An Interesting Feature Revealed
Early access is now available for Premium Edition purchasers. While playing Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames’ whip-throwing adventure on Xbox Series X, PC gamers accessing early access via Steam are becoming aware of a special feature.
MauroNL3 Twitter: “You can now use Xbox Cloud Saved Games when playing the Steam version of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The game supports Play Anywhere, but it seems this is a new feature which enables you to use a single save file across Windows Store, Xbox & Steam.”
As shared by @MauroNL3 on X (Twitter), Indiana Jones and the Great Circle allows players on Steam to save the Xbox Cloud game, allowing players to play between Xbox consoles and the PC version on Steam without losing progress.
Obviously, Xbox games on PC already support Cloud saves shared through Xbox Play Anywhere within the Xbox app, and some online-focused Xbox games like Obsidian Entertainment’s Grounded or Rare’s Sea of Thieves already support universal saves on console and Steam. However, it is new for a single-player game to have this feature on Steam, and it remains to be seen whether this will become the standard going forward.
Will cloud saves be standard for Xbox and Steam games in the future?
While it’s not a big deal for some games on Steam, it’s frustrating when I just want to play a bit or capture a specific screenshot and my progress doesn’t continue in larger first-party games like Starfield. If this feature is implemented in future first-party games like Avowed and DOOM: The Dark Ages, then surely all players will realise that this feature is indispensable.
Cross-buy doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, but there will be deeper Xbox integration on Steam with additional features that make the overall platform consistent no matter where you play.
