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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a first-person action-adventure game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks, released for Windows and Xbox Series X|S in December 2024 and for PlayStation 5 in April 2025. Set in 1937, between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, the story begins when a giant intruder steals a cat mummy from the Marshall College collection and leaves archaeologist Indiana Jones chasing a conspiracy across the Vatican, Egypt, the Himalayas, Siam and Iraq. The campaign is built around exploration, stealth, disguise and environmental puzzle solving rather than constant gunplay, with a whip and fists as the default tools and firearms treated as a scarce, loud last resort. Experience is spent through Adventure Points on books and manuals that unlock combat, athletic and survival abilities, while each major region works as a semi-open hub full of side mysteries, field notes and collectibles. The game's title refers to the Great Circle, a ring of ancient sites whose alignment ties into the game's central myth of the Order of Giants.

• Disguise and Social Stealth - Most enemy-held areas can be entered by taking the uniform of a guard faction, which turns hostile patrols into a line of sight puzzle where suspicious behaviour, running and carrying a weapon give Indy away.
• Adventure Points and Manuals - Combat, athletic and survival abilities are unlocked by spending Adventure Points at books and manuals found in the world, so progression rewards exploration and side content instead of a level-up bar.
• Whip-Driven Traversal - The bullwhip doubles as a tool and a weapon, letting Indy swing across gaps, pull distant objects, disarm enemies and open a path through vertical level design.
• Puzzle-First Level Design - The campaign's set pieces are environmental puzzles built from ancient mechanisms, matching symbols and hidden passages, and each major region hides optional mysteries with their own riddles.
• Semi-Open Regional Hubs - The Vatican, Giza, the Himalayas, Sukhothai and Iraq function as hubs with a main thread, side quests, vendors, restricted zones and collectibles, and the player can move between them as the story progresses.
• Loud Versus Quiet Combat - Fists, improvised weapons and the whip keep fights quiet, while the revolver and picked-up enemy firearms solve a fight fast at the cost of drawing every guard in the area, which keeps the stealth and combat systems interlocked.