directions like in classic shoot-hem-up games? this is on PC, why not make use of the mouse as aim instead of having to use directional keys? With 4 friends in local…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →really good game to pick up and easy to play. Really puts you back into the old style of shooters. If you need a game that doesn't require a lot of time put into it then this is the game for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Circuit Breakers is a decent twin-stick shooter with some balance issues. Pros + Variety in characters and levels + Pixel graphics + Shooting feels responsive and requires ammo management... which is how I like it in top-down shooters. Cons - Lack of variety later on - Runs require a lot of playtime and the enemies start to feel like bullet sponges, making the game feel repetitive (at least when playing alone) - Hidden characters and no idea how to get them - Grindy achievements -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome! A somewhat spiritual successor to Smash TV, one of my favorite arcades from back in the day. Multiplayer isn't quite ready at the time of this review, however devs seem committed due to their interactivity with the community and their game updates. Once MP is complete, this is going to be a very solid game. Already a must have!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played this game for half an hour and I'm already psyched to play it with my best friend. One of the best couch multiplayer games i've ever played, an original concept, and endless fun. There's no reason not to buy this game, and there's every reason to buy this game. Buy this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall, this is a great game. The controls are amusing, and the indepth setup said controls is commendable. Circuit Breaker's music and retro art sets it apart from the clutter of games with recognizable tunes and indiscernible drawings. Its rooms are delightfully varied and enjoyable, yet successful in not distracting the player from gameplay. The quick pace of the game is what makes it so addicting; being able to run at, run away from, and shoot at the robots in a swift manner creates a rush…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On my first try. I love it already. It is an arena twin stick shooter with good unique additions to the game genre. This is the first twin stick shooter I know that discourages you to wasting shots in a fair mechanism. The bullet mechanism. Every/Most? kills drops you bullets, shooting chests sometimes give you tons of bullets. Earn enough bullets you upgrade your weapon to the higher tier with faster shot rate and possibly damage? Get hit, you downgrade. Keep shooting without getting bullets,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Insanely fun retro style game, great with several players
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stars received: 3.0/10 _ Note: v.6 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions [0.5] Controls & Training & Help [0.2] Menu & Settings [0.4] Sound & Music [0.4] Graphics [0.3] Game Design [0.2] Game Story [0.4] Game Content [0.4] Completion time (level/game)? [0.2] is it Enjoyable & Fun? Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again) BONUS point: Multi-Player related BONUS point: Review for VR - if Registration is required with providing PII [No = Confident] - is it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This might have been fun in 1991. Probably not though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pleasantly surprised! Loads of fun and great controls!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting little game. 2D shooter. Not really a game you will be playing for long but fun for a short while.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're into those Smash TV type of games,you'll dig this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Fun Game! Reminds me alot of smash TV! well worth the buy! AWESOME GAME! should of been more main stream
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i got on and instantly got a game breaking bug where my screen was all over the place and i could not hear anything but aijhga-uvniuawbvapn
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Fast paced twin stick shooter. - Extremely challenging! - Retro sound and visuals, awesome art style and the sprites look fantastic. - Your ammo functions as a power-up for your weapon (how badass is that?) - Four characters to choose from, each with a unique weapon/play style. EDIT: Unlocked a 5th character! - Has online co-op (in beta as of this review). - Endless hordes and challenge modes. - Leaderboards! - The dev's are quick to communicate and worked to resolve my issue promptly!…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best for playing with friends
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Level Down. Level Down. Level Down. This game is not even worth it for free. The gameplay is good but the game design is depressing. Even for free I wouldn't bother with it. I have more fun playing Smash TV or Xenocrisis.
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