Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All) ⭐
Developer Polnoch
A cozy garbage-cleaning simulator. Dig through the dump, find ultra-rare collectible cards, rescue tangled birds, and relax. From the Steam store page
263 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
45
Mixed
118 positive · 145 negative
95% range 39–51%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,106 of 1,697 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 263 · most liked firstThere's something real fishy going on here, and it's not just the fishing-themed game coming after this one. UPDATE: The developer's official Discord profile (Elsif) has confirmed that they DID use generative AI to make the music in the game. They also used the classic AI-bro excuse that typing all the prompts and cleaning up the generated audio was still super hard (despite, y'know, automating the actual content part of the content creation process). It is now formally confirmed the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is AI slop and could be made in a few hours if you knew how blender worked and how to use graphic design. Great concept but terrible execution. Bugs also made it unplayable. Played for 25 minutes, went to eat dinner, came back and opened the game again for it to be in Russian instead of English, and my save was completely gone. Refunded the game. Edit after dev response: Regardless of how AI was used in this game, I think it should've been disclosed to your user base before the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cleared all the trash with missing cards at the end. There's no way to get them, and the developer has abandoned the game. There's no notice or anything when you finish getting all the trash, the cart is really glitchy, and it's a bunch of AI.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I 100%'d it just to say I did but I can't recommend this, I love a good cleanup-the-mess game but this has no form of progression. Once you've filled up your first bag you've seen everything this game has to offer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game has ai images with ai music that's not disclosed anywhere on the page. don't support this slop. game is a great idea ruined by minimal effort
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think the game could be fun. I need to learn to check the bottom of a game page to see that this game used AI to make the music, when royalty free music exists. (selling the dang soundtrack when its ai generated too oof, even if "heavily edited") The upgrades could use some form of description, and I think the whole energy system is more of a drag than that it adds anything at all Could maybe use some trash sorting for better profit of trash
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It starts out fun, until you turn on the radio and are immediately noticing it's AI generated. It's not bad music, but the aftertaste is bad. I don't want this to become the standard. It's very mediocre and flat and I find it utterly deceiving to sell the soundtrack as a DLC when it was literally generated and I could not see a declaration in the DLC either. Well that's something that bugs me personally, but my negative review actually comes from this: At first you are pretty excited, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As of December 15 2025, this game is way too buggy to recommend. I still plan to 100% it because why not, it's all a collectathon. I went into the negatives a few times because it let me buy things I shouldn't have been able to. The game is also boring, nothing really done to make it stand out gameplay-wise from other collect-a-thons. THAT SAID! My opinion of the soundtrack is positive. [Ten seconds later] Aww, man, I just found out the soundtrack is generative AI. Never mind my support of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish I could recommend this game, but I cannot. While the gameplay itself is satisfying, and I have completed the game (well, what there is of it) I cannot in good conscience recommend it. There are two major reasons for this: First reason: The game isn't complete. There is no end game. You clear everything and are still missing cards. There is no end game message or game complete credits. Nothing. Just an empty field, a dog that does nothing, and... that's it. Nothing. Second Reason:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would have never bought this game had I known the soundtrack was made with AI. The soundtrack ended up really being the only good part of the game, the rest is repetitive and buggy at best. If the soundtrack isn't even real, then I have no reason to recommend it. Don't waste your money, even if you like mindless repetitive games there's plenty better out there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AI and stolen assests... Which is a shame, the devs clearly had a decent concept, and mostly okay controls. Then lazied out when it came to the the actual assets/soundtrack.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically an incremental upgrade collection game NOT ENOUGH ENERGY with an incredibly annoying and poorly thought NOT ENOUGH ENERGY out stamina system. Even when you max out NOT ENOUGH ENERGY both stamina upgrades (yes you need two), NOT ENOUGH ENERGY you will be constantly drinking beers. This constant NOT ENOUGH ENERGY interruption spoiled the chill collecting aspect NOT ENOUGH ENERGY of the game. I'll probably finish it eventually NOT ENOUGH ENERGY when I get more energy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game released with 2 major breaking bugs, one where trash pile 3 didnt load, and the worst one where your autosave got deleted after restarting the game. You'll be pretty much maxed after clearing trash pile 2, so a few more upgrades would be great.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this game is lying about how much AI they used in it. The description says that they only used AI as a basis for the music but the achievement thumbnails, skybox, and some of the assets look very suspicious. Something else suspicious is that the title for the game has a star emoji in it, to me it looks like an AI program made the title logo and then transferred it to text and thought that one of the stars was text.