Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Fair · Action · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 7 sales

Fair at $69.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour▼
$4.32/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 21,087
Critics
87 players 3 higher
Genre rank
Top 11% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 62% off ($26.88) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $26.88 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
16.2h
To 100%
39.4h 2.4x the story
Achievements
55

Price and sales

Sales
12 on record
Typical cut
20% off
Steam low
$41.99 June 2026
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $37.79 at Fanaticalall-time low $35.69 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
324 now
Recent reviews
86% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

89% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 12 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 11 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moss VR ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats MADiSON ($34.99, scores 47).

More about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

21 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 728 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

16.2 hours to finish it, 39 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 23 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Cost per hour$4.32/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds21 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Pros: My overall experience with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has been great. The story immediately pulled me in, and the gameplay mechanics are genuinely fun. The graphics are also fantastic and do a great job of bringing the world of Indiana Jones to life. The achievement system is also fairly easy to get into. There are some challenging ones along the way, but overall, they feel achievable without being...
MegronixRecommendedafter 58h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle nails the atmosphere and puzzle design, but the pacing grinds to an absolute halt mid-campaign. The gameplay loop gets repetitive quickly, but the real dealbreaker is the artificial padding. At a certain point, main story progression is hard-gated behind a checklist of tedious, mandatory side content. Forcing players to grind through filler instead of letting them focus on the...
macjabethNot recommendedafter 13h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in a first-person, single-player adventure. 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™.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB or AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB or Intel Arc A580, 120 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2677660/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+3
Critics87
Players90
Metacritic critics · 21,087 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperMachineGames
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreAction
Released2024
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements55