Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Game
Game2014
Appointment with FEAR (Standalone)
Developer Tin Man Games
YOU are Titan City's resident superhero in this interactive graphic novel! Fight crime and solve clues to discover FEAR's fiendish plot! From the Steam store page
88 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Sep 26, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
58
Mixed
51 positive · 37 negative
95% range 48–68%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
64 of 111 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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60 of 88 · most liked firstedited for clarity ... I own a lot of FF books, loved them since I was a kid. As soon as I saw this on Steam, I threw money at it. Was I disappointed? Yes. The graphics are really nice, well-done comic style that really fits the theme of the game. The name generator and much of the text is anywhere between amusing and downright hilarious. Gameplay is set over the course of several days, giving you a chance to stop (or ignore) different crimes, explore different locations, and make a lot of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stop! This game has nothing to do with the horror/semi-action series F.E.A.R., it's an adaptation of an old Steve Jackson book. Got that?! Everyone ok with that? Good, moving on. This game is awesome! Steve Jackson's CYOA books have a strong positive reputation, so I won't focus this on the base material. I'll focus my commentry on the adaptation. Tin Man Games have stayed faithful to the original material, focusing on using the format of the VN to enhance the experience. Sound and music…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is text based adventure where you choose your own path that determines the kind of ending you'll get. The main antagonist in this game is called F.E.A.R. (the Federation of European American Rebels) led by Vladimir Utoshiki a.k.a. "Titanium Cyborg". The other leaders of the evil organization, who are set on conquering the world, are having a meeting and it is up to you to stop them. You have three (3) short days to search for clues to discover the exact place and time it's gonna…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I Have Nothing to Fear Except F.E.A.R. Itself… It’s not secret that I adore Fighting Fantasy game books - I reviewed the recently released iOS app of House of Hell a while back http://maturegamerpodcast.com/bouncybhall-spends-a-night-in-the-house-of-hell/ - but what many folk don’t realise is that the beloved Fighting Fantasy series wasn’t simply full of books based in a fantastical realm of dragons and demons. With books such as Space Assassin and The Rings of Kether providing a sci-fi…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Now that visual novels are quickly becoming the next big thing on Steam it’s getting harder to find out which ones are worth the money and time, and which ones aren’t. Appointment With FEAR might not reinvent the genre but it does its best to give you a unique experience nevertheless. I can be very short about Appointment With FEAR. It’s a challenging, but fun interactive graphic novel where you make important choices and battle enemies, graphic novel-style. In other words, you fight crime, to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rating: mediocre (5/10) Introduction Appointment with FEAR is a stylish comic adventure, where you pick the hero you want to be and choose which crimes to fight in the city. You progress in the game automatically, but you have some choice that will have impact on further progress and results in the game. Gameplay & Story: 4/10 The story is a simple comic book one - you are the hero of the city that has to save it from the villains. At the start of the game you get to know, that you have 3…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an old school Choose Your Own Adventure book. People may mistake this to a VN not but always present backstep and mutliple interlinked Story/Clue Choices are the difference between this and a Visual novel. You are a produced super human that have 1 of the 4 power choice that's given to you. Strength/flight, Mind power, super smart or laser blasting hands. Each offer diferent plot lines and story choices. For a book it's got many different clues and crime to solve. The vast amount of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent effort with fun writing, but winning is so dependent on locating a couple of specific clues each playthrough that you quickly realize the rest of the gameplay is just filler to madly scroll through. If you must, try the Sorcery! series. It's the best of these.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As with most Tin Man games Fighting Fantasy book adaptations, this one is very faithful to the original gamebook. With it's tongue planted firmly in it's cheek (ala 1960's Batman) you play a hero trying to track down the evil mastermind behind F.E.A.R. while meeting people who are nothing at all like Marvel and DC characters along the way. Good, kitchy fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Appointment With F.E.A.R. is a -very- slick videogame adaptation of a classic 1985 Figthing Fantasy gamebook. For those who don't remember Fighting Fantasy, they were a series of excellent choose-your-own-adventure books with a roleplaying bent. Most of them featured warlocks and demons, so the superhero-themed Appointment With F.E.A.R. really stood out as a unique part of the series. You begin the game by choosing your hero's superpower, look, and name. There aren't a huge number of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was looking for a less linear story. Different missions are given, however, only one path won't end in game over. Short and not very funny dialogue. Didn't really relate to my character (or any character), which is sad because that's what I look for when I'm customizing my own character. The art is good and so is the music, but not worth $10 or