Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is a classical point & click adventure. It abandons 3D graphics and direct control which were used in the two predecessors and returns to the style of the first two games. The only major technical differences are a higher resolution and that the characters are modelled instead of drawn. Like every Broken Sword game the plot is inspired by historical events: everything centers around the painting La Maledicció. George Stobbart and Nicole Collard witness as a masked man steals La Maledicció and kills the gallery owner. Both have their motivations to solve the crime - George works for the painting's insurer, Nico is a reporter and the police are incompetent - and so they unravel a conspiracy which is somehow connected to the Gnostic Gospels.

The game uses an intelligent mouse cursor: a right click on a hotspot results in looking at the item and a left click triggers an item-specific action. Of course this is the main ingredient of the puzzles: collecting items and using them on other items in order to solve problems. On some occasions there are also logic puzzles from a zoomed-in view on an object, e.g. connecting cables of an engine in order to repair the car's horn. Another important part of the game are conversations with the various characters, some of them known from previous instalments. During the course of the game the controlled character switches between George and Nico. A help function supports players who are stuck.

The original release only included the first half of the game and the second half was patched in later. The first half is set in Paris with two trips to London. The Vita version was released as a bundle (listed here) and also with the first episode separately (listed along the Android/iOS version).

Preceded by Broken Sword: The Angel of Death
Followed By Broken Sword: Parzival’s Stone
Series Broken Sword (5)
Added March 8, 2020
Published By Revolution Software Ltd
Developed By Revolution Software Ltd
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Title screen (Windows) from mobygames.com
La Maledicció (Windows) from mobygames.com
Nicole Collard and George Stobbart, the protagonists (Windows) from mobygames.com
George at the initial crime scene (Windows) from mobygames.com
Sometimes we control Nico (Windows) from mobygames.com
We visit an artist in London (Windows) from mobygames.com
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Paris map (Windows) from mobygames.com
That's Trevor (Windows) from mobygames.com
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Hi there Mr. Putin! (Windows) from mobygames.com
George is under suspicion (Windows) from mobygames.com
Nice sketch (Windows) from mobygames.com
An old acquaintance (Windows) from mobygames.com
Hmm... something's still missing (Windows) from mobygames.com
An old couple hanging out (or so it seems) (Windows) from mobygames.com
A seagull problem (Windows) from mobygames.com
Nico tries to distract the shooter while George runs to him (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
George is near the shooter (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Talking with Marques and his daughter Eva (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Map of Catalonia (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Content of the trunk (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Variant of Caesar's cypher (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Langham kidnaps Marques (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Montserrat overview (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Langham's goons secure the station (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Nico and George are hiding behind the bush (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Oh, trapped people in the cabin (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Trying to operate in the control room (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Fuse should be fixed (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Familiar couple (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Finding Ouroboros (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Locked in the ancient chapel with Gehnen's body (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Gehnen had almost everything to leave this place (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
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Tabula Veritatis (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Strange message on the Middle Eastern map (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Decypher the message written in glyphs (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Three guns and six people (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Hammer against the machine gun (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
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Medovsky is not pleasant (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Sheers finds Nico (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
George encounters the souls of dead people in his dream (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Flying on the private plane (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Langham's goons are guarding the entrance to ancient Babylonian shrine (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Explosives are left in the bag (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Nico should stop Langham (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Nico proposes Eva to run (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
What is that? (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
The greatest moment is near (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Are you ready for the lunch or for new adventures? (Episode 2) (Windows) from mobygames.com
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Trailer

Year of Release:
2013

Genre(s):
Traditional

Graphic Style:
3D

Camera View:
Third-Person

Control Type:
Point and Click

Setting/Theme:
Fantasy

Other Tags:
Historical

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