- Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
- Release Date: Sep 4, 2025
- Also On: Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
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Sep 8, 2025Indiana Jones and The Order of Giants doesn’t quite rise to the incredible heights of the original game’s story, but what’s here is more of what I wanted. More incredible locations, puzzles and maze-like tombs, dripping with atmosphere and history. What more could a budding archaeologist ask for?
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Sep 5, 2025Great DLC with largely the same quality as last years’ best game, featuring great attention to detail and some stunning environments. Its only major flaw is that Machine Games somehow had to fit it into the Great Circle.
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Sep 11, 2025If the main adventure with your favorite action archaeologist wasn't enough for you, spend a few more hours with him and uncover one more unsolved mystery. It's a pleasant time spent, but the DLC doesn't bring anything that we didn't already see in the original game.
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Sep 9, 2025The Order of Giants is a focused expansion that trades sweeping vistas for the claustrophobic tension of Rome’s catacombs. It doesn’t reinvent MachineGames’ formula, but refines it with dense atmosphere, solid environmental storytelling, and a compact narrative arc. Not flawless, yet it captures the spirit of Indiana Jones with respect and consistency.
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Sep 30, 2025The Order of Giants is literally an old-school DLC in the truest sense of the word. Instead of adding a new region or new mechanics to the game, it simply offers more of the same. One can't help but wish they had gone the expansion pack route rather than the classic DLC route. Because a fantastic game like The Great Circle deserves more than this.
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Sep 16, 2025There'd be nothing wrong with the “more of the same” approach of this DLC, if only the story didn't feel so incomplete.
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Sep 16, 2025The Order of Giants adds a pinch to the base game’s story without significantly changing its meaning. You’ll explore new corners of Rome, though most of the time you’ll be wandering underground and through interiors. The fact that it can be finished in under four hours and doesn’t really offer anything new is its main drawback. Still, the fresh puzzles and well-made story animations help make up for the short playtime.
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Sep 11, 2025Atmospheric story expansion set in Rome, which only tells a short subplot and offers little new apart from a few puzzles.
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Sep 9, 2025Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants can be whipped through in a single afternoon, but during that short run it takes you through a beautiful array of new locations to explore and presents several puzzles that are even better than those in The Great Circle itself. It probably would’ve been better value as a more replayable, separate mode rather than stitched into the main story but, in an environment where some of my favourite single-player games are being bastardised into games-as-a-service hellscapes, I can’t say I’m against anything that extends my time with a lavishly crafted solo adventure like 2024’s Indiana Jones, even if it’s only by another four or five hours.
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Sep 8, 2025What it may lack in scope, The Order of Giants makes up for with some of the best and most inventive puzzles in the game. It's disappointing that we didn't get another expansive environment to explore, but this is still an engaging mini-adventure that's rich in lore and quintessentially Indy. Those playing The Great Circle for the first time might appreciate the detour a lot more, but putting on that wide-brimmed fedora again still feels great (if only I could get John Williams' theme music out of my head).
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Sep 15, 2025If I’d bought Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s Premium Edition at launch solely for the eventual DLC, I’d be sorely disappointed. If you’re on the fence about The Order of Giants now, then just stay away. It’s a nice extra story to have, but unless you’re one of the Great Circle’s strongest soldiers, there’s no need to play The Order of Giants — especially for the high asking price. It’s more Indy, but not more of what made Indy great.
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Sep 12, 2025The Order of the Giants is a painfully missed opportunity. A DLC that is undoubtedly well put together, consistent with the style and tone of Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle — at times even daring, with a darker, more unsettling atmosphere — but one that suffers from a very short lifespan and a chronic lack of truly memorable moments. The new puzzles are enjoyable and well designed, the new areas are excellently crafted (though many are unfortunately underground and thus feel rather closed-in), and there’s even a solid final battle, but it’s all over in just a few hours. And MachineGames is asking €20 for it. Perhaps a bit too much for so little. Hopefully, a second DLC will come along that can elevate and build upon this first attempt.