the time I spent trying to guess that perfect sequence of events that the game wanted me to follow so that I could end the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot classify this as anything beyond "lazy and clumsy". I too grew up with Fighting Fantasy books and I still own some 20+ titles. I practically learned how to read with The Warlock of the Firetop Mountain, Cretan Chronicles shaped my passion for ancient greek history and even the "advanced" titles found a way into my heart (Dungeoneer, Titan, Out of The Pit, etc). This means that this title should have had a lot of nostalgic valor to me, right? Well, that's what I thought. It is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7.3/10 - It's a Bird, A Plane... Interactive Fiction Hybrid! Don't let the mixed reviews fool you. I really liked this game. It's way overpriced at $10 though. Grab this in a bundle or heavily discounted. This is an Interactive Fiction game that combines some fun elements such as RPG battles and choose your own ending. This is a real bonus since the game is so short. It adds a much needed replay value. I completed 1.25 adventures in an hour... So for $10... I would not be a happy boy. This…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably one of the bad representation of what a chose your own adventure book is. A good ending you can only have by searching how to achieve it on internet because it's far fetched and not logical at all with no real clues given even though you're supposed to investigate. The story goes nowhere. It is ultra short. The only positive point is the graphics that remains nice overall. Probably a loss of time and money. But hey, if you're a fan of the genre, nothing stops you from giving it a try.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's OK. Not great. And just barely ok. The writing is cheesy. To get the 'Good' ending, you have to either look up a guide for hints, or grind out playing through the short story (can get through in under an hour), over and over - because the path to solving the 'Mystery' is incredibly random. For instance, you get a clue to a major super secret plot, by a league of super villains, by chasing down a random street criminal, with no obvious ties to said plot. You can build a character,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Appointment with F.E.A.R. is exactly what it sells itself as- a digital version of an older CYOA book. It's meant to be a parody of the super hero genre, however it's not very funny or engaging, and the hoops you have to jump through to get the true ending for each 'super power' don't feel very heroic and are often completely nonsensical. More importantly, there is no way(that I could see) to run the game in anything less than full-screen, and there are absolutely zero audio options, so the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I still have my book. The digital Book is Titan c.r.a.p
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Random Clues requiring specific actions to discover their solutions and then hope you did it just right in the right amount of time, otherwise its game over, you lose. No thanks, I've played enough Choose-Your-Own-Adventure to know that this one is just bad. No character investment, random clues that you NEED to solve and gimmick collectabble cards. Avoid
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've just finished (and enjoyed) playing as the powerful superhero; Dark Justice... When you begin you can choose one of four powers; super strength and flying, telepathic and kinetic powers, shooting energy blasts from your hands or technological gadgets and fisticuffs. You then get to choose a outfit look and custom the colour for your superhero outfit before choosing from the many randomly generated superhero names. After that, the city is yours to save however you see fit...but bare in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A bit dissapointing. Repetitive. And not always the right sort of cheesy. High difficulty also and low replayability. A shame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An on-screen production of one of Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. A radical change of direction from the usual sword&sorcery style games set in the world of Allansia, this one is a comic inspired story set in Titan City. You are a super-heroine, with a choice of one of four special powers. You must find the time and place of the next meeting of F.E.A.R., an organisation intent on world domination, and destroy it's maniac cyborg leader Vladimir Utoshski. You have a choice of costume…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a quirky choose your own adventure type deal. Be the superhero you always wanted to be! I'm usually not very into the superhero genre but even someone like me has fun playing through this game so there's that!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I made a video review to show off some of the features and gameplay of this game! http://youtu.be/IBNII8Gb3MQ I hope you enjoy! Martyr
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you've ever loved Superheroes before they got gritty or Fighting Fantasy books, you'll be in your element. It's tough to work out what "needs" to be done, and there's occasional mistakes, but for a trip back to Golden Heroes / Villains and Vigilantes - it's well worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The production values on this game are nothing short of amazing. What a fun and original port of this classic gamebook (which I finally have a chance to play). You're greeted with an engaging layout full of comic panels, bright colors and moody music. You get to pick your superhero's powers, name and even their look. The animations and quips bring you back to the old Batman show and keep you laughing. The collectible cards are a great add too. While I don't know exactly how this remake differs…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AHH FEEL THE NOSTALGIA! As a child growing up in the 80's and being a big reader it was a labour of love saving up money to buy every fighting fantasty book as they came out. Appointment With FEAR was a very differnt setting compared to most of the fighting fasntasy books. Tin Man games has done a great job of transferring this book to the computer. If you enjoyed fighting fantasy books back in the day then I highly reccommend you pick this up for your self or your children.