Broken Sword 5 – Episode 1 Now Available Via Good Old Games & Steam

Get ready to embark on George and Nico’s biggest adventure yet with Broken Sword 5 – The Serpent’s Curse. Which, has released today via GoG and Steam. This chapter, which has been faithfully recreated in the true Broken Sword spirit, with help of the key members from the original Broken Sword team and with the layout artists from studios such as Disney, Aardman, and Universal have created sumptuous, classically drawn backgrounds. The rich, lavish HD art, evolves the art-style so loved in the previous Broken Sword games.

“This has been a labour of love not just for us here at Revolution but the entire Broken Sword community too,” says Charles Cecil, founder, Revolution Software. “We have been privileged to be able to make the game we’ve wanted to thanks to the generous support of our Kickstarter supporters, who really have given us the freedom to take the series to new heights.”

When a mysterious painting is stolen during an armed raid on a Paris gallery, George Stobbart and Nico Collard are thrown, seemingly by chance, into the investigation together. From Paris to London and beyond, the trail becomes a race against time as dark forces from Europe’s turbulent past are woken from their slumber. Broken Sword characters old and new are encountered – but who can George and Nico trust? The journey they are on reveals a conspiracy as old as the written word, whose ancient heresies will cause innocent blood to spill once more…