- Update #8 - 29 July 2026
OVERVIEW🐼 Simplified Chinese Subtitles🏮 Traditional Chinese Subtitles 🛶 Historic Mysteries BundleNEW LOGOS FOR SIMPLIFIED AND TRADITIONAL CHINESEThe game now features subtitles in Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese!Big thanks to Rokky, who are helping us bring Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged to new audiences across Mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau.HISTORIC MYSTERIES BUNDLEWe’re bundling with the excellent Murders on Yangtze River to celebrate 🛶Journey through a beautiful ink wash landscape painting of 20th century China along the Yangtze River, as you solve the case of your brother's death. Huge congratulations to their team for recently reaching 97% Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam! Definitely well deserved. And we think if you like Broken Sword, you might really enjoy Murders on Yangtze River too. The game is curren…
- Charles Cecil in conversation with Jason Manford - 20 November 2025
Join Charles Cecil and UK comedian Jason Manford for a casual chat about Broken Sword, and so much more!
- Update #7 - 6 November 2025
OVERVIEW ✨🎮 Collection of little improvements: carried over from other editions of the game🍎🗣️ Dialogue Audio on macOS: restored & fixed🚂🥳 Syberia - Remastered: launches todayThis update is "a little" out of sync with the build! Here are the improvements you've been enjoying for over a month 😅✨🎮 COLLECTION OF LITTLE IMPROVEMENTS✏️ TutorialWhen starting a new game, the awkward initial Controls Help screen asking you to choose a single input style is now gone! The new game tutorial now dynamically responds to changes in input style, just like the rest of the game does. As soon as you use a mouse, the tutorial teaches you about clicks, and as soon as you switch to using a controller it's all about button presses, etc.Furthermore, after collecting your first item and viewing the popup inventory tutorial you will now navigate back through the Controls Help screen that you can access i…
- Update #6 - 30 May 2025
OVERVIEW 💬 4 New Text Languages: fully subtitled 🔧 Minor Improvements: because you're worth it 🎮 Interface: for better clicking ✨ Steam Deck: just some bits we noticed 🎤 Charles is giving a talk: at at TEDxNorthernQuarter 🛩️ Congratulations Rolf Saxon: he made that mission possible 💖 Overwhelmingly Positive: user rating 😱 But first, let's talk about… 💬 4 NEW TEXT LANGUAGES Thank you to everyone who's been vocal about what languages you would like to see in Broken Sword. It's not always possible to do these out of the gate, but encouraged by your passion, and by some very dedicated Broken Sword fans, we are able to announce subtitles for: 🦜 Brazilian-Portuguese 🥟 Polish 🧿 Turkish ✍️ Russian, and support for Cyrillic character fonts Please give your love to Michał "mziab" Ziąbkowski and his friends for their phenomenal work on the Polish localisation, and Gökhan Halil Düzgün an…
- Update #5 - 17 January 2025
OVERVIEW 🎧 Reprocessed Audio: English, French and Spanish speech 🖥️ Frame Pacing: for a smoother experience on various monitors 🍎 MacOS: Xbox controller support 🎮 Gamepads: triggers now adjust cursor speed Let’s get to the bit you’re probably most curious about… 🎧 REPROCESSED AUDIO We went back to the original low quality source recordings, and reprocessed tens of thousands of speech lines, using a mixture of new methods and settings best suited to language and character performance. 😱 10 thousand? Yes, per language! Inspired by your passionate feedback, and with careful guidance from native speakers, we manually reviewed each character and their different recording sessions and tried to improve quality and achieve a consistent sound across all dialogue lines. 😮 So what’s changed? For some lines, not a huge amount, and expectations were realistic. Yes, some audio files in a vacuu…
- Update #4 - 19 December 2024
OVERVIEW 💾 Original game from 1996: freshly packaged, and free to download 🃏 Trading Cards: badges, emojis, and steam profile backgrounds 📖 Epilogue: a little bonus story content 📜 Credits: some refinements to make it more enjoyable 🔧 A bit of tuning: some subtle changes to German text & speech 🎄 Steam Winter Sale 2024: and bundles with other indies we love Thank you for all your amazing support this year. We come bearing gifts... 🎁 PRESENTS! 💾 Original Game from 1996 It's back, better than ever - and free to download if you own Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged! The original English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish editions running on Windows, Mac, and Linux thanks to the brilliant ScummVM. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3361990/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_1996/ Once installed, Steam will offer you a second launch option to choose between playing…
- Steam Awards Nominations and Autumn Sale - 27 November 2024
"The characters are memorable. The story is full of twists and turns. And it's funny. Like, really funny." - PC Gamer Thanks to this wonderful community, who has emboldened us to reforge this classic narrative driven adventure game, proving once again that Broken Sword's writing has stood the test of time. We hope you'll consider nominating us for ⭐ Outstanding Story-Rich Game ⭐ in the Steam Awards 2024. And we wouldn't come to you empty handed... 🍁 We're part of the Steam Autumn Sale 🍁 Celebrating Paris in the Fall with -15% off! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_Reforged/ Already own the game? We have another little surprise! 🎵 OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK Featuring 30 tracks of original music from the game by composer Barrington Pheloung. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3303470/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_Reforged_Soundtrack/ 🗺️ DE…
