Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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Game2019
The Great Perhaps
Developer Caligari Games
The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past. From the Steam store page
195 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Aug 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
65
Fresh
125 positive · 67 negative
95% range 58–71%
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| Steam reviews | 125 | 67 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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3 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
687 of 854 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 195 · most liked first+++ easy & fast 100 % Steam Achievements ++ nice Atmosphere (Present & Past) --- *NO FIVE* (5) Steam Trading Cards *SET* (Steam Feature) -- very short for Full Price Good for Achievement Hunters, Genre Fans & Games Collectors https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016930/The_Great_Perhaps/
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"The Great Perhaps" is an interesting game.
unlabelledView post →This is almost a good game... almost. It's a point and click game game without the pointing and clicking, instead you you walk with A and D. And this is where the first problem arises: The controls. You walk at a snails pace which means you have to hold shift at all times to run. Throwing stuff with F is also quite clunky as you have to hold A D again to get the direction. Here is the voice line you are gonna hear the most in the game: "oh no! You died!" It's like limbo, you are constantly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WARNING ! This game is NOT an adventure game, but a platformer game, that requires quite a lot of keyboard dexterity, So bear that in mind, before you buy it. Furthermore there are no manual saving, meaning you have to start a level over again and again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got hooked on the concept from reading about the game and watching the trailer, but unfortunately, I did not enjoy playing the game. I like that you can peek into a different time period from the one you're in, as a way to scout out dangers, but in practice this doesn't always work well, as some dangers move quickly, and it also means that making a full switch often takes too long to be able to react quickly when you do wind up in immediate danger. There have also been several chase…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You need to be aware that this game ends on a cliffhanger. All questions you may have about the plot won't be answered in this game, so we should expect a great perhaps 2 in the future... The Great Perhaps is a side scrolling game with adventure game elements. I liked the time travel idea between two timelines and exploring the different changes in the world in the two was fun. I found the art style beautiful (which was my main reason to purchase the game), but the English voice over was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent little platformer game but with some quirks: -English translation is a little off. -Voice acting is pretty bad. At least they could do is run the AI's voice through some kind of filter instead of just having them try to sound like what they think a robotic voice will sound like. -For being a platformer, the character movement (both visually and responding to key press) is not very good. -They don't explains some of the game mechanics very well. I.E. You are not aware there is a time…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like puzzle games and dystopian themes so I bought this game on sale. For that price (2.5 euros) this is a meh game. The art style is nice, but the gameplay is quite bad: - the controls are confusing: using an item can be either E key or F key, depending on the throwability of the item - you carry one item only, which does not fit in the story. - autosaves only: there are trial and error styled puzzles, but you can not save before you try something, you have to do long sequences again…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before I write my first-ever review, let us get one thing straight. I'm a 90s kid. I grew up playing Super Nintendo, Sega and Dendy. Times were good back then, you know? I had no responsibilities, school was easy, and girls — simple to understand. What else would a regular boy want? Time has passed, however. Games got more advanced and the world's gone way too complicated. For years I've been eager to play a video game that would remind me of my careless childhood — full of joy, adventures and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good premise, good ideas (especially, the time-travelling puzzles are pretty neat), but ultimately a letdown. What sunk my boat as early as the 2nd chapter is that the controls are INFURIATING. I mean, really??? If an object drops next to an interactable element, good luck spending 10 minutes trying to pick it up again because the game will prioritise the interaction over the object, and the interaction field is very wide.This plays like a bad video game from the 90's, or a bad beta version. My…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like this game conceptually; an astronaut wakes up in the far future and needs to find out what happened on Earth...but in execution it just becomes a short and monotonous mess. I think it would had benefited greatly if it had been a point and click game... instead the developers went for this gameplay where you need to switch timelines, which sound great in theory, but the "switch" is timed, leading to alot of unfair deaths when it switches and you land on a pit or another instant death…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Great Perhaps has an alright artstyle and an interesting premise. The puzzles are super easy, to the point it makes the game boring and not challenging. It actually wouldn't be a bad game if the controls were responsive. Although I'm not going to fight the controls to play it. Not recommended
