Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Game
Game2020
Help Will Come Tomorrow
Developer Arclight Creations
In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice. From the Steam store page
193 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 1, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
77
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142 positive · 43 negative
95% range 70–82%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
756 of 945 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 193 · most liked first[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38888018-United-Critics/] Please follow United Critics for quality reviews Help Will Come Tomorrow Review Good things: This is a survival game where you have to gather and manage your resources and build your camp. There are random events and also resources available on the map I think are placed randomly so it gives you some rogue-like feel. Also there are 9 possible characters and each of them can have random skills but I also think some of them…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An interesting concept, but god knows, this game is flawed in so many ways. First of all, game designers didn't know where to stop, adding too many mechanics. The tutorial is overwhelming. But even if you figure everything out, some of them doesn't have much sense, narrative- or gameplay-wise. First of all, the thing with relationship between the survivors. Most of the dialogues are just don't make sense at all and totally unpredictable. Also, I don't think it matters if you a communist or a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game has been out since 2020, isn't getting updates anymore. Still has some bugs. Various portions of activities are ridiculous, for which I'll give an example. You're going to make a delicious roast, requires 4 meat. You have 3 brand new fresh meat, and one meat that's a day old. You can't make it, because all 4 meat aren't at the same stage of freshness. If they were all a day old, or all fresh, you could make the stew. Super frustrating. You can't mix and match materials to build things. You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fortunately I bought this game in a bundle with "Dead in Vinland" which I would recommend instead. Generally I love the despair-management games, since they challenge Player's intellect and resolve. Not this one. First let's get the good parts outta way to begin with: 1. Any cultural and/or historical lore in games is good and welcome; 2. Attention to details always pays off. Character condition and clothing are visualized. 3. Trait discovery feature is authentic. Standing applause here. 4.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty bare bones in all aspects, but I kinda liked the simple crafting and survival. The screenshots on the store page are misleading; mechanically you get one screen for your base, plus the map which has events but no other locations. The other screens are just transitional. Each survivor has x amount of energy to spend for crafting or resting etc, or you can send them onto the map to gather resources, and maybe have an encounter or two. At EOD you will have a short, rather stilted…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is barely playable for an English-speaking audience. It's more or less a text adventure combined with a crafting system, but the translation is so poor that the events are unintelligible. It's very hard to accomplish objectives when you don't know how. Probably a decent game if you can understand what's going on but I'd recommend This War of Mine or even Dead in Bermuda far before this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rather shallow game. I hoped for something like "This War of Mine", but it`s not even close as good as TWoM. This game mainly consists of three screens: Your Camp, the small map, and camp talk at night. That`s it. You start in the Camp where you can upgrade five facilities,feed your people and craft things. Exploring the map is quite boring ... You may encounter wild animals which you can catch but they are only shown as graphics with some text to it. Otherwise you just go to different…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not read into the comments "oh, this game is too hard, mechanics are too random..." Yes, there are random factors, but that's just survival. Sometimes you do everything right, but the deck is stacked against you - just like in life. The game is fun, inventive and especially if you buy it on a sale for low cost it's an absolute steal. It offers three different scenarios and different characters, so you can do several play-throughs and it will still feel fresh. I do agree with those that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a game that is primarily text-based and about reading dialogue and backstory about the characters, it would have been worth it to put a little more effort into localization so that the translation into English was not so obviously broken. It's a shame, I suspect it's a much better game in the original language.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a much smoother experience in this game after I learned the key mechanisms. Before that, the game really frustrated me. I have played two similar games called Siege Survival: Gloria Victis and This War of Mine. Each game took me about three tries to get the hang of it. But I found this game frustrating as a first timer. I did about eight tries and still could not survive. When I was about to be fed up, I searched for walkthrough videos on the internet, and one of them clearly explained…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My feeling about this game are very mixed. But I will start with this. It is good and I (mostly-kinda) enjoyed playing it. In fact, I even found myself coming back to it just so I could get a victory. I've had (mainly) three runs with it. Two were on the normal difficulty (whose name I don't remember), and one where I won was on the hard difficulty - resident of siberia. Help will come tomorrow has many interesting mechanics. Its action based survival gameplay is quite intriguing. It does…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too many hard fail states that you don't know ahead of time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is quite addictive (as any other resource management game in my opnion), but honestly too many things annoyed me: 1) the game takes place in the Russian wilderness and features Russian characters, but the Russian writing/translation is quite poor (I had to switch to English). 