Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

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• Patch Notes·29 Jul 2026Official

  Update #8

  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 currently 40% off, with an additional 10% if you grab our Historic Mysteries Bundle on Steam.JOIN US ON DISCORDdiscord.gg/revolutionsoftware And as always, please join us on Discord if you haven't yet! We always love reading from all of you, and one of the best ways to get in touch with us directly is through Discord! Whether your reason for joining is to let us know about issues with our games, finding community with fellow adventure gamers, or simply to say hi - we'd love to meet you ❤️ Hope you enjoy this update, and can't wait to read all of your thoughts :)Love from us all at Revolution
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• Announcements·20 Nov 2025Official

  Charles Cecil in conversation with Jason Manford

  Join Charles Cecil and UK comedian Jason Manford for a casual chat about Broken Sword, and so much more!
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• Patch Notes·6 Nov 2025Official

  Update #7

  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 it from, that way you know where it lives if you need to find it again.☎️ Who you gonna call? Mostly encountered by speed-runners and those new to the game! Whenever you interact with a telephone you get to pick a contact off the envelope that George scribbled phone numbers onto, based on who you already interacted with! But if when the game starts, you dash away from the crime scene, get escorted back to the Café, don't talk to Nico, run away again, and go to the Police Station to use the telephone, there would have been nothing on that envelope yet. So all you see is a blank envelope, no visual back button, and no UI standard to fall back to from the original game. While you weren't stuck, it sure felt like that! Now when that happens, the auto-hint system will guide you out of there!🔤 Text CorrectionsNumerous improvements to localised game text, especially in French! Huge thanks to @imaxm on Discord for their extensive report and excellent suggestions. Here are the Greatest Hits:Spelling Eiffel Tower correctly in French. In a game set in Paris 🗼These absolute beauties in the intro movie (t...
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• Patch Notes·30 May 2025Official

  Update #6

  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 and his team for the extraordinary work they put into Turkish. For full credits of the localisers, who did such a wonderful job, please go see the updated credits in-game! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44575168/da9f2ddd6c70e9c51b7d7fdac83f6969517fffc7.png 🔧 MINOR IMPROVEMENTS Because we listen, and we do judge (ourselves, for not finding these sooner!) ♟️ Check Mate for this bug The chess puzzle at the Villa de Vasconcellos was designed on a 5x5 checkerboard, rather than the more traditional 8x8 grid. So not 'real' chess, but chess adjacent, we would argue. Nevertheless, the reforged UI uses standard notation to label each position on the board, so for the first time - you could hover over each spot to reveal what square you were moving your chess piece to: A3, B3, C3, D3, or E3. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44575168/9a1da144a366663d42b5489e2bd425aac6f99816.png So what in the fresh hell is this?! King to A7?! Low and behold, seems like the chessboard labels had gotten the 'smart copy' treatment in the localisation sheet, going up one per language - all the way to A9 in Spanish! No bueno! No new languages were harmed i...
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• Patch Notes·17 Jan 2025Official

  Update #5

  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 vacuum could be pushed further, but with diminishing returns, and at the cost of sounding really incongruent with the rest of the cast. However, overall background noise has been reduced and significant distortions have been addressed, for a cleaner more balanced sound that best preserves the nuances of the original actor performances. It might not sound drastically different in some cases, but it should sound a lot more enjoyable now, especially over longer gaming sessions with headphones on. 🤓 Some interesting things that factored into this process While the original voice lines from 1996 were recorded at 44kHz, they had to be reduced to 11kHz because of memory limitations at that time. That doesn’t sound like a big difference, but it sounds like a big difference! At least twice a day someone will perform a flawless 🎶Hello George, what can I do for you now 🎶 in the office. If you try to routinely compare thousands of audio files in a collaborative database your browser freezes. This is a clever design that forces you to take breaks before everything starts sounding the same 🙃 ❤️ Conclusion All ...
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