Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse

From multi-award winning Revolution Software comes the latest explosive episode in this classic series. Playing as intrepid American George Stobbart and sassy French journalist Nico Collard, you find yourself on the trail of a stolen painting – and a murderous conspiracy...

Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse is a 1990's, female protagonist and adventure game developed and published by Revolution Software Ltd.
Released on December 04th 2013 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 7 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Polish.

It has received 2,597 reviews of which 2,305 were positive and 292 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.59€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse into these genres:

1990's Female Protagonist Adventure Point & Click Investigation Hand-drawn Cartoony Puzzle Story Rich Mystery Conspiracy Historical Detective Funny Immersive Indie Singleplayer Exploration Drama Cinematic

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista
Processor: 1.4 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB
Storage: 7 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OSX 10.6.8
Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 7 GB available space

Linux

Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB
Storage: 7 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

Broken Sword 5 absolutely captures the original style and sentiment of the first two games in the series. It’s fantastic to step back into the shoes of George Stobbart and embark on yet another epic adventure. The environments are stunning, and while I feel that cel-shaded 3D characters immediately look outdated, I understand the cost-efficient style choice for a modern game. Perhaps one day, classic cinematic 2D animation will return to the franchise—one can only hope. Most of the puzzles make sense and feel fair. However, there were a few very challenging ones that I couldn't solve without resorting to the hint guide. I instantly regretted this choice, blaming myself for not taking the time to work through them on my own. Unfortunately, these artifact type puzzles, especially near the end, just felt too difficult and tedious. Overall, the game is a fantastic addition to the franchise, and I hope there’s more to come!

Aug. 2024

The game could have been more exploratory. While the story/narrative moves along nicely, from a gameplay standpoint: you’re always just working with 1-2 screens to advance to the next part of the game. There were times where I thought I had tried everything and got stuck, to find out from a walkthrough that I had to click on something ‘again’ because now that I was playing a different character I could view it in more detail. ..little irrational annoying things like that which stalled my progress. There’s the occasional annoying logic puzzle. I detest these and see them as a lazy way of creating gameplay due to a lack of creativity, but most games in the genre contain some of these, it’s apparent that some people like this stuff, so whatever. Some of the more traditional ‘use items to solve puzzles’ (which is more my style, feels more authentic) had some pretty upside-down, moon logic solutions, so I did end up consulting a walkthrough numerous times. There’s a 1-3 second delay when clicking on someone to talk/interact, almost like it is taking a while to load the correct audio file. This was noticeable and mildly irritating, not as problematic as I imagined. I hope they get that smoothened out for their next game (if it ever comes out). It would be nice if double clicking would allow you to run rather than walk, a QoL feature in most other point & click games. Fortunately you are seldom travelling very long distances. The audio mixing could have been better, there were numerous times where I had to turn the volume up because some dialogue was quieter than others (phone calls for instance), this led to me just leaving the game running slightly louder than I'd have liked so I would not miss anything. Despite a number of irritations and needing to look at walkthroughs, I enjoyed the game. It is faithful to the Broken Sword series. Dialogue feels nostalgically 90's-ish and the story moves along in the same manner as the traditional games, where a mystery takes a turn toward historical conspiracies that has you exploring some ancient and exotic locales. I suppose I have one gripe with the ending where it goes supernatural, but I won't spoil more than that, it's more of a nitpick.

May 2024

Alright, I finally finished the last (although I see 6 is in the works) of the series. This one goes back to the strong roots of a Point n' Click. You can once again skip dialogues. Can't sprint or walk faster however (not as cumbersome as you'd think tho). All in all, I'd say, play 1, 2, and 5. End w 3 and 4 if at all, w 4 being the worst.

Jan. 2024

Fantastic Game! This has to be in my top 5 adventure games of all time! I think this game is so underrated and deserves much more praise than it gets. The story, graphics & puzzles are all top notch and make this game a must-play if you are a fan of the Broken Sword series and a fan of point & click games in general! I would highly recommend playing this game is you are an adventure game lover.

Jan. 2024

It's ok. Puzzles are fine and don't take very long. The hint mechanism works great. BUT.. this is sooo slow. Every action needs like2-3 seconds pause. It's ennerving to wait. Every trial and error is punished by a unreasonable wait time.

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-80% 22.99€ 4.59€

8.5

2,305

292

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Developer

Revolution Software Ltd

Publisher

Revolution Software Ltd

Release 04 Dec 2013

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