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Brought this game without knowing it used AI, I regret ever playing this because of the AI usage. Just don't get it. If you are good enough to edit AI songs, you should just make the songs yourself. That aside, it was fun to start with but then it got old fast Do not waste your money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Took 7 hours to finish. There is AI music and the game can get really buggy. Had to keep saving the game in order to fix everything. Oh and no ending too or reward. Just that clear empty lot and a folder of okay-ish cards? Meh. 3/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does not properly disclose its usage of AI. Beyond just the music I experienced a lot of bugs such as the dog getting stuck on nothing and re-entering the game to see that my upgrades had just vanished. It's a pretty relaxing game, but I cannot support it knowing there was AI used in ANY part of the process on top of all the issues I was having
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The 'just a one-man dev team' excuse that the dev uses is insulting to other solo devs. Games like Cave Story, Stardew Valley, Axiom Verge and others were made by one person over the course of several years. They took those years to improve in art, music, writing and programming to create the game that they wanted. Instead this dev just rushed the release with genAI and game-breaking bugs. Of course this isn't a game on that large a scale, but there were other cheap or even free methods that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice and fun game but need content: Need: More trash models More various tools More upgrades More upgrades for dog Make birds to be tools like dog and upgradable too Add upgrade for dog to return items to shop Multiplayer escpecially local/splitscreen Rewards for finding cards/birds Upgradable tools for cleaning cards Bugs: Dog can sometimes stuck in air while infinity running Game have default Unity icon in task bar Behind first trash eater invisible wall where its shouldnt be(demo don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is quite relaxing, fun to play while watching a video, or series. A gripe I have with the game though, is I fully emptied every pile, but only got 75% of the cards, I'm missing like 17 of them! very dissapointing to be honest, I was hoping to complete the collection, see all the artwork. Great game overall though, some bugs like the dog just freezing, not helping, or the trashbags flinging out of bounds, or trash items getting stuck underground. I just found out too the game used AI…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lack Luster I'm all for casual games but, this one is just flat out boring. I just started the 5th pile and already have power, energy, beer and garbage bag maxed out. There is no reason to max out the last three. The thought of digging through the remaining piles is just depressing. I think I'll have to admit to my wife she was right to throw them in the trash heap, the cards are just not worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first, I enjoyed this game quite a bit. Others would find it boring, but for me, a game where you spend money for upgrades to make even more money later on, scratches an itch for me. Like games such as power wash simulator, It's kind of satisfying. All of which fell apart for me as I started to get later on in my playthrough. I pretty much got 100%. I collected all the cards, birds, got all of the upgrades and even cleared EVERY PEICE OF TRASH in my garden. What happened in return, may you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't accidently sell the last bird you need for the achievement... Didn't realise if I were holding both the bird and a full bag of trash, it would also sell the bird. So that's fun. This game was a really quick, easy time killer. A few bugs, and the aforementioned last bug that really irritated me. Don't think I could happily recommend it, until said bugs are addressed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alright gamers, I'm not going to sugarcoat this review. This game is trash, both literally and physically. While the initial start of the game does start slow, even as you progress through the upgrades and gameplay things are extremely tedious and slow. Don't get me wrong, I love a good cleaning game but this just felt like a slop game that you'd find on Roblox or something. By the time you are a little over halfway through with maxed out upgrades and having collected all the birds and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly sad to see AI was utilized in the music creation portion of the game, but at least this taught me to go to the very bottom of the steam product page to find that information. The gameplay itself is fun, I just wish I didn't have to worry about AI putting a bad taste in my mouth whenever I want to try something.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No mention of AI being used on the store page, huge bummer. Was interested in playing this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AI was used to create the background music. i am wholeheartedly disappointed in this game. will not recommend. Played a bit and always with it muted so never noticed but will not support publishers who use ai slop over actual artists.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AI music used in the game, cant recommend until removed. Creatively bankrupt.