Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Game
Game2021
Hammerting
Developer Warpzone Studios
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory. From the Steam store page
187 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 24, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
35
Rotten
62 positive · 117 negative
95% range 28–42%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 62 | 117 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
8 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,480 of 2,605 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 187 · most liked firstDevs dropped it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →STAY AWAY! ABANDONED GAME! Could have been something amazing, but no surprise Team17 fully releases an unfinished game and then completely abandons it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →looks nice, doesn't work, last update 2022, the dev's had abandoned this game without fixing major issues
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was shaping up to be pretty fun. Then they released it too soon, pumped out a couple small updates and abandoned it. Still has some massive issues with gameplay and bugs. What a shame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game had lots of potential, and had a very unique art style and concept to it. However, the Developers broke their word and abandoned the game, having it be greatly incomplete. They wanted to move onto new games, which they will likely abandon as well.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is abandoned. It had so much potential, and they squandered it. Steam should allow refunds for BS like this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game has very good foundations, but was abandoned, do not waste your time...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pushed out in a half-finished state and then abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game actually had so much potential and I was saddened to see it abandoned. Had so many amazing aspects and It breaks my heart to know there will no more updates to it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned game... Don't buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game could have been awesome, after dev got bought they ''had'' to screw it..... Grab it on sale for maybe 10$ if you like Dwarves, diggy diggy hole......
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great concept but sadly abandoned. This should not be a full release title with the amount of bugs and lack of content for that price tag. It is currently on sale (Dec. 24, 2023) for 2 dollars but even then I don't think you should get it. The game was amazing and then all of a sudden.. no more QoL updates, no more communication with community, just dead silence. It is safe to assume the game has been abandoned at this point an we will not get any more updates. The last update was in march of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's truly unfortunate the developers decided to stop work on this game, it had a lot of potential. a few weird things i've noticed. Warpzone's website hasn't been updated since april 12 2023, it is now september 19th 2024. this is odd since they've talked about focusing on other projects but i have seen zero evidence to this? maybe NDAs preventing this i don't know another thing is the website for the game itself, the use AI images for the "art" and even weirder is they have AI art ads for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the concept, but it's very clear that the devs gave up somewhere along the way. Too many bugs, lack of polish, poor documentation, and very little QoL features. I don't blame the devs. They were probably forced to release ahead of when they were comfortable and gave up on patches because of all of the negative reviews. I hope they take pride in their work and keep on developing. This game is definitely an abandoned child, but I wish the devs luck.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is unfortunately unfinished. The development team was pulled off of this project before it was completed. If you can overlook the balancing issues and lack of late game, its a very fun little colony sim that deserved better.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a gem. Unfortunately it's a gem that was swallowed by the game industry, crapped out and flushed into the sewer of brilliant but unfinished games, and got stuck in a pile of crap clogging a drainpipe. It has been abandoned for years, but we're still playing it when we need some mindless fun. The core gameplay is more than decent, and you can see glimmers of what could have been. It's the kind of game that would shine if you'd clean it up and slowly polish it into a brilliant,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like others, I feel like this game had so much potential but feels unfinished. Lots of systems just don't mesh well, lots of QoL missing, lots of logic that's just broken.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alight so, I've had this game since it was in Early Access and it was a neat game that I enjoyed seeing development for. And it is actually still quite fun, but after finally getting around to beating it, it has a lot of flaws which make me want to steer folks away. Pros - Simpler in mechanics and in some ways more graphically appealing than several other Dwarf Fortress-likes I've played. - Relatively easy, most of the time. Your dwarves can't die, just become unconcious and can be healed.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME--DO NOT BUY IT This game has amazing promises, so much potential. You start building your with your dwarf. getting bigger and bigger. getting hype. Everything looks cool and great. Until suddenly... Nothing works correctly, everything is broken the dwarf are so confused wont work or craft even tho they have thousands of bars and all the materials. you missing parts, building that you "unlock" but never got You start having crazy problems Mid-game Freaking out, and start…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game at start, and the excavating concept and vertical building feels great. But after 10-15 hours there's absolutely nothing else to do in the game. Total lack of a story, and interaction with the other factions feels pretty useless too. What happened to the Team 17 from when I was a teenager? Most if not all of their recent games I tried feel like unfinished concepts.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had potential but most likely abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very cool game but it was abandoned
