- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle supports Xbox cloud saves on Steam.While some Xbox games have supported cross-saves and carrying over progress some progress, these titles were usually co-op or online-oriented.It’s possible we could see Xbox cloud saves as a standard feature for future games.
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is now available in early access for Premium Edition buyers. While I played Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames’ whip-cracking adventure on Xbox Series X, PC players hopping into early access through Steam are noticing a special feature.
- As shared by @MauroNL3 on X (Twitter), Indiana Jones and the Great Circle allows players on Steam to use Xbox Cloud save games, effectively allowing players to go back and forth between their Xbox consoles and the PC version on Steam without the issue of losing progress.
- Now obviously, Xbox games on PC through the Xbox app already support shared Cloud saves through Xbox Play Anywhere, and some online-focused Xbox games have already supported universal saves across console and Steam, such as Obsidian Entertainment’s Grounded or Rare’s Sea of Thieves. A single-player game getting this as a dedicated feature on Steam is new however, and it makes me wonder if this will be standard moving forward.
This is an awesome addition, and it’s certainly something that I hope will be made standard in the future.
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I shuffle back and forth between my gaming PC and my Xbox Series X all the time for work. While it’s not necessarily a big deal for some games on Steam, not having my progress carry over for larger first-party titles like Starfield can be frustrating if I just want to play for a bit or capture a particular screenshot. If this is a standardized feature for future first-party games like Avowed and DOOM: The Dark Ages, I’ll certainly be using it.
Who knows where else this kind of feature could lead? Cross-buy seems extraordinarily unlikely, but deeper Xbox integration on Steam could happen, with additional features that make the overall platform consistent no matter where you’re playing.