Defeated Circles
Template:Infobox Level Defeated Circles is a 2.1/2.2 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration level by Galaxium and many others, and published by GXQ. It was verified by Zoink on 30 May 2025, taking him about 9,000 attempts over five to six days.[1] The level's reception is mostly positive, with players enjoying its decoration, and victors rating the gameplay no less than 7/10. The gameplay itself is more intense in the first half, but stays consistent throughout in the entire level.
Defeated Circles was placed at #17 on the Demonlist, surpassing Sakupen Circles as the hardest rated Nine Circles level at the time.
Gameplay
- 0-16%: Defeated Circles begins with a short cube part featuring a brief, difficult memory section, and some speed changes throughout.
- 17-23%: A difficult ship part with gravity changes and slope timings.
- 23-27%: A short auto cube section and some orb timings.
- 27-30%: A half-speed mini-cube with several frame-perfect double-spike jumps.
- 31-41%: The first drop with a fast wave and size changes.
- 42-44%: Several more difficult mini-cube double-spike jumps.
- 45-54%: Another fast wave with size and gravity changes.
- 55-59%: Several triple-spike jumps back to back.
- 59-70%: Several switches between cube, ship and ball parts with many gravity changes.
- 70-73%: Several mini-cube jumps.
- 74-84%: A very fast dual-wave part with many size and gravity changes, preceding a two-and-a-half-block-space mini-wave spam.
- 84-88%: Several ball timings before a final cube jump.
- 89-100%: The level ends with artwork.
First 10 victors
| Victor # | Player | Date Completed | Total Attempts | Furthest Fail | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verifier | Zoink | 30 May 2025 | ~9,000 | 87% | YouTube |
| 1 | Tazik | 28 September 2025 | ~75,000 | ? | YouTube |
| 2 | Moliklee | 24 October 2025 | ~29,000 | 75% | YouTube |
| 3 | Netermind | 31 October 2025 | ? | ? | YouTube |
| 4 | zThund3r | 10 November 2025 | ? | ? | YouTube |
| 5 | SerVax | 18 November 2025 | ~15,000 | 88% | YouTube |
| 6 | ROZE | 19 November 2025 | ~21,000 | ? | YouTube |
| 7 | wPopoff | 26 November 2025 | 8,291 | 84% | YouTube |
| 8 | weyolll3 | 6 December 2025 | 58,954 | 91% | YouTube |
| 9 | ProudGiraffe311 | 10 March 2026 | 41,528 | 91% | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWfelZOlBVU |
Trivia
- Defeated Circles was rated on 26 September 2025 and placed at #17 on the Demonlist on 26 October 2025, above Kyouki and below Abyss of Darkness.
- This addition pushes Shukketsu into the Extended List and Cobwebs into the Legacy List.
- Defeated Circles is a revision of an old impossible level by the same name created by Muriday and published by Oktavian, which was based on the 'You So Defeated' challenge levels. According to Galaxium, the time this revision took to complete was about two years.
- Defeated Circles has since been dethroned as the hardest Nine Circles level by Subsuming Vortex after its placement at #9 onto the Demonlist on 12 December 2025.
- Defeated Circles has an enjoyment rate of 70.71 on the All Rated Extreme Demons List (AREDL).