Indiana Jones and the Great Circle developer MachineGames has revealed that opting for a first-person perspective for the action-adventure title was ‘a given’ for the start.
Jens Andersson, who serves as designer director for the studio, revealed during a chat at Develop: Brighton this week that first-person “was a given for us,” and that “there was no choice for us, we love that perspective. It’s a great way of telling stories.”
If you’re going to be Indiana Jones, you need to look through his eyes, you need to feel like him. How would we make you as a first-person player feel like Indiana Jones? We knew that would be really hard, but actually it was one of the things that we felt we hit,” says Andersson. “It took years, of course, but it wasn’t the hardest part making this game. It was a lot of the other things that I would highlight as ‘we didn’t get this right until at the very end.’
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was originally released for the PC and Xbox Series X/S in December 2024, and arrived on P5 in April 2025. You can read our full review here. MachineGames announced last month that the game’s Order of Giants expansion is coming to the PS5 in September.
Set in 1937 between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle sees the whip-wielding archaeologist attempting to multiple groups from harassing the a mysterious power linked to the Great Circle, which references sites around the world that form a perfect circle when together on a map. Players will travel to a number of real-world locations, including the Vatican City, Thailand, Egypt and China.
[Source – GamesRadar]