Todd Howard was trying to pitch Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for years, but even the devs don't know if he ever wanted to direct it himself at Bethesda: "I don't know if he had actually thought about it"

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It's no secret that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the result of Todd Howard's years-long campaign to get his dream game made. With their expertise in Nazi-killing, narrative-heavy shooters like Wolfenstein, developer MachineGames turned out to be a perfect fit for the concept, but one question has remained ever since the game was announced. Did Howard ever want to make the game himself at Bethesda Game Studios?

"I don't think so," MachineGames studio head Jerk Gustafsson says in a new documentary from Noclip. "Maybe he... I don't know if he had actually thought about it. I actually haven't talked to him about this specific thing, but I don't think he felt that the studio was the right studio for it considering their games they do are rather different. The games that we have done over the years showed him we would probably be a good fit for it."