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had potential, but was abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware, don't buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DON'T BUY IT, devs abandonned the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such potential, wasted and abandoned. Why it is still $25 though is beyond me. If it ever goes down to zombie price $5 or less, then get it. It was neat.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could have been good, but was made worse with every update and is now abandoned. Why anyone would give a positive review to this buggy mess is beyond my understanding. My advice: save your money!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have enjoyed playing this game on and off for a number of years now. But to my sadness as I load up the game today. It immediately crashes on start up. there have always been loading issues. Having to go in and delete a Steam file or such but now that the game is abandoned I am sadly over playing it any more. Off to my do not load pile of games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't buy at full price. It's 90% off during sales because the dev's went to get milk and never came back.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game had so much potential. but sadly is now just abandon and shipped. there are still so many bugs that sometimes it becomes a bit hard to play. if it is on sale for 80% off its worth the time you will get out of it but in its current state and price it is not a good value. hopefully they will finish the product that they are selling.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned, don't buy. Had potential, but will never be realized.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I thought about the design for Hammerting, our Dwarven mining colony sim, I thought about it in terms of a kind of ternary plot: game, sim, and toy. Anyway the original thread is about Bethesda-style RPGs and it's baffling to me there are still barely any contenders.
unlabelledView post →Promising but not finished and abandid. Worst problem is the balancing, which makes it for me unplayable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has a lot of polish, and very compelling core systems, but was basically released incomplete, and it's clear at this point that it won't be getting any updates. If you like the thought of just building a dwarven ant farm and watching them go, you might enjoy "making your own fun," but there's really no point, objectives or challenge to any of it. What few overarching quests do exist are the exact same proof-of-concept placeholders used during early access, and completely half-baked.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As many have said, this game is not complete, and due to the poor AI for jobs/actions, it is very frustrating. Example: built horizontal scaffolding to mine ore. Now those are not needed anymore, so to make space I request to demolish said scaffolding. The system is smart enough to set the most far away to demolish as normal priority, and all the others as lower priority. Once the most far away one is demolished, the second most far away (now the new-most far away) is set automatically as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned, no complete according to the developer. Buggy, a little. Still a good game and worth playing if you like colony and resource management sims. It's a good game, and has a lot going on. There apparently won't be any major updates anymore, but still a fun game and one I would suggest getting if you like this type of game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't buy the devs ditched this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found the early game for this one quite fun and not much of an issue but the late game is absolutely terrible, it's extremely slow and punishing, I can go AFK for days and still basically have nothing to show for it, even when I have a working method of getting gold. I haven't played many of these types of games but I would say skip this one, it's painfully bad at the end game, and I am only getting all achievements for it for the sake of completion which is my goal for my library.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was great while in development. Ambitious. Fun. Every patch made it better. Now its abandoned. Quality of life update 4 basically made it harder and broken. There isnt an end game like we were promised. The overworld play is mostly useless except for selling and buying for your colony. We were supposed to build up our allies to fight some overlord but he never appeared. Its basically worth it for 5 bucks but dont pay more than that
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fun and has a lot of potential. But it left early access before its finished. Production chains have many issues, and there hasn#t been an update for a long time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried to give it a chance, but it is just bad. You have to have a special interest in this type of game to actually enjoy it. The dwarves are mostly braindead, their AI will do bizarre things that you did not ask for, or complete tasks very inefficiently. You have to micromanage these units and even then, I found myself yelling at them in frustration at times, cause it honestly feels like they are against you at times. They can't cooperate with each other at tasks and even having them…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could have been a really good game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent game with a fun concept that is dead. No updates for years. Do not buy. This game is NOT finished despite how it is billed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a shame this game has been review bombed. Even though the developers stopped releasing updates and bugfixes early in development, and as sucky as that is, the actual gameplay is still a hoot. I had a great time with it and still encourage others to give it a go if you love dwarves and gameplay similar to Oxygen Not Included. I actually got more hours out of this than ONI and arguably more enjoyment. It doesn't have the depth nor does it have the complexity of that title, but in my…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Unfinished and no updates since 2022. Had so much potential" x2
