Broken Sword

Wine is not an emulator.

It supports an extensive library of over 325 adventure games, including the classic titles, icons from LucasArts, Sierra Online, Revolution Software, Saiyan Inc, and Westwood Studios, alongside groundbreaking games like Monkey Island series, Broken Sword, Myst, Blade Runner, and numerous other titles.

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And obviously Riven, Riven's soundtrack was a big inspiration in a lot of ways as well.

But then I ended up finding inspirations from Broken Sword, the Broken Sword point-and-click adventure games, and various other games as well.

Schism, which is another kind of Myst-like game that inspired me.

Hunt Zimmer, Blade Runner, theme tunes, and even movie soundtracks, you know, like Waterworld and... and other kind of movies inspired Blade Runner to a point you know not so much the sort of high tech sort of 80s synthy kind of stuff but there was a lot of inspirations there and I think it just sort of found its own sound really I started recording the music in early 2023 just after doing most of the videos the character recordings for the game the FMV sequences so So February to March, I was recording most of my music for the game.

In November 2025, they released their first commercial project, a point-and-click adventure called Foolish Mortals, after four years of development.

Sophie and David have described Foolish Mortals as Monkey Island 2 plus Broken Sword, with a merry and macabre tone.

This is true to a degree.

but one of the reasons I'm most fascinated by Foolish Mortals is that Inklingwood has managed to create something entirely unique in their spooky but not scary Haunted Manor game set in Louisiana, 1933.

I wasn't really a big gamer.

And shockingly, I'd never played an adventure game in my life.

until i met david um so i think the first one we played together was broken sword um which is an

amazing introduction to adventure games

Adventures B, C, and D weren't anything special, but they were the first published games by one Charles Cecil.

We can forget about him for the rest of the '80s, but in the '90s, he founded Revolution Software and has been responsible for such adventures as Lure of the Temptress, Beneath a Steel Sky, and the Broken Sword series.

And a quirk of the 1992 Lure of the Temptress was that non-player characters could go about their business and move around locations on their own.

It's mostly just for show and is nowhere near as game-changing as in The Hobbit.

no, no.

I mean, all of the standard ones you'd expect, really, you know, the Sierra LucasArts collections, like stuff like Broken Sword, Gabriel Knight.

I tend to sort of gravitate to the ones where you kind of get to feel like you're part of a world.

So puzzles and so on, yes, important, enjoyable, but that's not the hook of the genre for me.

And I love that stuff.

You know, I love all the sort of details, like, you know, showing a thing to a character and getting a funny response from them.

Like with Broken Sword 2, the fact you can randomly show a dog biscuit to anybody in the world for no reason, except they wanted to write some funny dialogue.

And one of my favourite lines from that game is, in fact, the used dog biscuit on somebody, which is...

I'll bow to the will of the panel on this one.

Please try and convince Mauler to play Broken Sword Reforged.

Absolutely awesome game and made when storytelling meant something and acting too.

So is that a remake of the original? Um...

Because I played the original Broken Sword games and they're all great fun, really fun point-and-click adventure games from a very different era in gaming.

More you might actually enjoy them.

The puzzles are quite fun.

Yeah, fair enough.