2) the discussions that take place at night are somewhat weird, you can't always follow the logic / unclear how answers relate to what's been said. 3) it is not possible to combine different resources of the same…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Less fun version of Dead in Vineland. Irritatingly random events that as a player you cannot control or plan for, but which will drastically alter the game. Plus, very long, boring dialogues that can't easily be skipped. All the player really does is assign daily tasks for the characters, which gets old very quickly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't think Help Will Come Ever... not fun knowing bad dice rolls will inevitably pick off your crew of survivors. Even will food, shelter, water, weapons - the game seems to ignore them arbitrarily and kill off your crew unpredictably. This is on the easiest difficulty setting, too!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If it were cheaper, I'd recommend it (and almost did). I got it on clearance for $4 and am happy with the purchase. But I wouldn't be if it had been more than $10. The content is just too limited to justify the full price. "This War of Mine," which people have compared this game to, is priced the same, $20. But there is way more content in that game. This game is more similar to the phone app game, "Survive," where the gameplay is just making choices, resource management, and crafting, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So this is kinda like Frostpunk, but with a greater emphasis on the social and political aspects of survival. Very cool stuff, especially if you're a history buff.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the best quality game I've ever played. Devs of all games are always lazy. They save money and do hack jobs to one degree or another. But here I'm shocked at how believable are conversations and stories of these characters. And what surprisingly rare (not massively well-known) topics they discuss. The shooting of workers at the gold mines. That's Okay, if this game would be created in Russia. But how the hell can the Poles know about this shooting? This is a not mass-well-known…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →random thing that lives in my head rent-free: This underrated survival game, Help Will Come Tomorrow, takes place in the Russian Revolution. Players say it had “lazy translation” due to French usage in dialog. …Russia borrowed a LOT from the French. The characters talk like my older relatives did.
unlabelledView post →It's a tentative recommend, because there are some things wrong with this game. The interface doesn't always work right or intuitively (mixing different piles of mushrooms with different expiration dates to make a soup from them is something I still haven't managed despite having beaten the game twice, including on the hardest difficulty). The dialogue after a few playthroughs is 80% stuff you already know. The difficulty can change WILDLY due to RNG. The realism of some survival, crafting and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I sort of liked this game, but between the RNG, and the fact the mechanics and descriptions lead you in two different directions, I am not recommending it. As an example of the latter, (maybe this is a minor spoiler) although as I see it, it's misleading in the first place. It might seem minor, but there is one instruction in the game you should straight up ignore "It's a blizzard, it would be suicide to leave the camp" It is literally required for you to ignore this to complete the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Досить коротка гра на два рази проходження, цікава механіка. Як і в житті, ваші персонажі можуть не здружитися один з одним і наробити поганих речей при проходженні. Є можливість розвивати табір для виживання, фільтрувати воду, полювати, рибалити і крафтити різні цікаві речі. Рекомендую в зимові холодні вечори.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wouldn't recommend it. An interesting premise doesn't help it overcome several flaws compared to others in the genre. I'd suggest something like Frostpunk, Rimworld, Darkest Dungeon, Dead in Vinland, or Northgard. +Art style, theme +Difficulty settings +Character relationships +Unique traits, events -No voice -No rebinding -Barebones options -Tutorial text info dump -Slow pacing -Lacking direction -Cumbersome UI -Mouse only -Autosave only -Can't combine materials to meet…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It feels a little bit unbalanced as it swings quite heavily from "I have nothing, will I survive till tomorrow?" into "I have everything, nothing can hurt me and I woulld like some resource automation or at least not need to do so many chores.", but besides that, it is a nice game with a nice story about interesting people.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought this on sale and very happy with the amount of gameplay I've had out of it, although I would say it's a relatively "shallow" game compared to some other survival/resource management games I've played. I would still recommend it, with the caveat that the English can be a little wonky, the UI is a little clunky, and as other reviews have touched on, there are some odd game mechanic choices (like not being able to combine mushrooms that have different expiration dates). The characters all…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →>day 1 I escape attack on train >day 2 the help doesn't come I have been lied to by the title. Not recommended.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool story and mechanics, but really needs some text accessibility options for the visually impaired. =\
