Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (2006)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a 2006 point-and-click video game made by Revolution Software and Astraware.
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars begins with a Paris cafe bombing and an American patent lawyer named George Stobbart who happened to be sitting outside. Wry, curious, and thoroughly out of his depth, George starts pulling at the thread and finds it leads to the Knights Templar, a centuries-old conspiracy, and a cast of Europeans ranging from suspicious to outright murderous. Revolution Software's 1996 adventure distils classic point-and-click craft: hand-painted locations across Paris, Ireland, Spain, and Syria, a sharp script, and puzzles grounded in the world rather than imposed on it. This mobile port preserves the original game faithfully.
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What is Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars about?
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars begins with a Paris cafe bombing and an American patent lawyer named George Stobbart who happened to be sitting outside. Wry, curious, and thoroughly out of his depth, George starts pulling at the thread and finds it leads to the Knights Templar, a centuries-old conspiracy, and a cast of Europeans ranging from suspicious to outright murderous. Revolution Software's 1996 adventure distils classic point-and-click craft: hand-painted locations across Paris, Ireland, Spain, and Syria, a sharp script, and puzzles grounded in the world rather than imposed on it. This mobile port preserves the original game faithfully.
When was Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars released?
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars was released on 2 August 2006.
Who made Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars?
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars was made by Revolution Software and Astraware.
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The Templar mythology and a charming amateur detective working through Europe's hidden history connect naturally to Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, which covers much of the same conspiratorial ground across similar Renaissance-era locations.
Epic metal and prog rock for a centuries-old conspiracy hunt
Broken Sword sends George Stobbart from a Paris café bombing straight into a centuries-old Templar conspiracy, and its tone earns something suitably grand. These albums carry that same mythic, historically-soaked weight: The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Rust in Peace, Painkiller, In the Court of the Crimson King, IX Equilibrium and the Return of the King film score.
Secret histories and hidden conspiracies running underneath everything
George Stobbart starts Shadow of the Templars investigating a café bombing and ends up unravelling a conspiracy that predates him by centuries. That same pull, an ordinary thread that leads to a much older hidden truth, drives Sherlock Holmes's casebook, the slow-burn town mystery of FROM, and the dynastic secrets simmering under Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon and The Boys.
Games you explore as much for the place as the plot
Broken Sword built its mystery from hand-painted real locations across Paris, Ireland, Spain and Syria, treating place as much a character as George himself. These games share that same commitment to a fully realized world worth wandering: The Witcher 3, Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption 2, Grand Theft Auto V and San Andreas.