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My only complaint is that I wish the game was longer. Amazing art and music, very atmospheric. Puzzles aren't very difficult, but they're interesting enough to be enjoyable. Recommended, especially on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really loved the game... but then there was the ending..... yeah... really? maybe im too stupid to get the point, maybe it was the way it was presented, but for me it was a total turn off and felt like the game was unfinished.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In game menus are missing, something the developer is aware of and apparently fixed, but their publisher won't publish, so you'll be stuck trying to navigate that issue. Otherwise, the story isn't horrible, puzzles aren't too bad, just a shorter game with some attempts at being philosophical
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Puzzle game where you switch between the past and present, though the puzzles are simple to solve and frequently buggy. Throwing items is an important part to solving puzzles and the 'switch' from past to present happens automatically, there is also an annoying bug where if an item is thrown as the world changes from past to present the item thrown doesn't start the needed cutscene. Thrown items can be out of reach or disappear afterwards which softlocks the game until you restart or find a way…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why did dev design a time limit for lantern?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros no annoying dialogue apart from the beginning sequence great animation style future-past concept executed well with the lantern all the right elements for a good plot Cons there is hardly any interaction with the environment which is a shame because it's so inviting and intriguing soooooo slow - no way to speed up the character and he's very one-dimensional, just left and right I played for over an hour and the puzzle element just seemed to be mostly timing-based gameplay that requires…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is a little bit short, but since the story is well written it kind of makes up for it. The art, story, characters, music, and puzzles are all good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't bother with this title, here's why. When Daedalic drops a new title, I buy - especially when it's marked to be an adventure game, because that's what they do best. And next to titles like Deponia, Edna & Harvey, Dark Eye, Pillars and The Whispered World, this new game sounded pretty exciting! Except.. The Great Perhaps falls flat, where all these other titles shine. The voice acting is dull and robotic, the story is unimaginative and overdone, the mechanics often end up feeling…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually liked the overall chill & pondering of life vibe of the game. Had some major issues with keyboard functions, I use a wireless one & it normally does fine. But for the apartment scene, I had to get up & use my laptop keyboard to only get a marginally result, it was really frustrating. But the biggest reason I'm giving this game a thumbs down is the ending. You don't find out the cause of the disaster, you find out the reason why you can travel to the past, but not why the world ended.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty disappointed with the game. Probably the only good thing about this game is the art style. Even then if you care for this art style. Everything else is less than stellar. The story is garbage. Also game struggles with the identity. Is it a platformer? Is it a puzzle adventure? The controls in the game is very bad when you have to do some more elaborate moves other than moving right and left. Puzzles are almost non-existent. Even in this short 2-3 hours gameplay time I've seen the same…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Daedalic Entertainment continues to delight players with interesting quests. This time, at a big discount, the game "The Great Perhaps" got into my collection. What was released in 2019 and can be said to indirectly predict the future. According to the story, the player in the role of an astronaut is in orbit. While an unexpected incident occurs on earth, due to which the globe is covered with radioactive ash. Most likely, the third world war happened on Earth.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enjoyable game with a good story. The time travel mechanic makes for some interesting puzzle designs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An interesting story and the core gameplay mechanic promise a lot of entertainment. Unfortunately, the game falls short in many areas. I still recommend it. If you want to know what axes I have to grind with The Great Perhaps, watch my review, where I go into more detail: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3434480163
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting 2D adventure game with decent puzzles for one or two evenings. The music and visual design of the game is very pleasant. Something in between of Valiant Hearts and Singularity. however, I guessed ending quite right, Novikov self-consistency principle eliminates possibility of good ending in such games, but still it was worth it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game breaking bug won't let me finish the game, beware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(Played on linux/Nouveau. The GUI is invisible until you find a proper resolution, yet the side-scrolling game surprisingly works.) Timers + Checkpoints 0/10 Arcade game. Slow, boring arcade, but arcade nonetheless. You know what I like in my adventure games? Something for the brain. Not counting the time between two trains and how long a train takes to pass in order to synchronise my moves and my waits. Also, I like to be able to save, for I know better than any dev what I want to redo and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's kind of a 6/10 - art style surely carries it, but every other factor is lackluster. Game is about 