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love games like this, and it is a good game. Unfortunately, it is too buggy. Sometimes you try to proceed to the next day, but you cannot. Your camp members just sit around the fire with nothing to say, and no option to continue appears. The main quest needed to actually finish the game can be buggy too. If someone dies while holding a particular plot item during exploration, tough luck. You cannot craft the item again, and it just stays out in the wild with no option to pick it up if you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Help Will Come Tomorrow" is a challenging little game that is actually pretty decent. Developed by a Polish indie studio, it was surprising how well the developers knew and understood Russia's history and mannerisms. Like, you don't get that from history books or movies from that era. You must be in the know. I guessed they had Russians helping or advising them. Pretty well done. This game is very similar to "This War of Mine (2014)" but lacks the action and stealth game aspects but instead…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not an easy game. Quite challenging so just not for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arguing about Hegelian dialectics around a campfire in a Siberian blizzard while you starve. Magnificent! Definitely has some limitations (game gives you a fairly short deadline, dialogue translation is clumsy though never unintelligible, any amount of character animation would've been nice) but overall I applaud it as a very unique and engaging title.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great survival game you play during the revolution after the fall tzar Nicholas II, at the time when the Bolshevik Party took control of Russia. You scrap whatever you can to survive as you go through different event. The atmosphere is gloomy in a good way, the characters are well described and properly clothed for that period of time. The game is very similar to "Dead In Vinland" as a result great to have in your collection!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play this game for the whole straight night. All of the team get killed at the last mission. I felt haunted for that whole night.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a bit brutal and unforgiving, but not in the fun way, in the RNG way, but the somewhat interesting characters kind of make up for it. I found myself constantly getting frustrated, but also wanting to come back and give it another play through (1-5 hours). Worth a few bucks on sale but I don't think its worth picking up unless it really is your type of game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay is repetitive with no re-playability. Focused entirely on story and lacks gameplay elements. Very fun for about 30 minutes and then you just want it to be over.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look at my hours. They will continue to go up. I love this game so much. I wish there was DLC with more characters/content, but only because I adore this title and want more.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Developed by Arclight Creations and published by Klabater, Help Will Come Tomorrow is a survival strategy game that blends historical fiction with demanding resource management. Set during the chaos following the Russian Revolution, the game follows a small group of passengers who survive a train derailment along the Trans-Siberian Railway and find themselves stranded deep within the unforgiving Siberian wilderness. Rather than telling a grand military story, it focuses on ordinary people…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Challenging, but interesting experience. Be sure to give it a shot!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At the very beginning, I had no idea where to get water. With little experience in survival games, my first idea was to look for a pond or some other water source-but nothing worked. One of my characters had the "alcoholic" trait and kept pulling a bottle of vodka "from behind their back" all the time. My characters survived a whole week without water. Just on vodka. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got thoroughly addicted to this game after firing it up for the first time. It takes a little to get your head around it and what to do so it is a little bit slow at the start. Its kinda hard to explain it, the story is really interesting and you can actually complete it and save your people, (help may not come tomorrow but it WILL come) thats kinda the point. Its just not likely you'll get it on your first or even second playthrough because it is quite challenging. It takes a bit of trial…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Spoiler, it doesn't come tomorrow
