LEGO® Indiana Jones™: The Original Adventures

For those unable to jump: change the vertical sync setting, and the game will work perfectly. This happens because the game operates using standards from that era. What a beautiful game—it’s a real gem to be able to play it today; I just finished it 100% with my twin brother. Good luck and have fun!

I still remember playing this on my vibrant red PSP 3000 back in 2009. It’s one of my favorite childhood games, taking me back to those good old days when everything was perfect.

The most important video game to me, maybe ever. An incredibly satisfying game loop, perfect level design and an amazing soundtrack make this game a timeless classic.

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Even though I own almost every LEGO game, my only real experience with the series before this was the LEGO Star Wars/LOTR/Marvel games. I jumped into LEGO Indiana Jones pretty excited, but within the first five hours I was honestly ready to quit. I just had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. The spots on the map that needed a specific character ability were harder for me to recognize compared to LEGO Star Wars. The puzzles didn’t make sense to me, and I couldn’t really wrap my head around the different character abilities.

By the time I finished The Temple of Doom section, I was very close to giving up on the game. Still, I stuck with it, and I’m glad I did. Things finally started to click for me once I got into the Last Crusade maps. I began to understand what each character could do and where they were meant to be used, and the whole experience started to feel much smoother.

One thing that was a bit disappointing for me personally is that I ended up finding Indiana Jones himself to be the least fun or useful character to play. I found myself getting more use out of characters with shovels because of their longer melee reach. The female characters felt great to use thanks to their high jumps, and the bazooka guy in free play ended up being way more useful and fun for me than Indy.

Gripes and my early struggle to connect with the gameplay aside, I still enjoyed my time getting to 100%, and I do recommend the game.

I also ran into one technical issue along the way on my Windows 11 PC. I had to run the game in Windows 98 compatibility mode to get the Pankot Secrets level to work properly. On the Steam Deck though, the game worked perfectly and I didn’t run into any issues at all.

i just spent 12 hours pulling my hair out for not being able to complete jumps trying to get artifacts and parcels. TURN ON VSYNC. the game is unplayable with out it all characters are bugged and it is not set by default, also change your resolution

To fix the jumping glitch, TURN VSYNC ON!!!!
Thank you to the Steam review that mentioned this and saved me from hurling my screen out of the window.