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has some potential to be an interesting game, but it falls flat in a few areas, and I ultimately can't say I recommend the game. The game relies way too much on luck of the draw. If you get terrible clues to begin with, it will be hard to progress, and you will probably end up losing. In fact, I haven' succeeded in a single playthrough yet, which I guess speaks to how much improvement this game needs. As I already said, the game could have been something, but sadly turned out to be a boring,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too buggy to be enjoyable. Notably, whenever you open the menu and go back to the story, it takes you a bunch of steps back and it can permanently remove points you just obtained. This is particularly problematic for HP ("stamina") that you gain overnight and that you'll lose (with no way to earn them back until the next night) if you open the menu in the morning.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, first of all this is a choose yor adventure game with cartoonish graphics. You are a super hero who need to save the city. You have a few days, and a certain amount of movements/decisions per day. You can select four different heroes at the beginning. Each hero has his/her own plot. If ou want all the achievement you must play with all four heroes. However, the replayability is limited. If you are a good comic reader, you may give it a chance especially during a sale. Otherwise, it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me start by saying that not only do I love Steve Jackson's gamebooks, I also love the (majority) of the tin man adaptations. With that out of the way, I did not enjoy this game. It was fun for a while, but it is to randomly dependant on you finding certain hints. If you even try a bit of divulging from the main hints, then everything screws up, and everyone dies. Most of these are fun because of the large amounts of branching paths, and the slow crawl of progress that you make as you learn…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I went into this without any experience in Game Books, but I was excited about it. I've always been a fan of choose your own adventure stories, and thought that this gameplay would add another dimension to that formula. This ended up being something else altogether though. While the freedom to do as you wish is present, the punishment/reward system feels out of whack. My success seemed determined on my finding a specific set of clues, which would see me following a very specific direction in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not what I was hoping for. I was looking for a casual, fun, somewhat engaging superhero opus, what I got was a super silly game that wouldn't even let me create the name of my character. I had to page through randomly generated hero names until I found one that wasn't nonsense and just plain stupid. I could have done better using an on-line name randomizer. Also I guessing the Steve Jackson who wrote this is not the same guy behind Steve Jackson Games, the level of quality just isn't there. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's okay. I really like the Fighting Fantasy series and have already bought the other ones available on Steam, but the story in this one always bothered me. It's too self-consciously "wacky"...and there are far too many unforeseeable deaths that come out of nowhere. On the up-side, the presentation for this one is brilliant, focussing on a comic-strip style look and hiding the behind-the-scenes stuff like die rolls. But it crashes a lot. Just randomly freezes in the middle of a game and stops…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played a little, then clicked esc expecting menu, but game brought me back in time, and i lost my progress. Game itself may be fun, but controls is unfriendly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the worst games I've ever played, the story telling tries for campy but it just ends up dull and unimaginative, the combat and skill tests are just pseudo random dice rolls with all the excitement of playing an overlong game fo monopoly. Its almost impossible to care what happens at any point.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This Visual Novel is like olden day comics including; one liners, flashy graphics that pop out at you, terrible names for fighting moves and for your superhero, having a citizen job as a news reporter. You get to choose an avatar to represent your character out of a few choices. When you're dressed up as a news reporter you simply put a hat and glasses over that avatar. You have a set of 4 enhanced abilities to choose from, which I assume make some difference on what you can do, and what…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think the idea of the game is great, i think the graphics are great.. But it´s way to short, you have to do things absolutly right all the way through to win. No option to help who you think needs help.. Great potential, but way to short and narrow.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loving this game so far... still haven't managed to get the complete details of the FEAR meeting and win, but I'm not about to give up!