4 hours long, but youtube has a playthrough of 1 hour (skipping dialogue, knowing solutions) - sadly a good half of that 4 hours is backtracing "puzzles" or dying from unavoidable/unexpected threats. Jumping and throwing work like you're on the Moon. Animations are just.. lazy. At points when dying into pits the game didn't even bother to let me fall out of the screen, I just stopped on a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A sci-fi adventure game that involves an interesting time travel mechanic where you play as an astronaut who decided to return to Earth after a catastrophic event that seemingly annihilated all humans on the planet. I love the whole idea of switching between two timelines on the fly which resulted in a few genuine moments of tragic revelations. Just when things started to get more challenging and complicated however, the game ended soon after. The Great Perhaps has a lot of potential to become…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game! This is what I will tell my children about someday. Such an amazing story this game tells. I laughed, I cried. Thank you! Gameplay is relatively good, puzzles are simple and not annoying. Music and atmosphere are just magical, I felt myself completely immersed and that’s what this game’s about. If you want to spend a couple of hours in a beautiful world with an amazing story – this game is for you!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very nice short 2d puzzle game. Has some nice music very calming and emotional. Story is very interesting and cool and mysterious. If your fine with a 1-2 hour post apocalyptic russian game this game is really good. 8/10 could be longer but still good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm more of a console gamer myself, but I just couldn't wait for this game on consoles, so here I am. A great little indie game. I've finished it in 3 hours, and it was an amazing journey from the beggining till the end. Atmosphere is very immersive and I really enjoyed the music and voice acting. Highly recommend to people who like great storytelling games with non-banal gameplay. I hope to see a DLC or a sequel one day! And yes, this game will be great on consoles on day (I hope). Pros +…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Medium story with bad ending that answers nothing. But on sale for 1 euro it's a nice atmospheric time-killer with an pretty interesting gameplay element.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not recommended. This game looks pretty promising, but doesn't really deliver in my opinion. It's about time-traveling obviously. Betraying the expectations on this kind of games, the mechanics have very little cause-and-effects between different time periods (other than in one particular map). The gameplay itself is pretty time-based though. A lot of puzzles need good timing on switching between time periods and some action to solve. The gameplay is fast-paced but all motions in this game is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A surprise for sure! This was quite a good experience, especially if you like time travel and sci-fi in general. The story was cliché and you can see the ending from miles away if you are a fan (though, the twist was good). Gameplay is side scroller with majority of times solving puzzles and transitioning between past and present which was neat and sometimes, had quite funny scenes. The interaction with AI is quite funny with many sarcastic takes. Music was good and controls were easy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nightmare The controls are horribly clumsy. As bad as this might be: Press the "wrong" button once, and all your progress is lost. Yep, you can start right from the beginning. Or you can just skip this mess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is easily one of the most boring games I've played in a long time. It's a strange mixture where the unique elements really only serve to make the game more tedious. The background artwork and the story were the only things that kept me playing to the end. I don't think I'd ever replay this game, in fact, I'd probably like it more if it was shorter. But I'm getting ahead of myself, time to go into detail. The Great Perhaps is an adventure game that follows an astronaut, listed as Kosmos in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Great Perhaps is an interesting puzzle adventure game where the gimmick mechanism is time travel, you need to switch between the present and the past to solve puzzles and to progress. In that sense the game reminds me of The Silent Age. The story is interesting, maybe a bit cliché but it works out. There is a companion who always makes fun remarks, but that's about it. Would have been fun to see the companion be more part of the puzzles, etc. I won't discuss the end too much, for the sole…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't think this is a bad game, but I don't think this is a great game. It doesn't really feel like there are much puzzles and it does not fit into the category of point and click in my opinion. The story never seemed to pay off. Will I play it again, no. Do I want my money back, no. But, I recommend waiting to get this on sale as I did. I knew the reviews were mixed and I probably would not be a huge fan, but I wanted to try it and I'm glad I did, but does not live up to the Daedelic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a game like this, you need to have: (a) good voice acting (or no voice at all); (b) good art and animation. None of these are well executed in the game. What's left is gameplay which is unimpressive at best and essentially a long fetch-quest.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game! Sometimes it's a bit chunky, but the atmosphere and the story are great! Recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game, but the controls are very clunky and the overall standard is meh. If you enjoy this kind of game play The Silent Age. It has an almost identical time travel device but is far superior.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice platformer walking sim, the "quests" are a bit easy fetch x bring it to y a lot. But the AI voice and mainchar one are good and nice written dialogs. The einding is a bit of a let down but fitting for the overall feeling of the game. + Dark timetravel saga + nice drawn levels (2x for both time lines) - bit short + Dialogs + Musik
