Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Game
Game2015
Vector Thrust
Developer TimeSymmetry
Vector Thrust is a fast-paced single and mulltiplayer combat flight game, using a unique cel shaded art style. The game features 260 fully playable aircraft (through various iterations of over 45 aircraft models). From the Steam store page
192 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 8, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
29
Rotten
55 positive · 136 negative
95% range 23–36%
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| Steam reviews | 55 | 136 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
355 of 745 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 192 · most liked firstA decent flight game left 4 dead :( bought this game at 75% off looking at the screenshots and the number of planes it featured , i was expecting a decent campaign mode with all the classic aircraft and probably some extra stuff. What i found led me to understand well why the game has a average score... Lets start of with the good things - A decent well made game considering the price range falls at indie game levels , you can see from the graphics and depth they were trying to attempt a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I bought the game in it's Alpha state. I had high expectations for it. Reading all of the developer's plans and ideas made me had faith in VT, ranging from new aircraft models to creative gameplay enhancements while mixing the best of arcade action and tactical gameplay we aircraft lovers like so much. The game, although far from polished, felt like it was loved by both its creator and its creative modding community. But after a buggy release, with a short, umpolished campaign and with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a way to fix issues with starting the game up. Apparently the game doesn't know how to create it's config.ini file on it's first load. That being said, this game is highly mediocre anyways and can't reccomend it, but for those who liked playing it in the Windows 7 era and want the game to work on Windows 10 and 11 I got you. To fix it, make the config.ini file in the main Vector Thrust directory, and cut and paste this into it: width = 1920 height = 1080 FSAA = 2 colourDepth = 32…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The bones of a good game left to rot as abandonware. All the elements of a top notch indie arcade-flight sim are there... clean flight model, unique and attractive artstyle, lots of planes with huge unlock trees, sandbox tools... but the devs never made those pieces into a cohesive/functional game. It comes off as a "passion project" whose creator got bored and forgot about it 3/4 of the way through development. If you've already played AC7 and Project Wingman and you're really desperate for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Wingman is what Vector Thrust should have been. Don't buy this. broken for a lot of people. buy Ace Combat 7. Buy Project Wingman, buy anything else. not worth 25$. not worth 2.50$ not worth the 3gb or hard drive space it takes up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is something of a tragedy in a lot of ways. It has a brilliant art style. It has a blistering aircraft roster. It has solid fundamental gameplay and A.I. But its content store is unfinished, the game crashes to desktop incessantly, and it appears to be incompletely coded. If the developers were actually present to account for and address these issues, then Vector Thrust could be a legitimately good game. But instead, the game is incomplete, crawling with technical issues that make…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game about 2 years ago when it still recieved updates, and couldn't play it. The controls didn't work, gamebreaking bugs every 5 minutes, crashes after every mission, and many other problems. I just installed this again today, and tried to play it again. Controller support still isn't working correctly, flew through a waypoint in the first mission that failed to trigger multiple times, had to restart the mission, then the game crashed on me after killing the first enemy. Started…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was abandoned. Left unfinished. Don't buy this piece of garbage. Wait for AC7.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game does not allow two input devices, hence my hotas is useless. deinstalled instantly, what a shame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game had promise, but was completely abandoned in an unfinished state by the devs. Just go check out Project Wingman instead if you want an indie game inspired by Ace Combat.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could have been nifty little "Air Combat" clone with a neat cell-shaded rendering engine. Instead, is broken and buggy, and abandoned by its developer. I don't have too many "buyer's remorse" titles in my Steam library, but this is one of the few. Avoid like the plague. There's nothing here worth the hassle or the time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vector Thrust crawled so Project Wingman could Soar.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incomplete, unfinished. Sad because this one had potential back in its day.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In addition to reflecting a wildly unreasonable expectation of eternal support, it also dilutes the word for those times where a game *is* abandoned in a wildly incomplete, broken state (like Vector Thrust and Kinetic Void were). Let complete mean complete, let abandoned mean abandoned.
