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 Reforged or the 1996 original. You can also change this setting in the Steam client: game Properties > General > Selected Launch Option. Let us know if you need any help!
🃏 Trading Cards
We got so many messages about Trading Cards!
15 character cards, 10 emoticons and 8 profile backgrounds are now live for you to collect as you play.
We don't want to say much more than that, but we really hope you like them!
📖 Story Epilogue
Perhaps you made use of the Game Help screen during your adventure and perhaps you didn't. Well, the Story So Far recap feature has been fleshed out to fully cover the end of the story and beyond, unlocked after completing the game. Ever wondered what happened next? Andy did, and he worked really hard on making this fan dedicated feature a reality. We're incredibly curious to see what you think...
🧦 STOCKING FILLERS
📜 Credits
According to Andy, the transition from the final dramatic cutscene at the end of the game, to the scrolling credits "was a right old scruffy pickle" - for those of us not fluent in British Programmer it roughly translates to "not well implemented". Highlighting modern features such as: a cursor that behaves itself, backgrounds that fade in nicely, and music that starts without a fight. Glamorous.
Makes you wonder what else he snuck in there...
🔧 A bit of tuning
Thanks to yet more amazing community feedback, and some more diligent work from our Localisation QA (LQA for the cool kids), we were able to make a few changes where possible. We have to always work within the structure of how this game was originally recorded, so please don't expect any miracles. But please know, that just because we're not releasing big language updates, doesn't mean were nor fiercely exploring them behind the scenes. For now this means we got to correct some minor text issues and squash some German specific language bugs!
🖱️ Browse the Recap Screen with the mouse wheel!
Also known as end of barrel.
🎄 STEAM WINTER SALE
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged is currently on sale at it's biggest ever discount since launching earlier this year! Furthermore, our Deluxe Edition is now Complete The Set meaning that if you already own the game, you can also benefit from Winter Sale discounts on our recently released Soundtrack, and Game Manual and Travel Guide.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47222/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_Reforged_Deluxe_Edition/
✨ Collaborative Bundles with Friends 💖
Steam has this really cool feature that allows us to team up and offer additional, extra discounts on other games that we love! We hope you'll love them too! If there are more games you want to see us bundle with in the future, let us (and them!) know!!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47854/Gorgeous_Adventures/
PRIM is a creepy, but really cute point and click adventure game, with beautiful hand drawn art that really impressed us. The story follows Prim, a girl who loses her mother and in turn discovers that she is in fact the Grim Reaper's daughter. Instant Classic Energy if you ask us!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/48561/Broken_in_Two/
Broken Age is a timeless coming of age story about two teenagers who find themselves in similar situations, but radically different worlds. Switch between their stories, and help them take control of their lives and the unexpected adventures that follow. A game with heart, and the dulcet tones of Elijah Wood (?!?!)
Merry Christmas everyone!
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As always we look forward to hearing your thoughts on this update!