- Update #3 - 11 November 2024
OVERVIEW 🎨 Graphics: less shadow, same amount of templars, and fixed a rare cropping bug 🔤 Text: another swing at typos ⚙️ UI: no more double-cursor, and minor SFX adjustments Without further ado; Let's take another look at the manuscript... GRAPHICS 👤 Performance! At the Mausoleum In a previous update we briefly touched on how shadows in Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged work, and part of that is exposing a "softness" parameter to control blur. Blurring in itself can be quite an expensive operation, and softer results require the engine to redraw, and re-blur elements over and over again. We noticed some performance issues in the mausoleum on lower end devices, which turned out to be every shadow being redrawn 35 times - a beautiful number the art team landed on! We probably should have told them that in total it should never exceed 10 pongs... The good news is that mo…
- Update #2 - 11 October 2024
OVERVIEW ✨ Gameplay: more fixed gamesaves 🎨 Graphics: fun with dust renderers 🎵 Audio: dialogue volume adjustments 🔤 Text: fixed typos thanks to your submissions ⚙️ UI: Cutscene subtitles, and Chess puzzle 🎮 STEAM DECK: more touch control stuff!!!! A small update just in time for the weekend... GAMEPLAY Last update we talked a little bit about areas in the game that could get you stuck if saved in a particularly inopportune time. We're now following up with two more areas that will now feature 100% less getting stuck. Hopefully. We think... Hover over black bars with care! 💎 Night at the Museum It's all about timing. Unless of course you, or the game, decided the best timing to create a gamesave was the very split second before George gets shot... Then it's all about regretting that terrible choice, because reloading this gamesave would load you in just in time to get shot again an…
- Update #1 - 2 October 2024
OVERVIEW ✨ Gameplay: restoring beloved exits, and getting you unstuck 🎨 Graphics: textures, cropping, and lighting 🎵 Audio: some important initial improvements 🔤 Text: subtitle shadows, typos, and updated credits ⚙️ UI: a few bits for quality of life, and a little bit of fan service 🎮 Steam Deck: tap your way through the game End of cliff notes! Beginning of mountain notes... GAMEPLAY 🔍 Operator - I need an Exit In the original Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars, some doors or exits to scenes also gave additional dialogue when explored. This was always kind of hidden, because most of the time, right-clicking to leave would just do the same as a left click. When launching Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged we got so many reports about this being missing from the game, which surprised us for two reasons; 1) How did you even find these?! & 2) They're in the game! -…
- Coming to Steam 19th September 2024 - 16 August 2024
PARIS IN THE FALL The last months of the year, at the end of the millennium. The city holds many memories for me, of music, of cafes, of love, and of death... RELEASED IN 1996, REFORGED IN 2024 Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars is celebrated by many as one of the greatest adventure games of all time. Now this adventure game is coming to Steam, substantially enhanced, and remastered with love, by the same indie dev studio. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110?utm_source=steamnews&utm_campaign=BS1Reforgereleasedate ✨ REANIMATED All character animations redrawn in high resolution, with beautiful facial expressions, and subtle body movements to make characters feel fantastically engaging, while enhancing and polishing original cutscenes, to make this the game we had always hoped that it could be, brought from 480p to stunning 4K. ✨ REPAINTED The game draws upon the existing beauty…
- Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged releases September 19 - 16 August 2024
Ready to go on an adventure? Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged from Revolution Software Ltd is ready to release on September 19. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/broken-sword-shadow-of-the-templars-reforged-releases-september-19
- Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars remaster hits over £400k on Kickstarter - 18 March 2024
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars is getting a big fancy remaster in Broken Sword: Reforged, and it's currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter by Revolution Software. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/broken-sword-shadow-of-the-templars-remaster-hits-over-400k-on-kickstarter
- Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars getting remastered, plus a whole new adventure - 5 September 2023
Revolution Software recently announced two huge bits of news for adventure game fans! Not only will there be a whole new game with Broken Sword - Parzival's Stone but Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged is coming too. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/broken-sword-shadow-of-the-templars-getting-remastered-plus-a-whole-new-adventure
