HurrJackal1
JUNE 2026
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Broken Sword 1 - Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut (2009)
4.9 hours playtime
no achievements
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A Highland Song
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Overboard!
Not much finished this month.
- Broken Sword 1 - Shadow of the Templars: Director’s Cut: I started on the original version of this adventure game back in the days of physical media, and stalled out on what I have discovered to be the infamous goat puzzle. The Director’s cut was kinder there, being solved almost automatically, and the rest of the puzzles are almost all reasonable, although reaching the next story beat was occasionally murky and could have used some in-character hinting when you needed to be in a different location. I also liked the main characters, which always helps. 7.5/10 (Steamgifts win)
- A Highland Song: To reach a distant lighthouse to visit your uncle, you must navigate peaks and caves and loch-shores while learning snippets of lore, and identifying new routes from documents you find, which may make your traversal faster (or at least different). Good exploration, with some reasonable story scraps. The sections where you race deer along ridges are a mixed blessing, with some rollicking modern folk music, but are necessarily overlong and have an unnecessarily straightforward rhythm game; at this point I wish that I could fast travel through them. And I’m not mad about the seeming non-optionality of the ending (particularly on the first time around before you’ve necessarily experienced various things that might better lead you to choose that) 8.5/10, but the game is what it is.
- Overboard: Another inkle visual novel-ish game. I’ve finished a few runs, including getting away with murder, as well as utterly failing, and it all seems very slight (there’s a limited set of characters and locations), though managing to pick the correct route to finish all the achievements looks to be quite a task. 7.5-/10