John Payne and the Infernal Machine is a action-adventure video game by Rocksteady released in late 2018. The first 3D installment in the series, its gameplay focuses on solving puzzles, fighting enemies, and various platforming sections. The story told is set between the events of Journey to El Dorado and John Payne: Darkest Times, taking one year both before and after the films, and puts the eponymous protagonist, the adventurer John Payne, against the Ku Klux Klan. In a race for a mythological Babylonian power source, he joins forces with Walter Mill and collects four pieces of the Infernal Machine, a biblical device that allegedly opens a portal to another dimension.