Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Releases December 9 for Xbox Series X|S, PC and Game Pass, in Spring 2025 for PS5 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2024 / 4,653 Views
Publisher Bethesda Softworks and developer MachineGames announced Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will launch for the Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass on December 9.
The publisher also announced the game will launch for the PlayStation 5 in Spring 2025.
View the release date reveal trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them—Indiana Jones. You’ll become the legendary archaeologist in this cinematic action-adventure game from MachineGames, the award-winning studio behind the recent Wolfenstein series, and executive produced by Hall of Fame game designer Todd Howard.
You Are Indiana Jones
Live the adventure as Indy in a thrilling story full of exploration, immersive action, and intriguing puzzles. As the brilliant archaeologist—famed for his keen intellect, cunning resourcefulness, and trademark humor—you will travel the world in a race against enemy forces to discover the secrets to one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
A World of Mystery Awaits
Travel from the halls of Marshall College to the heart of the Vatican, the pyramids of Egypt, the sunken temples of Sukhothai, and beyond. When a break-in in the dead of night ends in a confrontation with a mysterious colossal man, you must set out to discover the world-shattering secret behind the theft of a seemingly unimportant artifact. Forging new alliances and facing familiar enemies, you’ll engage with intriguing characters, use guile and wits to solve ancient riddles, and survive intense set-pieces.
Whip-Cracking Action
Indiana’s trademark whip remains at the heart of his gear and can be used to distract, disarm, and attack enemies. But the whip isn’t just a weapon, it’s Indy’s most valuable tool for navigating the environment. Swing over unsuspecting patrols and scale walls as you make your way through a striking world. Combine stealth infiltration, melee combat, and gunplay to combat the enemy threat and unravel the mystery.
The Spirit of Discovery
Venture through a dynamic mix of linear, narrative-driven gameplay and open-area maps. Indulge your inner explorer and unearth a world of fascinating secrets, deadly traps and fiendish puzzles, where anything could potentially hide the next piece of the mystery—or snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
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Xbox is done as a brand. I love my 360, and the One is fine, but the Series has irreparably damaged the Xbox brand.
Using the PS5 version as the big "one more thing" is embarrassing for them and announcing the release date at the same time really drives home the you don't need the console message. They have definitely given up on console sales that's for sure.
its just wrong
No it's not wrong. Forza and Hellblade 2 sold so badly that it's clear their current approach is not working anymore.
Once we see gamepass revenue drop, then you can worry
Execs don't need a revenue drop to panic. The current stall in new subs is more than enough for management to freak out. It's been two years of no growth.
A version of the game they cancelled that was probably already in the works that is now back in production? I wonder if Disney had anything to do with it, as whatever deal Bethesda had with Disney before MS bought them would have included all the mentioned platforms, minus GP day 1 but probably Epic store.
Perhaps Disney said "No, we want it on what you [Bethesda] said."
I haven't confirmed myself but apparently in the FTC leak it was shown that MS went back to Disney to make this game exclusive on Xbox. So I don't think it was Disney. I just think the contract required a lot of sales or MS to pay money and well things were different back then. They were actually selling consoles.
They have it they just don't want to spend it. On top of the fact that it's kind of clear at this point that MS just doesn't care about the console consumer anymore. The only people they care about keeping around are the ones who don't care about any of this stuff. I think they are ok with everyone else leaving.
Xbox still has exclusives. The money made on Playstation can fund other games, some of which could be exclusive or timed exclusive.
I want more Switch ports personally. Even if its old games.
Really feels like Microsoft is quiet-quitting consoles.
Rather than straight-up discontinuing their hardware business, they've simply stopped trying.
Somebody could explain to me why they HAD TO announce that it is coming to PS5 at THIS EVENT?
I still don’t get why Microsoft is making these games multiplatform. Ok, increased sales, but it still seems counter-inituative when trying to give the Xbox a selling point.
Disney's royalties on their licenses are absolutely absurd. It's a big reason why Sony bundled PS5s with Spider-Man 2 last year at no additional cost. But what's most bizarre is that they announced it on a global stage.......like, Stalker 2 is only exclusive for 3 months and they haven't announced the PS5 version lol. Even if it was announced a month or two after launch made more sense lol.
Really? Because I'm playing Spider-Man on PC lol. Spider-Man 2 will make its way to PC sometime next most likely. Sony can afford to make that kind of transition slower than MS because of the publishers bought and dramatically less consoles they sell compared to the competition. Nothing outside of Nintendo is truly exclusive anymore.
That's not completely true. While PS has released a lot of their games on PC there are still a bunch that haven't. GT7 and Demon Souls. Weirdly not even MLB the show is on PC even though they brought it to Xbox. I think Sony is waiting for Xbox to fail so they no longer have to port it to their system and can keep it in house again.
Yeah but that's really only a matter of time. Sony is still working on porting their older catalog of games. They were barely able to get around to porting Ghost of Tsushima after 4 years. Whether Sony goes further into the PS4 gen is unknown, but I think it's safe to assume all PS5 games along with all games going forward will make it to PC.
MLB is weird for sure though lol. But I'm figuring that's out of Sony's hands.
I agree with your overall sentiment in that PC seems to be a recurrent platform for Sony nowadays but you're overstating it with the "nothing is true exclusive outside Nintendo". Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, The Last Guardian or Shadow of the Colossus have ever been released outside a Sony platform and one of those is almost 10 years old already.
Lol yeah I totally get what you meant man. It sucks and is unfortunately what Satya Nadella wants. He made it clear in the ABK FTC hearings that he has no love for console exclusivity and when the deal went through, it brought a huge magnifying glass over the Xbox division. Something that used to be an afterthought within MS as a whole. Next-gen Xbox hardware is looking more like a glorified PC. Similar to what Valve attempted with Steam Machines a decade ago. Is that the right call? Not to console purists, but with the amount of money MS has now invested in Xbox, they want their returns now rather than later.
They clearly don't care about giving Xbox a selling point anymore, how much more obvious can they make it
You still don't unmderstand that gamepass is their priority. They want people to see the value of owning gamepass as a serice.
They want people who own an xbox to see the value of paying a subscription fee monthly rather than paying more for games yearly. And they want word of mouth to spread over. Far less people are buying systems solely for game exclusivity. So leaving a game like indianna jones only on xbox systems makes no sense. And it is a timed exclusive. Those few diehard fans who have to make the switch to xbox just to pkay the game dayone , is a tiny minority.
Game looks great! That CE looks tempting too lol but damn has MS leadership continued to make additional irreparable harm to the Xbox brand. Did we all know Indy would go multiplat? Yes. But did we expect that to be announced months before the game even launches so Xbox could at least reap some of the benefits of timed exclusivity? Definitley not. Should've just made the game launch on PS5 day and date like Doom: The Dark Ages is.
What big punch in the gut for Xbox fans haha
Gives me 3 to 6 months to find out if the game is for me or not.
