By: Bethesda

Genre: Adventure RPG

Release Date: May 12, 2026

Platform used: Nintendo switch 2

Rating: 4.5/5

One thing that rubs Orcus the wrong way is how nintendo is marketing this as a shooter. Orcus the Vile being as pragmatic in combat as any mage cornered without spells to rely on almost immediately tried to shoot a guard upon learning he has a gun. He was greeted by the sound of a blackshirt blowing a rape whistle in the distance and a shout of “Finally some action” and then the blackshirts and their terrible billy clubs descended upon Orcus with their feral mutts like a the hordes of Atilla the Hun himself. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is significantly more intelligent than some common shooter and that specific gameplay instance shows it. Let’s get one thing straight though – the term immersive sim has been thrown around with this game a lot when it was first released. It is not an immersive sim. It is amazingly immersive and even the adventuring and secretive cults in the Vatican makes you want to go out there and do some investigative journalism – but Orcus the Vile would make a poor stand in for John Constantine or the Winchester Brothers – he is too high on the occult pecking order and too weak to his own true name to be of much help versus greater demons. If they haven’t dealt with me yet they will sense my presence from a mile away. Hours of daydreaming orb pondering follows my every venture into this game. The story, the gameplay and the complexity is enough to warrant the return to the game over and over. Orcus recommends turning adventure mode on instead of using guidance regardless of your other difficulty settings – the puzzles are not as hard as you think and if taken as an adventurer simulator, which this essentially is, it punches in the true triple A game market.

Now the bad. On switch there are a few visual glitches as well as some occasional fussiness with the detection in enemies when you are stealthed. Sometimes the control latency feels a little high but that is possibly because how demanding this game must have been to port. But in terms of a port – it is as good as they get. It begs the question why lock this game for PC behind ray tracing when the graphics themselves aren’t even that state of the art compared to other games like the latter era final fantasy visual high art? It locks out a wider audience to this gem of a game.

Orcus the Vile can not recommend this game enough. If you have a switch 2 get it. It is the full console experience on switch 2 at long last. And the game itself if it even reaches a large enough audience (thanks graphics card industry), it may well become a classic of adventure games. For the first time I will introduce a new feature to my reviews, and just for this game’s incredible quality. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gets Orcus the Vile’s Golden Cabalistic Seal of approval. Even if you can’t get the game, support let’s players for the story. Its worth it.