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i enjoyed this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was cute and humble in its story and time-travelling mechanic. But, perhaps... it would have been a great adventure game if the developers would iron out the kinks and bugs, and movement controls... a great perhaps.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Great Perhaps, developed by Caligari Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment, offers players an emotionally charged narrative-driven adventure that explores themes of loss, memory, and the fragility of time. At its core, the game tells the story of an astronaut returning to a post-apocalyptic Earth, only to find a world devastated by natural disasters. This bleak setting sets the stage for a reflective journey as the protagonist discovers a mysterious lantern that allows him to travel…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Picked this up during the Steam Winter Sale and I am so glad I did. This game is simple side scroller game and yet the story is rich with great art and music to back it up. The mechanics of switching back and forth between past and present is what initially drew me in and is what kept me engage even when some of the game tasks began to feel repetitive. I am not an advanced or highly skilled gamer by any means and found the game to be decently challenging, I died so many times mainly because I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game from a Russian-origin developer with a conscience. Дякую, Caligari Games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really don't like putting negative reviews for games that are so small, but I really was expecting some time-shifting puzzles. Yet none of the "puzzles" were of any challenge. Frankly, the hardest puzzles was having to know exactly when the metro was coming through to avoid it in the metro tunnel. The story may pick up later on in the game, but for the short time I played there was no hook outside of trying to find your family. No interesting point happened for that long, outside of being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not so great. A short game without much of a story, and the puzzles aren't interesting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game with lots of potential that ended up being disappointing. Story: The story is decent. Most of the game it's really well written and is setting up for a great conclusion, but it all falls apart at the end. The end relies on the protagonist being a complete idiot and kinda ruins the rest of the story. It feels like they rushed the ending and didn't check to see if it was any good. Puzzles: You might expect that a game with time travel would have interesting puzzles. You'd be wrong. Most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Great Perhaps is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle game, where you play as an astronaut returning to Earth after spending a century in cryosleep. The graphics are pretty nice, hand-drawn style, with Eastern European and Soviet aesthetics. One place is also based on a real monument in Bulgaria, the Buzludzha. Shortly into the game you will have a mysterious lantern, which you can shine to peek into the past, or fully travel back in time. The lantern's time-travel ability is the main gameplay…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a fan of being killed or chased in any game, or time restrictive maneuvers. This one is no exception. There may be a good story here, but I'm not digging the mechanics.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended but just about. Voice acting was OK, the art-style was nice and I guess its technically quite impressive but the game-play was frustrating at times; unfortunately quite a lot of the puzzles rely on speed and dexterity rather than intelligence. More checkpoints would have been nice. Its also quite short, quite a lot of my game time was leaving the game running. Play the Silent Age if you want a much better implementation of this time switching concept
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Morlan's shorts: Enjoyable melancholic story, easy/medium puzzles, detailed graphics and convincing atmosphere, some scary elements but not horror level material, overall an enjoyable little title with its quirky time-travel element but.. bring down that Great price and Perhaps more people will get to it.. (2 coins should be about right) Don't waste more time reading lengthy reviews.. time is of the essence!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got myself soft locked after playing 30 minutes and I wasn't interested in restarting the entire game. the gas cylinder got itself stuck at the top of the screen, blocking me honestly the idea is wonderful, but the execution was pretty awful. for starters the voice acting is terrible, and in this case, the game would have been much stronger if it didn't have any voice acting at all, show don't tell, the audience can put 2+2 together. in the same vein of more is less, in 30 minutes I spent…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Great Perhaps has never happen.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was totally worth it. Nice small story and a very nice Chello score,
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the concept is interesting, the execution is unsatisfying. The game feels unpolished in a lot of different ways: The art, the animation, the writing, the voice acting. It's an impressive effort for such a small indie game studio, but overall a brief and mediocre experience. I bought it on a significant discount and didn't regret it; but I wouldn't pay full price.
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