Beautiful hand-painted art
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“The game is gorgeous. Seriously, it is one gigantic screentshot, with the beautifully drawn characters and locations”
Steam review · 16.2 h played ↗
Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 89%Very Positive · 89%Revolution Software Ltd2013Point & Click · Investigation · Adventure
−66%$24.99$8.49
US Steam price, checked 1 h ago
The verdict
A charming, nostalgic 2D point-and-click mystery with gorgeous backgrounds and good voice acting, but slow and with moon-logic puzzles and weak writing. Skip it if you want pace.
Great for
Broken Sword fans and classic point-and-click lovers who like a relaxed, story-driven mystery with hints available
Main risk
Slow walking and dialogue, illogical late-game puzzles, and writing weaker than the first two games
What players love
Engaging story and lovable George and Nico
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“A wonderful, well-built, deep plot in the style of 80s and 90s thrillers, in the best sense.”
Steam review · translated · 18.2 h played ↗
Faithful return to the 2D roots of 1 and 2
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“Finally they dropped that ugly looking 3D graphics and annoying controls and got back to the roots.”
Steam review · 18.1 h played ↗
Mostly logical, fair puzzles
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The difficulty of them are perfect, as no puzzle can be solved instantly, and no puzzle will make you pull your hair out and bring up a guide.”
Steam review · 12.8 h played ↗
Excellent voice acting and music
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“The quality of the voice acting is thankfully superb, but it is the animation that has blown me away.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗
Helpful progressive hint system
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“I love the little hint option, I'll try to solve the puzzles, but I'm just as happy getting the story moving”
Steam review · 6.3 h played ↗
What players complain about
Weak, boring writing and humor
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews
“There is a good story in there somewhere, but it's ruined by some truly appalling writing.”
Steam review · 9.2 h played ↗
Illogical, moon-logic puzzles
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“What to think of a game that says "that only works in the movies" when you try to open a lock with a paperclip but then (spoiler) happily makes you stick the clip to a cockroach”
Steam review · 19.7 h played ↗
Very slow walking, animations and dialogue
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“The pace is extremely plodding, mainly because the characters walk so slowly and they also converse extremely slowly.”
Steam review · 10.3 h played ↗
Poor 3D character models and animation
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“The characters have this awful [b]3D cartoon[/b] style look to them and often gave me "uncanny valley" vibes”
Steam review · 10.7 h played ↗
Crashes and freezes, especially on scene changes
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“The game crashes for me on scene change every 10-15 minutes.”
Steam review · 18.9 h played ↗
Progress-blocking bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“I apparently encountered a bug that is impossible to overcome.. at 81% of the game.”
Steam review · 26.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: PlayableController support7 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista
Processor1.4 GHz
Memory1 GB RAM
Graphics256 MB
Storage7 GB available space
OSWindows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista
Processor1.4 GHz
Memory1 GB RAM
Graphics256 MB
Storage7 GB available space
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