ActionAdventure
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 90% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 20,985
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (32%); after 20h it's 1 in 15 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The biggest drop-off is between “The Break-In ” (Complete "The Break-In") and “The Stolen Cat Mummy”: from 95% to 61% of starters.
- 90% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 21,083 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 28.8h for positive, 8.9h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (89.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Golden Idol Complete "The Golden Idol". 100%
- The Break-In Complete "The Break-In". 95% −5
- The Stolen Cat Mummy Complete "The Stolen Cat Mummy". Most players quit here 61% −34
- The Idol of Ra Complete "The Idol of Ra". 49% −12
- A Harsh Climb Complete "A Harsh Climb". 48% −1
- Into the Fire Complete "Into the Fire". 48%
- The Blessed Pearl Complete "The Blessed Pearl". 38% −10
- Atonements Complete "Atonements". 36% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (55)
story milestone ending side
- The Golden Idol Complete "The Golden Idol". 100%
- The Break-In Complete "The Break-In". 95%
- Literary Bug Learn an ability from an Adventure book. 73%
- Field Survey Collect 50 Journal notes. 67%
- Ecco! Photograph Ernesto. 65%
- Little Horn Eat a Cornetto. 65%
- The Stolen Cat Mummy Complete "The Stolen Cat Mummy". 61%
- Shutterbug Capture 50 Photographs for your Journal. 55%
- A Savage Discovery Complete "A Savage Discovery" Fieldwork. 53%
- The Right Note Clobber an enemy with a guitar. 53%
- Sanctuary of the Guardians Complete "Sanctuary of the Guardians" Fieldwork. 52%
- Bread is Life Eat an Aish Baladi Bread. 52%
- A Little Tumble Push an enemy off a ledge. 51%
- Bookworm Learn 10 abilities from Adventure books. 50%
- The Idol of Ra Complete "The Idol of Ra". 49%
- Secret of the Queen Mother Complete "Secret of the Queen Mother" Fieldwork. 49%
- The Mad Priest Complete "The Mad Priest" Fieldwork. 49%
- A Harsh Climb Complete "A Harsh Climb". 48%
- Into the Fire Complete "Into the Fire". 48%
- A Nun in Trouble Complete "A Nun in Trouble" Fieldwork. 45%
- Filling in the Blanks Revisit a location. 42%
- Pest Control Hit an enemy with a fly swatter. 42%
- The Blessed Pearl Complete "The Blessed Pearl". 38%
- Your Own Medicine Disarm an enemy with your whip and then use his weapon to knock him out. 37%
- Atonements Complete "Atonements". 36%
- The Kid Who Vanished Complete "The Kid Who Vanished" Fieldwork. 36%
- Path of Junia Photograph all Inscriptions in Vatican City and return to Antonio. 36%
- Celestial Delight Eat a Star Fruit. 35%
- A Study in Fear Complete "A Study in Fear" Fieldwork. 33%
- Lost in the Past Complete "Lost in the Past" Fieldwork. 32%
- Savage Predicament Complete "Savage Predicament" Fieldwork. 29%
- It Belongs in a Museum! Collect all the missing Stelae. 25%
- A Slippery Customer Dodge a power punch. 25%
- Secrets in the Sand Solve all mysteries in Gizeh. 23%
- When in Rome Solve all mysteries in Vatican City. 22%
- Tour de Force Defeat all boxing champions. 16%
- Tuned In Bring all radio frequencies to Gina. 16%
- Beneath the Surface Solve all mysteries in Sukhothai. 15%
- Locked Doors Hide Secrets Get inside Villa Pia 15%
- Gear Head Solve the Cogwheel puzzle in Sukhothai. 13%
- Out of the Vatican Reach Rome 13%
- Chronicler Collect 25 Journal notes in Rome 13%
- Symbol of Initiation Collect a Mithraic Artifact 12%
- The Order of Giants Complete "The Order of the Giants" 11%
- Repatriation Return all Lost Artifacts. 11%
- Offensive Defense Knock out an enemy using only counters. 11%
- Bookman Learn all abilities from Adventure books. 10%
- Shadows out of Time Collect all the Ancient Relics. 9.9%
- Apple of Discord Hit an enemy with an apple. 9.8%
- Pet the Cat Pet the cat at Via Giulia in Rome 9.1%
- Archivist Collect all Journal notes in the game. 6.7%
- Books of Power Learn all abilities from Adventure books in Rome 6.4%
- Depths of the City Solve all mysteries in Rome 4.8%
- The Seven Grades Collect all Mithraic Artifacts 4.4%
- Roman Scholar Collect all Journal notes in Rome 3.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.