11 things you need to know about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a single-player first-person action-adventure game currently under development by Swedish game developer MachineGames. It will be co-published by LucasFilm Games and Bethesda Softworks, with famous game designer Todd Howard in the role of executive producer.

1. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle features an original story Indiana Jones and the Great Circle features an original story set in 1937. Many people, including archaeologist Indiana Jones and his companion Gina, are searching the planet for an ancient power related to the Great Circle.

3. What’s the Great Circle everyone’s after?
“The Great Circle is a strange alignment of ancient sites around the globe, and a set of mysterious artifacts connect to it”, explains game director Jerk Gustafsson in an Xbox Wire post.

4. Troy Baker is the voice of Indiana Jones
Renowned voice actor Troy Baker, who’s voiced characters like Batman, Hawkeye, Joel Miller from The Last of Us, Gondorian ranger Talion in the Middle-earth games by Monolith Productions and more has voiced Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones for the game.

5. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The timeline
The story of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set between the events of the films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade (1989).

6. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The bad guys
Colonel Viktor Gantz is one of the main bad guys in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. You'll have to deal with Nazi troops.

7. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The places you’ll visit
From Marshall College, your journey as Indiana Jones will take you to locations like Vatican City, Egypt, the sunken temples of Sukhothai in Thailand, Calcutta, Guwahati and even the Himalayas.

8. Indiana Jones will carry his trademark whip
As Indiana Jones, you will carry his trademark whip in the game. You can use the whip to “distract, disarm and attack enemies”.

9. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Gameplay elements
The gameplay in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is narrative-driven and involves stealth, melee combat, use of guns and Indiana Jones’ trademark whip. You’ll also have to solve riddles and survive “intense set pieces”, so be ready for some quick and correct thinking.

10. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Platforms
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will launch on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam and the Microsoft Windows Store). It will also come to Xbox Game Pass.

11. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Release date
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set to launch in 2024 but there is no confirmed release date yet.