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Appointment with F.E.A.R. has always been one of the best titles in the whole Fighting Fantasy series. Perhaps not THE best, but definitely in my top 5. This is the best rendition Tin Man has done of any gamebooks I've seen so far, and I'm delighted to see that they released this gem on Steam. It's superfun, graphically very pleasing and with added fun. The name generator is quite hilarious and the phrases the character utters during fights are simply memorable. A must have for anyone who grew…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Choose-your-own-adventure/genre Look, either you like this kind of thing, or you don't. If you do, and you can spare the cash, buy it. It's good. If you don't like CYOA's, don't buy it. Simple.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Although my first adventure with Dr. Sandwich failed miserably, I will keep plugging away. More of the FF books on Steam please, I played virtually all of them when I was younger and there are a lot of great stories that I'd like to play through again. Edit: After a few more hours of play... One thing I don't like, and I appreciate it is part of the game, is how completely random the information you get is. Bits of information about the F.E.A.R meeting are scattered about, but unless you a)…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Appointment with FEAR is an interesting adaptation of the Fighting Fantasy series book because, unlike most video game adaptations of the series, which stay more faithful to the books, this one feels more like a choice-based visual novel. It still follows the book at its core; it’s just the presentation that is different, with a comic book style and simplified stats and combat, where dice rolls are hidden from the player. But here it makes sense for two reasons: the story has a comic superhero…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game rating Innovation: Below average Indulgement qualities: Average Illustration: Poor Creativity and writing qualities: Below average Overall size: Massive
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I owned the original Fighting Fantasy book "Appointment with F.E.A.R" way back when, and enjoyed it a great deal, especially as it departed from the usual sword-and-sorcery settings. I was always impressed with how cleverly it was composed, with your ability to choose from no less than 4 super-powers and having to take quite a different path through the story to succeed in each case - despite its tounge-in-cheek superhero approach it was one of the most cleverly woven together FF books. Fast…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played a lot of these games, 80 days and the sorcery games among them, but this is not in that league. Looks nice but its just boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow. Not really much of a game here, it's more of a "beat your head against a wall until you hit the right combination of bricks to get through" visual novel. I played it through about a dozen times and never once succeeded. Each new decision point, introduced at least 2 more, all of which I had to traipse through by trial and error. I didn't get much out of the very generic storyline I encountered in my brief time playing, so I decided to throw this one into my "Instant Regret" category.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a fantastic game to which i'm surprised has received mixed reviews. It's a very fun gamebook with great art and choices and we really need more games like this on Steam.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Neither engaging nor amusing. It's medicore as a story, and poorly thought over as a game. Not worth the money even on a good discount.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the PC version of an old choose-your-own-adventure book. What might work as a book - pick one of the options at random and see what happens - is just terrible for a video game. You cannot control what happens to your character at all. You cannot go where you want to go, but only where the game currently allows you to go. Using you super powers doesn't work half of the time because - reasons? You collect clues on your way through the adventures, which looks great at first. Until you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A visual novel with a good idea and a nice artstyle that is a bit let down by a weak story and rng combat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwLbW0j13k
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you can be a hero.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bk-aiwtcHc
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple fun game but played through 3 times and still cant get to end !!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super game. Nice and cheese. Thanks for reading.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The one where YOU are a Superhero On the whole, I'm a newcomer to gamebooks. Odds are by the time I became acquainted with popular culture, the golden age of gamebooks had passed. I got properly acquainted with them first via the mobile version of Fighting Fantasy Classics. And this just so happens to be the first of said gamebooks I ever completed. The setting is possibly the most shameless parody of Silver Age superhero comics ever imagined. The player takes on the role of a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →basically saved the world on accident my second time through. nothing interesting happened in any other playthrough. maybe fun if you get it for free but lacking in content and meaningful options, not worth buying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →yep!! what fun!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty entertaining
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very fancy way to play this classic gamebook This standalone version seems different to the one in Fighting Fantasy Classics. If you were hoping to see dice rolls and calculate your STAMINA/SKILL/LUCK, you will be very surprised that you won't. It's all generated for you and there is a bit of cosmetic choices only at the beginning. As you should probably know, this game is based on Steve Jackson's Gamebook where you get to play a superhero and need to foil the supervilains' plans. It is…
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