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There was a lot that I was hoping for in this game that did not deliver. I knew it would be a repetitive thing but the piles are the same after the third one. The music is AI generated and they did not want to disclose that, which I do not like and wish I knew before I purchased. The ending is anticlimactic and was not worth the few hours that I did put in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love games like this. Lean back, relax, clean something or collect something. I have played them all. This one I had so much fun! It's rough around the edges but I expected that going in with it being a new game. But then, I trashed that last piece of trash, drank my last beer and sold my last valuable item but...what? Why have I not been congratulated on what I did??? Where is my achievement? My game finished! Collection finished! Well because you aren't done. You are short 17 cards. Enjoy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Between the use of AI-Generated content and multiple game breaking bugs I feel like this game suffers from the worst thing a game can, it's just boring. The gameplay loop is unbelievably shallow and the things you do at the start of the game you will proceed to do till the end. I understand ultimately this is just a small cheap game made more for the joke than anything and if you see the trailer and are interested please go ahead and purchase it. Just know that everything you see in the trailer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was hoping for a bit more. Seeing the second and third pile had different items I was hoping the other piles had more. The forth pile had the same as the first, the fifth had the same as the second. By that point, I feel fine not playing any more. If you're looking for a mindless game, their more out there. The first week this game was being sold for less then 5 dollars. That seems the right price. I may come back to change my rating when the game gets more stable. If later on each pile has…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trust the other bad reviews. Lag, glitches, no story, and can lose all upgrades when you leave the game and return.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Everybody's whining about AI while completely missing the fact that the game is boring... The real reason you prob don't want to play this game is because it's crazy repetitive in both assets and gameplay loop. There are only like 3 or 4 different sets of trash to clean up and they just keep getting repeated between piles. The cards that you have to find aren't really anything special either. The gameplay loop gets stale fast. The AI use is the least of the problems here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →completely abandoned and never finished. you cant even collect all the card. dont even bother. (and with cant even collect all the cards. 17 cards are missing from the game. you literally cant finish the collection.)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I play a lot of mindless cleaning type games, and while the initial idea of this game is interesting, the repetitive nature, and lack of any kind of progression after around the half way point makes it just a game to grind to turn off your brain. The trash piles are the same throughout, there's no increasing value & once you max out the upgrades I'd still say there's a lot of space to add further automation or speed improvements. Finished the achievements (shame one wasnt to actually…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I rarely refund games but the blatant use of AI where it isn't needed and the fact that the gameplay is just dull makes for a poor game experience. AI music is almost certainly just the same prompt put into an AI music generator but with different genres and once you've heard one track you've heard all of them. Also that trash can freaks me out lol TLDR game just screams cash grab with oversaturated AI usage and bad upgrades/mechanics
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed it at the beginning, but it's clunky and just an unenjoyable mess once you get further in. Not to mention the use of AI in creation, if I had read the reviews beforehand I would NOT have purchased.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →★☆☆☆☆ (1/5 stars) I really wanted to like this one because the premise is goofy and fun, but it just didn’t land for me. At its core, the game is a casual loop of cleaning up trash and digging around to find cards. That could’ve been relaxing or addictive, but instead it feels repetitive almost immediately. The gameplay loop gets old fast, and once you’ve been doing the same actions for a little while it starts to feel more like a chore than a game. The grind is also rough. You run out of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a bad game. People are harsh on their review cuz this is a simple, maybe 4-hour mindless game with a 'complete-the-objective' idea similar to Lumberjacked or Power Wash Simulator. It's buggy, but it's like any grindy collection game. Sometimes you have to go back to the menu to reset a bug. Overall, it was entertaining and easy to 100%. It would be nice to have an upgrade that will auto-drink beers for you at max or something, little QoL to make the ending grind a little less boring, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the game for 2.5 hours, saved and went and took a ♥♥♥♥. Came back and all of my progress is gone even my autosave.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good silly little cheap incremental game. Works fine on Linux with proton. The game is getting a lot of hate. it's not Ai slop and if you think you can make this game in Blender in 5 minutes, then you have never used Blender. <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was game #5 in my giant backlog of games. Dude this was literal torture... The amount of times I ran out of energy was crazy and then to make matters worse it never gets that much better. Even after maxing out all upgrades it's just slightly better than at the start. Don't even get me started on the dog.. Later on in the game after you max everything he still keeps finding valuable trash instead of just the cards or the birds and at that point you might as well just take the loss and star…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dev admitted to using AI to make the in game music and is selling the soundtrack. Steam or the dev have not listed on the store page that it is using AI. Hi everyone! We’d like to clear up the topic of AI use in our game. All the cards are hand-drawn, no AI was used for them. In the early days, we used AI only to prototype what the interface might look like, but everything in the game now is fully hand-crafted. AI did play a part in the music production, and we’re honest about that, but it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was having alot of fun streaming the game. Its a fun concept but there is many many bugs on top of Ai music. The use of Ai wasn't disclosed anywhere on the game which violates Steams TOS. I cleaned up every piece of trash and never got all the cards. The Dog glitched and i couldn't use him unless i