Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a point-and-click adventure developed and published by LucasArts. It came out for MS-DOS, Amiga and Macintosh on 1 June 1992 in North America. Hal Barwood directed it and wrote it with Noah Falstein. Early on, players pick one of three paths: Team, with Sophia Hapgood at Indy's side, Wits, with harder puzzles, or Fists, with more fights. It was the seventh LucasArts game on the SCUMM engine, and unusually for the company, Indy can die.
A CD-ROM talkie edition followed in May 1993, and Victor Entertainment released an FM Towns version in Japan on 27 August 1993. A separate arcade-style game, The Action Game by Attention to Detail, appeared at almost the same time, while a Sega CD port was canceled.
In 2009 the adventure returned as an unlockable extra in the Wii game Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings and on Steam.1
Names and releases
| Region | Title on the box | Platform | Date | Publisher | Src |
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| NA | Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisSame date for Amiga and Macintosh. | MS-DOS | Jun 1, 1992 | LucasArts | 1 |
| NA | Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisCD-ROM 'talkie' edition with full voice acting. | MS-DOS | May 1993 | LucasArts | 1 |
| NA | Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisUnlockable extra in Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings; Europe 12 June, Australia 19 June 2009. | Wii | Jun 9, 2009 | LucasArts | 1 |
| EU | Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisSame date for Amiga and Macintosh. | MS-DOS | Jul 3, 1992 | LucasArts | 1 |
| JP | Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisFM Towns. | Other | Aug 27, 1993 | Victor Entertainment | 1 |
| WW | Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisSteam release for Windows and OS X. | Windows | Jul 8, 2009 | LucasArts | 1 |
| WW | Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisGOG release. | Linux | Oct 28, 2014 | Disney | 1 |
Box art by region
NA Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Box art © its publishers, shown to identify each release. Scans: Wikipedia.
Version differences
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AudioCD-ROM talkie (1993)
The CD-ROM edition added about 8,000 lines of voice acting and digitized sound effects; Doug Lee voiced Indy instead of Harrison Ford.1
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TextCD-ROM talkie (1993)
In the CD version, Kerner's phone call reuses a voiced line from a later conversation, so the on-screen text names "Fritz" instead of Dr. Ubermann.2
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ContentCD-ROM talkie (1993)
The two Nazi guards in the final scene scream in the floppy version but die silently on CD.2
Translations
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German Official
LucasArtsWindows · GOG releaseReleased
GOG lists German text and audio.3
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Spanish Official
LucasArtsWindows · GOG releaseReleased
GOG lists Spanish text and audio, but Spanish Wikipedia says the voices were never dubbed into Castilian Spanish.3
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French Official
LucasArtsWindows · GOG releaseReleased
GOG lists French text and audio.3
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Italian Official
LucasArtsWindows · GOG releaseReleased
GOG lists Italian, though its changelog says the Italian version is text only.3
Where to play legally today
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GOG Purchase
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Steam Purchase
How to run it today
Buy the game on GOG or Steam; both run on current systems. If you own the original DOS, Amiga, Mac or FM Towns disks, ScummVM rates its support for the game as "Excellent".
Best version
The GOG edition is the most flexible legal option: it runs through ScummVM on Windows, macOS and Linux and lists more languages than the English-only Steam release.3
Reception
By 2009 it had sold more than 1 million units, which made it LucasArts' most successful adventure game up to that point, according to Noah Falstein. Computer Gaming World and other magazines named it adventure game of the year.1
In lists
Sources
- 1en.wikipedia.org
- 2tcrf.net
- 3gog.com
- 4store.steampowered.com
- 5scummvm.org
- 6store.steampowered.com
- 7scummvm.org
Checked: 2026-10-13Text reviewed: 2026-10-13
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