Indiana Jones and the Great Circle really puts you in Indy’s shoes – and it’s better than any Indy game before
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INDIANA Jones and the Great Circle is a brand-new adventure game where you take up the iconic whip and hat for yourself. In many ways, this first-person globe-trotting adventure is a lot like one of the classic Indiana Jones films, as it ticks all the boxes of fun puzzles, strange characters, and grand mysteries.
![[The lack of blood gives a slapstick quality to what would have been some gory fights]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/indiana-jones-great-circle.png)
You’re given free rein to explore regions like Vatican City or dig sites around Cairo that are absolutely full of stuff to discover. While these maps appear small on the surface, they are densely packed with stuff to find. Around every corner, there’s a safe with a code hidden behind a puzzle, or a unique mystery that requires turning statues or pulling the right lever in a bookshelf to uncover treasure.
![[As in any other Indy adventure, you will do a lot of travelling around the globe, to the pyramids in Egypt, Rome, and more]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/indiana-jones-great-circle-egypt-pyramidsjpg.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
It gives you the same thrill of being an explorer as the original Tomb Raider trilogy, where you’re rewarded for digging deeper with more puzzles, which is by far the most enjoyable part of the gameplay. That’s not all there is to it, though, as there is a fair amount of stealth action.
You can get around most areas of a map with the right disguises, but occasionally, you’ll need to sneak your way through, grabbing nearby objects to knock out guards and remain undetected. These stealth sections are a lot of fun. The lack of blood means that knocking out a Nazi with a wrench has a fun slapstick quality to it rather than anything too gory.
It looks surprisingly brutal when you smash someone in the face with a sledgehammer, but without gore, it feels cartoony, like that guard is going to wake up in half an hour with a Looney Tunes-style bump on his head, which matches Indy’s tone perfectly.
