Broken Sword 1 - Shadow of the Templars (The Director's Cut)

Broken Sword was one of those games that stuck with me as a kid. It introduced me to George Stobart, Nico, and a cast of brilliant characters, and somehow managed to involve murder, mystery, conspiracies, and clowns without giving me a lifelong irrational fear of them. Revisiting it as an adult has been amazing. The writing still holds up, the humour is still sharp, and the adventure still has that charm that made me love it in the first place. It’s nostalgic, but not only because I played it when I was younger. It’s genuinely still a fantastic point-and-click adventure. Absolutely worth playing.