Shacknews Top 24 Games of the Year 2024

#7 Game of the Year 2024 - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

It’s been a long time since an original Indiana Jones game graced our video game consoles and computers. It’s a franchise that perfectly captures the sense of action and adventure. There’s nothing quite like putting on Indy’s hat, cracking a whip at Nazis, and exploring lost ruins for artifacts that belong in a museum. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle manages to not only be a stellar video game experience, it actually feels like it could be a real Indiana Jones film.

Right off the bat, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle lets you know exactly what you’re in for. You’re walking through a dense forest in first-person, investigating abandoned campsites and discovering poison-tipped darts in trees. From here, you’re inside a tomb, avoiding traps and snaking your way across pressure-activated tiles. And, with careful pressing of the thumbsticks, you’re swapping a golden idol for a bag of sand. That’s right, it’s a near shot-for-shot recreation of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

From here, the game is a whirlwind of action and adventure. You’re using Indy’s whip to crack Nazis or smashing their heads with all sorts of objects, solving puzzles and climbing through ruins, and of course, being a bit of a wiseass and getting into all sorts of trouble.

The team at MachineGames has delivered the best Indian Jones video game in a long time. You can read more about how much we loved it in TJ Denzer’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is available on Xbox and Steam platforms. The game will be launching on PS5 next year.

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