unlabelledView post →I followed this project since closed Alpha and was very involved with it's evolution. A lightweight Ace Combat clone with cel-shaded graphics, extensive modability, a wide aircraft roster, and slightly more realistic handling and systems? It's a great idea and the makings of a great game. And during development, Alpha, Beta and release, it was. But what went wrong? First, the dev's focus on an extreme amount of obscure variants to esoteric planes nobody ever heard about before. And fictional…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A mod friendly ace-combat-like with tight controls and better post stall maneuvers that AC7 sounds great BUT it's unfinished, buggy and officially abandoned. Such a shame, do not buy this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is dead. Don't expect any content or fixes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Early access abandoned game, so the problems will likely never be fixed. Questionable win conditions, in third mission you're tasked to fly south to an escape area but get 'mission fail' if you leave the battle square. In second mission you're tasked to destroy all bombers, and yet the first time I did it there was no mission success, I was left on an empty map. Destroying the Angels bosses is literally reduced to spamming missiles, over and over. One plane ate at least 12 salvos of 4x AiM-9s…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME. UNLESS YOU DON'T CARE WHAT FREQUENT RESTARTS CAN DO TO YOUR PC. ONE: THIS GAME WILL CRASH EVERY FRIGGING TIME DURING QUICK MISSIONS. EVERY FRIGGING TIME. LUCKILY NOW YOU ARE BACK ON DESKTOP. TWO: IF THAT WASN'T AWKWARD ENOUGH.. IT LOCKS-UP YOUR PC, AND HIDES YOUR MOUSE CURSOR. THEN YOUR GAME SCREEN GOES BLACK, TRUST ME THERES NO WAY YOU CAN ALT-TAB YOURSELF OUT OF THE GAME OR ALT-F4 TO EXIT THE GAME. NOT EVEN TASK MANAGER WORKS. IT IS OVERLAID BY THE BLACK…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game needs alot of work to make it better... Although I love cel-shading, it doesn't quite fit this particular genre of games. The campaign is so boring that I can't get into the game. Something is missing here. There are some variation of aircraft and game modes but the gameplay itself is lackluster. I requested a refund because it feels both unpolished and unfinished. Play RaidersSphere4th instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get Project Wingman instead, even AC7 is better. This game was left in the dust by its devs long ago.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DEV abandoned game! Game is full of bugs. Controllers won't work. Game crashed every now and then! From review, it used to be a great game. Now it is a total mess! Would be great without the last update, as everyone said, full of bugs!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this. I really want to like this! I've given it a few chances... But I can't... Let me explain. I think the game looks fine, and the menus are functional, if basic. the little bit of voice acting I heard sounded fine. The problem I ran into came down to the interface, and the gameplay. *IF* everything works out, the combat can be fun, and reminds me of a faster pace novalogic flight sim. The game looks good enough to me. Sound design sounded fine too. That's the extent of my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is an early access title that was rushed out the door. It fails horribly at being a spiritual successor to ace combat or being a clone. The controls are sluggish and they sometimes dont work at all. The game has so many bugs and it crashes a lot. The performance is horrible. Updates are very slow. Even for being on sale for $6.24 its not worth getting. If you want a game that is even remotely fun get Ace Combat Assault Horizon on sale. Better yet find a PS2 and see if you have a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holy hell, I bought this from a totally legitimate site because I knew this would probably be bad considering previous reviews. But man, it's worse than bad. The game is unplayable even with unofficial updates and mods. The campaign missions are broken to the point where you automatically fail by following mission objectives. The few dogfights I've had were so dreadfully boring. There's barely any sense of speed or adrenaline. The soundtrack is absolute ass. Yes, I know I'm reviewing a ten…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game crashes way too often, Chalenges doesn't make sense, main campaign cant be ended as the final boss just keep crashing to the ground and locked me in the final mission indeffinitely
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Preliminary Review (rushed out because it's on sale.) It's a nice little indie attempt to emulate games like the Ace Combat series and Air Force Delta Strike (for the PS2) and in some respects, it actually surpasses those titles but it is NOT a AAA game in terms of either production values or polish. If you are going to get this game, then make sure to download this fix from the workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1114156007 Because otherwise your first campaign…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game since I'm a big fan of Ace Combat and this seemed just the thing to hold me over until AC7. Sadly it's just unplayable for me in its current state. Controls are rough and even using a gamepad and remapping everything to an Ace Combat control scheme makes them tolerable, but all aircrafts so far feel like I'm trying to fly a bus with a drag chute open. That would be passible if there was not a game breaking bug occuring for me in the very first mission which…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely love Ace Combat, Project Wingman, and anything similar, however I sadly cannot say the same for this game. Like all the other reviews say, it had good potential and a decent amount of content. It has a great plane selection, feels pretty good, has ok music, etc. But the main issue I have with it is that its hard to experience any of that content when the game crashes every 30 minutes and deletes all of your progress. I couldn't try the multiplayer and didn't try the story as I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lots of planes and little reason to use them. Many missions in the challenge mode cannot be completed or have broken mission objectives
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →no, go play Ace combat 7 or wait for Project Wingman
