Developer MachineGames has been working on other unannounced projects alongside its latest action-adventure game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
According to the LinkedIn profile of Pete Ward, Audio Director at MachineGames, the studio has been working on more than one unannounced title besides Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Now that work on the latter has been completed, the development team is likely focusing on one of these projects.
As for what these unannounced projects are is anyone’s guess, though given MachineGames’ history with the Wolfenstein first-person shooter series, it’s possible that one of these titles is a direct sequel to Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. Given how the spin-off Wolfenstein: Young Blood, takes place 20 years after the second installment, the third game will likely feature the trio of B.J. Blazkowicz and his twin daughters Jessie and Zofia as the protagonists.
In related news, it was recently reported that the launch concurrent player count stats for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle were below MachineGames’ previous titles. According to Steam charts, the action-adventure game reached an all-time concurrent player count of 8,148 players on the platform. It’s worth noting that the game has been available day one on Game Pass and has relatively high minimum system requirements due to its mandatory use of ray tracing. It also went through an Early Access period, which can notably affect the concurrent player count for a single-player title.
That said, Microsoft and Bethesda Softworks’ other recent release, Starfield, also went through some of the aforementioned constraints, but still managed to reach an all-time concurrent player count of 24,863. Meanwhile, Xbox Game Studios’ Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has an all-time peak of 104,891 players. Furthermore, the peak concurrent player count for Indiana Jones and the Great Cicle is lower than that of MachineGames’ previous releases, including Wolfenstein: The New Order at 11,986, and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus at 16,141.
