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[Dazraell]

Coming early 2026 for PC and consoles

Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror – Reforged is an extensively enhanced version of the multi-award winning, all-time classic game.

While investigating a ruthless drug gang, journalist Nico Collard unexpectedly comes across an ancient artifact. Little can she know that the ornately carved obsidian stone will lead her, and her adventuring companion George Stobbart, into a mysterious escapade of intrigue and deceit, in which they must overcome powerful forces and antagonists who will stop at nothing to fulfill their evil ambitions.

Torment and terror, sacrificial rituals, and bloody massacre is unearthed beneath a veil of Mayan mystery. Kidnap, stolen treasure, astronomy, and deadly drug baron are the least of the duo's worries, as divine forces threaten to annihilate mankind! Nerve, cunning, and guile are essential in order to conquer in this compelling adventure, guaranteed to leave you with an aching brain and a beating heart. Are you up to the challenge?

Reforged Features

• Contemporary Adventure Gameplay – Discover the joy of a modern adventure style or rediscover the nostalgia of classic point-and-click—the choice is yours, as you solve puzzles, gather clues, and interact with a colorful cast of characters. Immerse yourself in an intuitive and engaging gameplay experience.
• 4K Remastered Visuals – Experience the magic of the original game with enhanced high-definition graphics, bringing the picturesque landscapes, detailed characters, and intricate environments to life in beautiful 4K for the first time ever.
• Enhanced Audio – Immerse your ears in the enhanced audio as Revolution delivers the finest, most stunning version of George and Nico's second adventure to date, including the incredible soundtrack from world-acclaimed composer Barrington Pheloung.
• Bonus Content – Never-seen-before dialogue restored from original scripts, plus secrets to unlock on game completion…

Choose Your Experience

• Graphics Toggle – Seamlessly hot swap between original and Reforged graphics at any time!
• Game Help – Integrated story recap, on demand hints, or automatic highlights as you play.
• Mouse / Controller / Touchscreen – Switch between three fully supported control styles.
• Streamlined Interface – Option Exhaustion, Fast Exit, Walk Assist, and Subtitle features, all configurable to your taste.
• Autosave / Manual Save – Progress is safely stored automatically but you can also bookmark and relive your favorite moments too.
• Dialogue History – Reread the previous conversation to never miss a word.

 

[Yoshichan]

How many times has this game been remastered, remade, reforged?

 

[Yoshichan]

Compared one of the animated scenes

 

[Skifi28]

Nice, bring them all, I've never played Any of them.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I enjoyed the first reforged on PC. Nice old school point and click adventure.
I had never played it before.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

My favourite Broken sword!
Fuck yeah!

 

[Dazraell]

How many times has this game been remastered, remade, reforged?

Once, with the remastered version released back in 2010

I mean, it make sense they're reforging the second game considering they've developed the framework and all of the tools for Shadows of the Templars Reforged and both BS1 and BS2 happened to shared the same engine

 

[The Cockatrice]

How many times has this game been remastered, remade, reforged?

This is a remake not a remaster and the first game's remake was excellent.

Day one.

 

[NuclearDiarrhea]

I played the demo on PS1 back in the day. The dock section with the fat guy, Twenty and my exotic panties. Good times. I'll buy.

 

[damidu]

nicee, loved the first reforged, these games hold up extremely well still.
and new art was a treat, only issue was the archaic quality of the voice track

 

[winjer]

That looks very good.

 

[Thief1987]

Nice, the first one(reforged) is very good.

 

[Fret Runner]

Can remember if it was this one or the first one but I remember a PS1 demo disc having a section from one of them. A dock section where you had to distract a guard and his dog.

God damn, remembering that got me in the nostalgia feels.

 

[sncvsrtoip]

Compared one of the animated scenes

uh, looks worse

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

I'm ready to support Charles Cecil any day of the week, if I'm honest.

 

[Mr Hyde]

One of my favorite games of all time. What a time to be alive!

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

Compared one of the animated scenes

Both are fine, IMO. Hard to say which one is definitively better. The remaster does have that mid-90's charm.

 

[amigastar]

Yes!! I've been waiting for that, played the First reforged first time in my life and loved it. Fantastic atmosphere.

 

[xrnzaaas]

This is great news, I've done several playthroughs of several versions of Broken Sword 1, but never replayed Broken Sword 2 since the original release. I'll even try to get a physical copy assuming it's not going to be a very limited batch.

 

[emivita]

Kickstarter page coming soon. Since I missed it for the first game, I'd pay any tier that includes both 1 and 2 in a special collector's case. Just do it!

