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Revision as of 18:27, 2 March 2023
For the 2010 remake, see Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut.
Developers | |
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Revolution Software | |
Publishers | |
Virgin Interactive | |
Retail re-release | Sold Out Software |
Engines | |
Original | Virtual Theatre |
Re-release | ScummVM |
Release dates | |
DOS | September 30, 1996 |
Windows | September 30, 1996 |
Mac OS (Classic) | September 30, 1996 |
Windows (ScummVM) | January 11, 2011[1] |
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) | October 18, 2012 |
Linux (ScummVM) | March 20, 2015[2] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Relaxed |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Adventure |
Art styles | Cartoon |
Themes | Detective/mystery, Europe, Middle East |
Series | Broken Sword |
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a singleplayer adventure game in the Broken Sword series.
Key points
- Released as Circle of Blood in the United States
- Can be run under ScummVM.
General information
- Developer Discord server
- Broken Sword Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | ||||
GOG.com | Bundled with Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut. Pre-configured with ScummVM. | |||
Steam | Free DLC for Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut. Pre-configured with ScummVM. |
Demos
- Demos are available from ScummVM.
Game data
Configuration file location
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\SWORD.INF |
Windows | <path-to-game>\sword1.ini[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\SAVES\ |
Windows | <path-to-game>\save[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
- ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | For DOSBox toggle with Alt+↵ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | Music, Speech, FX. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Cutscenes natively lack subtitles. See Cutscene subtitles. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
|
Royalty free audio |
Cutscene subtitles
Install the ScummVM subtitles add-on[3] |
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Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
Czech | Retail only. | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation, download. | |||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Fan translation, download. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only (Tec Toy). | |||
Russian | Retail only. | |||
Russian | Unofficial localization by «Fargus Multimedia» | |||
Spanish |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
DirectDraw | 2 | Original Windows release. |
DOS video modes | SVGA |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Windows | 64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM. | ||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Cutscenes | Smacker Video Technology |
System requirements
DOS | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 5.0 | 6.2 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 486DX2 66 MHz | Intel Pentium 60 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | 16 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 18 MB | 150 MB |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA 1 MB of VRAM |
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 486DX2 66 MHz | Intel Pentium 60 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | 16 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 18 MB | 150 MB |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 2 compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.6.8 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).