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played about 200 hours of this game, trying to go around the plethora of issues it has, unsuccessfully. First of all, the interface is horrendous, you have buildings with 'charges', like farms' fertility, that regenerate over time, if you use it too much, you need to wait for these 'charges' to recharge before using it again. What is the most obvious way to solve this issue? you build more farms, but you can't copy settings from one building to another. If you want to have the same set of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned buggy mess
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hasnt been upgated in 2 years, decent game but with it being an early release version theres still many flaws
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →25 bucks for an unfinished piece of abandonware
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played all day for 2 days and there are so many bugs I am pulling my hair out. I play a lot of video games of this genre, and it is so buggy I cant even play it anymore. I am so tired of these broken games being allowed to be sold. It seems like it could have been one of those games you play forever, but unfortunately, the game bugs out once your heavily invested. I have started over 3 times with hours invested and get stuck at the same points. Shame on you steam for allowing slop to be sold.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's still a pretty great game with some pretty deep mechanics, but unfortunately the lack of automation means it doesn't scale and eventually you're bogged down just micromanaging things that don't really make sense. Let my boys upgrade their own armor and weapons at least! It's a great game, but too much micromanaging annoying things for my taste. Either make the dwarves more heroic so I only have to manage like 10, or automate them so I can have 40+, because micromanaging 40+ dwarves is just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I went and found my game loop slides from the Hammerting "game design" deck. Might be of interest - it's kind of rare to see actual game documentation, so hopefully someone will find it interesting! To be clear - I mostly agree with Joey's article! :) #gamedesign
unlabelledView post →This was such a good fantasy dwarves mining, building, crafting and management game, its so unfortunate the development ended prematurely for this game. before modding and the steam workshop could be added, the thing people could have done with this, myself included! i had my fair deal of fun with it, even in its current state it is in, and it is pretty solid for being semi-finished. The only problems i ran into was graphical bugs but didnt deter me from playing, there was crashes regarding…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've experienced everything this game has to offer and I really have mixed feelings about it. I'll start with the good... The graphics are nice and the sounds are decent. The management is fun for a little while until you get far enough that it becomes essential to micromanage everything every dwarf does without being able to directly tell them what to do... And the bad... Almost nothing is explained minus very rushed tutorial screens that give you no clear direction, they just highlight…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wouldn't recommend it at $25. I got it as part of Humble Bundle many moons ago and aside from that, I don't think I would have purchased it. The game has been "abandoned" by the devs and overall, I think it's decent. There's definitely a very solid foundation of a game here but since it's been abandoned, there just isn't much. Once you get production going (which takes maybe an hour or two), there's no longer any sort of threat in the game. Enemies are lackluster except for a few at the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →incomplete abandonware. not much else to say really...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game concept for a Mountain Dwarf themed City-Sim, but unfortunately unpolished and abandoned by the devs back in early 2022. I've listed a few pros, cons, and mids below from my personal opinion and experience. If the devs ever do decide to come back to work on the game, I would probably be likely to revise my review and recommend the game but that's frankly doubtful. If it's on sale for like $5 or less, it's worth a try, but almost definitely not at full price in its current state.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to love Hammerting. The idea of managing a dwarven mining colony deep underground had a ton of potential, and the art style is charming. Unfortunately, even after full release and several updates, the game still feels like it's in early access. The AI pathfinding is clunky, leading to dwarves getting stuck or refusing to do tasks. The logistics system, which should be the core of the gameplay, is overly complex yet somehow inefficient and frustrating to use. Despite some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game with a good atmosphere but unfortunately does not appear to be in development anymore. If you can get it in a bundle or super sale its well worth it!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game could have been so good. I like the theme of dwarves in the mountain, there's hints at tons of content, and trading with the rest of the world is an interesting idea. Unfortunately, It's just not finished, and seems to be abandoned. I tried so hard to figure out farming, then looked online and found out that mechanic is just broken. Shame. I love farming. I died once because high level slimes attacked me out of nowhere, and unless you've done the upgrades right, there's nothing you…
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