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I'm interested in this. I still need to play the remaster of the first game though

 

[kat_on_the_roof]

Im happy. I like the classic point and click adventures.

 

[amigastar]

Im happy. I like the classic point and click adventures.

Yeah, i love them too since the early 90s. I still remember Monkey Island the opening, it's really magical, lol.

 

[yogaflame]

Nice. OG. I love the Broken sword series. I love point and click games like Myst, and Agatha Christie.

 

[kat_on_the_roof]

Yeah, i love them too since the early 90s. I still remember Monkey Island the opening, it's really magical, lol.

I was too young to play games back then, but I have serious point and click nostalgia without having lived through that era myself.

 

[TGO]

Compared one of the animated scenes

I actually prefer the original, the old one the character's actually blend into the scene, the new one looks like a overlay.
And the art style is better in the original too.

 

[Dazraell]

There is an interesting interview where Cecil shared some things about the remaster and gave a quite disappointing update on Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone

The first quote confirms the launch platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch

So fans might have to wait a little longer for a brand new Broken Sword story, but not very long to delve into an updated version of The Smoking Mirror, which will be released for PC (Windows, Mac, Linux) and consoles (PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Series X|S, Nintendo Switch) at some point in "early 2026" – depending partly, no doubt, on the success of the upcoming Kickstarter.

There are also some bad news tied to Broken Sword 6. Looks like publisher Revolution had lined up for Parzival's Stone decided to pull back and game is not in active development anymore

What does this all mean for development of the new Broken Sword game, Parzival's Stone, which Charles revealed to me two years ago at gamescom? Well, it seems like it's currently on a bit of a hiatus due to the hardships faced by the whole industry of late. "It was being supported by one of the publishers … but they've pulled back," Charles told me. "We're working on it, but very much part time, so I wouldn't like to even hazard a guess on when it might be finished."

 

[emivita]

There is an interesting interview where Cecil shared some things about the remaster and gave a quite disappointing update on Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone

The first quote confirms the launch platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch


There are also some bad news tied to Broken Sword 6. Looks like publisher Revolution had lined up for Parzival's Stone decided to pull back and game is not in active development anymore

I wonder if the publisher that pulled back BS6 was Microids. Unfortunately classic 2D p&c adventures don't sell anymore.

 

[The Cockatrice]

There is an interesting interview where Cecil shared some things about the remaster and gave a quite disappointing update on Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone

The first quote confirms the launch platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch


There are also some bad news tied to Broken Sword 6. Looks like publisher Revolution had lined up for Parzival's Stone decided to pull back and game is not in active development anymore

They should just kickstart it, they have a lot of fans.

 

[Dazraell]

I wonder if the publisher that pulled back BS6 was Microids. Unfortunately classic 2D p&c adventures don't sell anymore.

This was my first thought as well. I've recently read an article about Pendulo Studios closure due to poor performance of their recent games which were also published by Microids. That quote about "hardships of industry" was something I immediately associated with it. I've tried to look it up but Revolution never announced this publisher publicly

They should just kickstart it, they have a lot of fans.

I wouldn't be surprised if this might be a case. I mean, they even did it for Broken Sword 5. But I guess the difference is that BS5 was kickstarted during its golden era where projects were hitting records after records. Nowadays crowdfunding campaigns aren't as successful as they were 10 years ago. Well, hopefully the remasters will sell enough so they could fund the game themselves and Kickstarter would just be an additional funding to make the game better

 

[Just_one]

Day 1

 

[JimmyRustler]

Hmm... Unlike the first one (which I loved) I remember hating part 2 and thinking that it was the worst of the series. Might give it another chance with the Remake though.

 

[CrimsonTide]

This the one with the goat puzzle? the animal goat, not greatest of all time.

I recall it being so impossible unless you spent hours just clicking away. Which is kind of how many point and click games were I guess.

 

[amigastar]

This the one with the goat puzzle? the animal goat, not greatest of all time.

I recall it being so impossible unless you spent hours just clicking away. Which is kind of how many point and click games were I guess.

I think Goat puzzle was the first Broken Sword.

 

[CrimsonTide]

I think Goat puzzle was the first Broken Sword.

Think I quit after that lol It was next level cryptic. Had nothing to do with using your brain. That I recall anyhow

 

[MayauMiao]

Compared one of the animated scenes

My reaction to the old one:

 

[amigastar]

Think I quit after that lol It was next level cryptic. Had nothing to do with using your brain. That I recall anyhow

That's too bad because the whole game is awesome, i guess you hadn't internet when you played it back then?

 

[CrimsonTide]

That's too bad because the whole game is awesome, i guess you hadn't internet when you played it back then?