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Avoid like the plague. Developer abandoned the game and left it in a horrible state. I don't really care about his reasons or motives. He could have made it open source. Or hell, he could have stopped selling it. I'm sure the community would have been more than willing to finish his work or at least make the game somewhat playable. Right now it's a ridiculous buggy mess. Don't buy it. Get Ace Combat 7 and Project Wingman instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The easiest thing in the world, to have a default for an xbox 360 controller doesn't work to let you steer the plane with the thumsticks. I've tried solutions here and none of them work. How they managed to screw up the easiest part of programming in the game is beyond my comprehension. Don't waste your money if you are using an xbox based joystick. Ugh I'll stop here as my frustration will only breed bad words and be a tirade.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devs abandoned this game long ago. Last update was in August 2016. Want an Ace Combat type game once you're bored of Ace Combat 7 or want a free demo of an Ace Combat type game? Look up Project Wingman on kickstarter and download their itch.io demo. It's got some really fun modes. Ask questions in the comments of this review if you want to know anything.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BAD GAME. Lots of bugs, Mission 1 of the Campaign mode just WAAAAAAAAAY too hard or just bugged. Repeated it multiple times and no score for me. I knwo it's jsut this one guy who made it from scratch all by himself, that's quite admirable. But still, if I am allowed to say this with full honesty, YOUR GAME SUCK. Should be more better if you actaully hired some friends or atleast a professional to build your game. And too bad for me I can't refund this game because I played it for too long.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bro, how the frick do I get this game to launch on my PC?? I tried every compatibility mode, but it still doesn't work. I'm on Windows 10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead game, glitchy and janky. It's like a chinese bootleg if I am to be brutally honest.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, a abandoned game that had some potential. Not worth the time in the state its been left in....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is over priced needs mods to make it enjoyable game is not even finished do not buy it unless you want to mod the game to be like ace combat.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has absolutely AWFUL controller support so I cant even start playing it. What little I can get running constantly crashes in the loading screen, oddly enough the game instantly crashes if you press space as it is loading. All I wanted was to play with the Ace Combat 3 mods but with dualshock 4 it cannot be done.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →just a waste of time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short version: Abandoned early-access game Long version: I'm going to start this off by saying I really wanted to reccomend this game. After so many years without a new Ace Combat game (and no, Assault Horizon was not an Ace Combat game; it just had the label slapped on), I was excited when this came out of early access. Starting off with the good: this game has a massive selection of aircraft, both real and fictional. Like, it's huge. The gameplay is also good: combat flows well and the…
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this game on special for $1.50 and still feel ripped-off - its so bad Instructions are awful (almost non-existent), gameplay is boringly repetitive and missiles are almost useless.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken. I had to edit a config file just to get it to launch, and now I can't get past the first mission due to an auto fail bug. Also not a fan of the flight model as it seems speed has almost nothing to do with your turning ability. Judging by the other reviews, this has been abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To few of these games on PC so of course it gets a good review! Then I reinstalled it after a few years and it crashes on launch. We almost had a good game here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First mission. "Stick to Escort." Spawns player halfway across the map. 2 seconds. "MISSION FAILED." Well what the ♥♥♥♥ was I supposed to do? Teleport? Thank ♥♥♥♥ Ace Combat 7 exists so I don't have to play this sad pile of bug infested manure.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I know that the developer is either sick or out of commission or whatever but for all its faults this game is a honorable purchase because it gives me true freedom of air combat (most Ace Combat and HAWX nowadays stuck on playing story missions and after you done it, replaying story missions with unlocked stuff while this game, you can randomly generate air combat scenarios through quick match or create your own) Sadly the community also mostly apathetic while they can be the last hope for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really just another one of those trashy games that are flooding Steam lately
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels clunky and broken. Campaign's 1st mission just keeps failing out of nowhere.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was in love with this game ever since it came onto the store. Sadly it's abondware at this point, the dev hasn't been on since last fall and there is no sign that he'll ever be back. A plethora of bugs linger in the game that cause crashes and minor issues. I had high hopes for this game, but it looks like there will never be another official update. The modding scene for the game isn't too bad, adding new skins and aircraft but other than that nothing about this is good. I really hope that the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like some other stated here, incomplete, unpolished, early acces feel and what is wors in all that bandoned by the devs :/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is incomplete and appears to have been abandoned by the devs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know whose idea it was to make it so you have to HOLD the missile launch button to keep missile lock after firing, but it was an awful idea. Remember how fun it was in Ace Combat to pop off two missiles in quick succession and move on to the next target before they hit, enabling very rapid combo kills? You don't get that here. It's utterly boring. I don't know if maybe the later planes in the game fly more nimbly but I don't remember the first planes of any AC game flying this freaking…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the game play, the planes, and the cell shaded graphics. It just crashes on me all the time! I can't get the game to continue after a mission, so I can not progress in the campaign. In some modes I can complete the missions, but in others It glitches once I meet all objectives. If the game ran smoothly for me I would give it a 10/10.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No cockpit view with a cockpit. Not even one. That alone is a thumbs down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does not work and there is no way to fix it yourself.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible poorly handled mechanics and a lot of bugs, but has a variety of aircraft selection.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game in general is fine, a nice fictitious world and plot, good characters and voice acting, controls are OK, nice appearence, etc. However game is nonfunctional due to constant constant crashes, You will have to play each mission more than once due to this. I reached the mission 8 and I almost completed it 6 times but the game still crashes. This is just unacceptable in a commercial product, specially with its price
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