Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Broken Sword is a 2D adventure game played from the third-person perspective. The player interacts with the environment and controls the protagonist George Stobbart through the game world using a point-and-click interface. To solve puzzles and progress through the game, the player collects items that he/she can combine, use in the environment, or give to non-player characters. The protagonist converses with NPCs through dialogue trees represented by "conversation icons" to learn about the game's puzzles and plot. Clues and other information are obtained by clicking on items in your inventory and on objects in the environment. The player navigates with a map, to which new locations are added as the story progresses. Unlike most adventure games of the time, the death of the protagonist is possible, after which the player starts at the last save point.