In 1996 I think I had WebTV lol I did have a PC, but don't THINK we had AOL at that time. It was a PC my dad built, a 486dx 16mb Ram, 250mb HDD and Windows 3.1.

 

[emivita]

This was my first thought as well. I've recently read an article about Pendulo Studios closure

Their Runaway games were fantastic. And I loved Hollywood Monsters, even recently replayed it.

I am afraid Daedalic Entertainment will be next to close after the Gollum game fiasco, and they made a lot of bangers in the past. The industry crisis is undeniable.

 

[Thief1987]

I am afraid Daedalic Entertainment will be next to close after the Gollum game fiasco, and they made a lot of bangers in the past. The industry crisis is undeniable.

? They already closed their development branch few years ago, they are purely publisher now.

 

[amigastar]

So imdb.com says it comes out April 1st, it may be a placeholder but it shouldn't be so long away.
Never played the 2nd part but the first Reforged was awesome.
I love Point n' Click adventures since i was a kid.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I kinda lost interest when I learned they had AI assist them in making HD backgrounds for the first Reforged Broken Sword (as in generate new graphics to be tweaked by humans). Supposedly having them completely hand-made would be too expensive and the project wouldn't turn profit, but you do explain that when you have the rest of the game ready and the changes are mostly about new visuals?

 

[Dazraell]

So imdb.com says it comes out April 1st, it may be a placeholder but it shouldn't be so long away.
Never played the 2nd part but the first Reforged was awesome.
I love Point n' Click adventures since i was a kid.

Seems like it's a placeholder date, I looked at their Steam page and Discord and they haven't announced anything yet

I kinda lost interest when I learned they had AI assist them in making HD backgrounds for the first Reforged Broken Sword (as in generate new graphics to be tweaked by humans). Supposedly having them completely hand-made would be too expensive and the project wouldn't turn profit, but you do explain that when you have the rest of the game ready and the changes are mostly about new visuals?

It's the other way around. Looks like they tried to use it to some degree, but they weren't happy with results and they basically scrapped it and consider it as an expensive mistake they pursued. Here's the full article, excerpt below

"Everybody had sent us AI-generated images of the screens and said 'You've got to use AI,'" recalls Cecil, who says the idea was to upscale the original 1996 Broken Sword backgrounds to 4K using generative AI, and then human artists would add the finishing touches."

But the result was not enormously satisfactory, because there wasn't really enough detail," says Cecil. "It just wasn't appropriate for us." Instead, Revolution ended up redrawing the backgrounds from scratch, using the original artwork as a reference.

"It took more time, but you got better results," he says. "So for Broken Sword 2, we've just done that, we are not using any sort of form of AI as far as the backgrounds and as far as the character sprites [are concerned]."

 

[amigastar]

Seems like it's a placeholder date, I looked at their Steam page and Discord and they haven't announced anything yet


It's the other way around. Looks like they tried to use it to some degree, but they weren't happy with results and they basically scrapped it and consider it as an expensive mistake they pursued. Here's the full article, excerpt below

That's super cool they not using ai for development. Gonna support them for sure.

 

[s_mirage]

Think I quit after that lol It was next level cryptic. Had nothing to do with using your brain. That I recall anyhow

Yeah, it was logical, unlike many point and click puzzles, but it relied on a mechanic that hadn't been introduced or even hinted at in-game. It was a bit like the Sonic 3 "Barrel of Doom" in that regard: simple really, but you didn't try it because you didn't know it could be an option.

 

[rkofan87]

 

[Nocty]

I kinda lost interest when I learned they had AI assist them in making HD backgrounds for the first Reforged Broken Sword (as in generate new graphics to be tweaked by humans). Supposedly having them completely hand-made would be too expensive and the project wouldn't turn profit, but you do explain that when you have the rest of the game ready and the changes are mostly about new visuals?

going forward it will be common practice in 90% of texture creation to use AI.

It's one of the things that can reduce development cost and time with very little difference noticable to the end user. It's just the way it is

 

[Eesha]

I actually prefer the original, the old one the character's actually blend into the scene, the new one looks like a overlay.
And the art style is better in the original too.

the new one looks serviceable, it has lost some of the old charm, but not that bad.

At least is not like that hot turd of Return to Monkey Island remake

 

[Brigandier]

I'll be in day 1 for Smoking Mirror I really enjoyed replaying BS1 they did a great job with reforged.

Hopefully see something regarding Parzivals stone soon!!

 

[damidu]

if they have to use ai i hope they do something with the voices at least instead of graphics.
the recordings from 90s were abysmal on the first remake