Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: Special Edition

About

This project is a fan-made remake of the 1992 classic Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. You control Indy as he tracks down Nazi agents and explores ancient mysteries using familiar point-and-click mechanics. The Special Edition swaps the original graphics for high definition digital art and adds smooth animations with updated sound effects. Since Disney and Lucasfilm stopped allowing further development in 2017, this version remains a beta build that has not seen a public release yet. The biggest takeaway is how faithfully it recreates the story of Indiana Jones hunting for Atlantean power while avoiding capture by Klaus Kerner. Players will navigate through Barnett College and New York City to meet Sophia Hapgood before facing Dr. Hans Ubermann. The team worked hard to polish the visuals without breaking the original charm, though the project status leaves its future uncertain. Many fans have followed the development logs closely because they want this version to finally launch so they can play it on PC.

Storyline

The story of Fate of Atlantis is set in 1939, on the eve of World War II. At the request of a visitor named Mr. Smith, archaeology professor and adventurer Indiana Jones tries to find a small statue in the archives of his workplace Barnett College. After Indy retrieves the horned figurine, Smith uses a key to open it, revealing a sparkling metal bead inside. Smith then pulls out a gun and escapes with the two artifacts, but he loses his coat in the process. The identity card inside reveals "Smith" to be Klaus Kerner, an agent of the Third Reich. Another pocket of the coat holds an old magazine containing an article about an expedition on which Jones collaborated with a young woman named Sophia Hapgood, who has since given up archeology to become a psychic. Fearing that she might be Kerner's next target, Indy travels to New York City in order to warn her and to find out more about the mysterious statue. There, he interrupts her lecture on the culture and downfall of Atlantis, and the two return to Sophia's apartment. They discover that Kerner ransacked her office in search of Atlantean artifacts, but Sophia says that she keeps her most valuable item, her necklace, with her. She owns another of the shiny beads, now identified as the mystical metal orichalcum, and places it in the medallion's mouth, invoking the spirit of the Atlantean god Nur-Ab-Sal. She explains that a Nazi scientist called Dr. Hans Ubermann is searching for the power of Atlantis to use it as an energy source for warfare.