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…
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is an adventure developed by Revolution Software, released 4 December 2013 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. The main story takes about 14.1 hrs to finish.
What Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is an adventure game developed by Revolution Software and released in 2013. It was published by Deep Silver. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Virtual Theatre.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story plot 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.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 35 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 94 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 256 MB. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB.
What it launched against
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse launched on 4 December 2013, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, The Walking Dead: Season 2 and The Walking Dead: Season Two. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, The Walking Dead: Season 2, The Walking Dead: Season Two.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Characters
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