reloaded my save. But reloading my save made me loose Upgrades. All my money stayed and the trash i cleaned up stayed gone, but my upgrade went away and i had to repurchase them. I also didn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish I had read reviews and forums on this game before buying it. I bought it expecting something that, while maybe a lil buggy would be right up my alley. Instead what I found was a horrible bug ridden mess full of soft and hard locks, progression breaking bugs, and developers who have effectively abandoned the game. Don't make the mistake I did, do not buy this game under any circumstances, its not even bad in a way thats ironically fun to play, its just a terrible piece of shovel…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The physics are incredibly buggy, the gameplay loop gets boring fast, the mechanics are set up in a way where you can *literally* soft-lock yourself if you don't manage your spending, and the worst of all is that THERE AREN'T EVEN ENOUGH CARDS HIDDEN IN THE JUNK TO ACTUALLY RECOVER YOUR "WHOLE" SET! AND YOU CAN EVEN GET DUPLICATES!!! And even if you clear out all the trash, sell all the valuables and get yourself completely leveled up there's no reward! No ending! Nothing! Unless this game gets…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not a fan. There is no ending to this game. you collect all the cards, birds and clean up all the trash and that' it. The game is incredibly glitchy and there are cards or trash that go inside the ground and you'll have no idea. Placing valuable trash in the car is infuriating. There was a glitch with collecting the birds and duplicate appeared even though all birds were collected.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First hour is pretty decent but after that it gets repetitive. In my opinion it was way to overhyped in the trailer and playing just felt like a chore after 30-60 minutes
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my wife loves the game, and she highly recommends it. she doesn't even game really... so it is very new user friendly, and obviously entertaining.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well you can't complete the game, only 63 / 80 cards exist on the map (excluding one dupe) so once you get those you can just press Esc and quit to desktop I guess because there's not gonna be any ending. The game is overall playable and all achievements are obtainable (with some caveats). It's actually pretty awesome for the first hour or so. But then it falls apart really quick when you realize the upgrades are getting more expensive, provide diminishing returns, and the gameplay is gonna be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is it rough around the edges? Yes. Do you, and the dog bug out at times? Yup? Does it scratch a collectathon itch? Somewhat. If it's on sale and you've completed better games of the genre (such as Acane: Tidy Up The Arcane Library), I'd reccommend it. If anyone has any game reccommendations similar feel free to comment, I'm in love with this genre at the moment.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AI slop get a better game, no ending and you have all the upgrades half way through the game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was looking forward to this game after seeing the demo on some Youtube videos, and I grabbed it on sale for around $5 after it came out. If you like repetitive, somewhat mindless games you can play while not having to think too hard, this is a fun game. I enjoyed the collectable aspect of it, but unfortunately, that is also where the game fell pretty flat. Items didn't always load in properly, so I haven't been able to actually complete the game. Even though I had a clear lot, I had 1 bird…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Therapeutic, relaxing.. but very repetitive. Definitely needs a lot more variety for the items you find in the trash pile! Also wish the cards you find were at random and not scripted by rarity, seems it starts to go down the line with the 'common' etc firstly.. Not worth the full price. Grab on sale!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was excited for this game as a fun little meme game. Then I started looking more into it. AI music. AI art. Dug deeper into this trash heap. The game description in very lack luster...almost like it was written by AI. Some reviews also have "written by bots" vibe to them. The biggest red flag is the fact the developer admitted to using AI music, not disclosing it, and is selling the soundtrack as DLC. AI does not belong in gaming. Do not buy. Edit: The dev trying to pull the "but for every…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfinished game has no ending and leaves you disappointed. You just wasted several hours of your life with no pay off. Don't buy this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is relaxing. perfect game to play while watching youtube or something. BUT!!! I have cleared every single piece of trash but have not found the last bird. I have 8 cards that I can't clean. I can't feed the dog anymore for some reason. So, I can't get all achievements. Only reason I thumb it down for now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a fun game, and i had a blast the first 2 hours. Fun incremental gameplay, your speeding up. Some good fun katamari~ish music in a lot of different styles about picking up trash. But it starts looping by the end of the first pile. Which is weird because im pretty sure its AI music. Couldnt they have generated hours of music instead of like, what, 25 mins? But then you reach the 4th pile, and its a copy of the first pile. And the upgrades are barely increasing anymore. Pile 5 is a copy of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked it a lot tbh. It's relaxing, it's satisfying and it's funny. If you liked A Game About Digging A Hole or minimalist collectathons then this is the game for you. I don't understand the mixed reviews for this. The description clearly states the AI music is part of it. But not a major part of the game. I didn't experience any bugs aside from the occational 2 second freeze when it auto saves. I was able to 100% it in 6.5 hours. So, it is a bit short but worth getting while it's on sale…
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