_What Surrounds Us_ takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle - it looks like a donut with frosting. You work together with other sentient moving circles, sometimes helping them joyfully meet with others. And you traverse a large map that's composed entirely of, you guessed it, a series of circles. But the circles everywhere aren't just an artistic choice; they underscore the game's themes about working in connection with the environment and the things around us. Despite the trippy design, _What Surrounds Us_ has a familiar format. I kept feeling echoes of _The Legend of Zelda_ as I trekked across three dist … [ The Verge.](