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is good if you don't play the bear scenario. That scenario is bugged to be unwinnable. The other two scenarios work. A shame a game this old still has game breaking bugs. If you can get past the memorization elements this is a pretty decent survival turned based game with some really fun cooking mechanics and resource management.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i bought this on sale for 2.99. for that price i absolutely recommend. i played for about 7 hours , got 2 endings, and definitely didnt discover everything this game has to offer. i do wish there was more characters to choose from, but i understand why there isnt as the characters that are available are pretty fleshed out. 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the game very much, but until a bug that has me stuck is fixed - thumbs down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've only been playing it on the Passenger mode (easiest mode) Played several variations through to "death". Wondering if there is help at the end of the tunnel rather than death. But I do enjoy seeing the random scenarios that occur. It's definitely a game worth exploring if you like character interaction and development. I have always enjoyed text adventure and this game feels somewhat like that. Choices matter so to speak. I will update my review when I get an opportunity to play the other…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I belong to probably the last generation who could see around people who went thru the first World war and The Revolution, and listened to their stories first-person, although by the time I started school they were quite old. My own granddad was born in 1917, but than, he was the youngest of 9 siblings... About the game: 10/10 for visual design of characters - static pictures do tell the story, from the very Intro to the way they sit around - small details, their poses etc - they all meaning…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once you overcome the bad savegame management and your alt f4 addiction it gets really good. Its a mixture between this war of mine/siege survival and frostpunk with added character depth. (Im talking about immersion and feeling here, obv its not a city builder.) Some things are explained badly, i had some really bad times getting a grip of the game mechanics. But then again, you are not supposed to know everything beforehand. I love games like xcom, darkest dungeon and frostpunk so i also love…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the type of game that gets me hard. It doesn't mean it's for you or anyone else, but for me, hard. I like Survival management games where my mistakes cost. A giant bear if not dealt with comes and eats you. It's tough, even on normal. If you like survival strategy games, survival sims, or survival management, try it and you too may get hard.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there's easier to hunt a deer than to catch a fish in this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Survival, survival and LUCK. yup, even with the best intentions and armed with good strategy knowledge... well I suck! But very interesting choices to make and goals to achieve. Good luck!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On medium difficulty, 2 of my people got unsonscious on the second day and the other 2 didn't have any action points so my crew was hopeless. Not gonna retry for my nerves' sake.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found this game quite immersive and enjoyable to play, with interesting political dialogue that Russian history enthusiasts would enjoy poring over. It's reminiscent of Darkest Dungeon and Don't Starve with its party morale and base management system. The game isn't without its flaws. The expedition risk system is unclear - danger tiers seemed to be random and not related to bandit/Renegade presence. It was also a pain in the ass when resources to keep your characters alive or armed were…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game but really short and the little time you have its rushed because if you don't do x it's game over, i wanted to survive longer and not just do x and win the game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ya after just 30 minutes I refuse to spend any more time here. Game struggles from the "We make it unfair cause lol" syndrome. Despite all of your survivors coming from a train, everyone is half starved, dehydrated, and too tired to work properly. Didnt know they were on a prison train apparently. Lost all interest when it took literally ALL of my energy for an ENTIRE DAY just to make one batch of soup that didnt even fully feed everyone. Oh and it snowed so your shelter is underground now, gg…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice and challenging mechanics for strategy admirers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a lot of potential and it is enjoyable. It's not an easy game, but it is fun to see how 4 totally different persons can group and and try to survive together. I do have a few issues with some of the mechanics: - sometime the random gods are just working against you: everything fine in the night, wake up next morning and character X died - the choices during some conversations don't make much sense (and then cay sometime lead to very negative results all of the sudden)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7/10 TL;DR A very challenging roguelike survival game that keeps you on your toes until you learned on what to focus in the beginning. The game loop is satisfying but becomes a bit repetitive after the ~10th run. -------------------------------- Pros: Overall look and feel Beautiful art style Good music Gameplay Even on the "Survivor" difficulty (second hardest) you are gonna get your *** handed to you if you haven't figured out yet what to prioritize, what nets which benefits, where…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a lot of fun. You really need to focus on keeping them alive, there's quite a challenge to it, but the replayability is huge because there are more characters than you will get in one or two playthroughs, not to mention the extra challenges. Definitely recommend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Harder than life itself. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Help Will Come Tomorrow Gameplay youtu.be/avhm2mAKcD4 via @youtube In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. #survivalgame #helpwillcometomorrow #game #girlgamer
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