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Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death (2006) cover art

Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death (2006)

Sumo Digital Ltd · Revolution Software Ltd · 2014-11-04

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 04, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

When a mysterious and beautiful woman rushes into George Stobbart’s office, pleading for help, he cannot know that he will be inextricably drawn into terrifying conspiracy, and a desperate search for a nefarious artifact of great and terrible power. For George, it looks like the world needs saving. Again.

2
playing now
42%
positive of 534 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
41/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Broken Sword: The Angel of Death is a 3D point-and-click adventure game developed by Revolution Software and Sumo Digital, which was released in 2006 in Europe and Australia and in 2007 in North America. It is the fourth iteration of the Broken Sword series, following 2003's Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon. Being released only on Windows, it is the only game in the series not to be released on any console. The player assumes the role of George Stobbart, an American patent lawyer, as he and Anna Maria, a girl with an old manuscript, search for a great treasure that the manuscript leads them to. The game uses a point and click interface, though George's moves can be controlled using a keyboard.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 35% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 28,833 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 13k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 534 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at GOG (2025-05-30) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 27 of 54 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172026Week of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-15 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 9 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 6 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 8 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
92Nov 2014Aug 2026Nov 2014 — avg 2 · peak 10Mar 2015 — avg 5 · peak 20Jul 2015 — avg 3 · peak 13Nov 2015 — avg 2 · peak 10Mar 2016 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2016 — avg 4 · peak 14Nov 2016 — avg 2 · peak 12Mar 2017 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2017 — avg 4 · peak 16Nov 2017 — avg 3 · peak 15Mar 2018 — avg 3 · peak 13Jul 2018 — avg 2 · peak 10Nov 2018 — avg 4 · peak 17Mar 2019 — avg 3 · peak 14Jul 2019 — avg 3 · peak 18Nov 2019 — avg 4 · peak 14Mar 2020 — avg 6 · peak 26Jul 2020 — avg 6 · peak 18Nov 2020 — avg 5 · peak 19Mar 2021 — avg 5 · peak 19Jul 2021 — avg 4 · peak 13Nov 2021 — avg 4 · peak 14Mar 2022 — avg 4 · peak 13Jul 2022 — avg 5 · peak 15Nov 2022 — avg 5 · peak 18Mar 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Jul 2023 — avg 4 · peak 12Nov 2023 — avg 4 · peak 18Mar 2024 — avg 5 · peak 19Jul 2024 — avg 4 · peak 16Nov 2024 — avg 4 · peak 20Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 15Jul 2025 — avg 4 · peak 14Dec 2025 — avg 4 · peak 13Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.592015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $3.992015-09-14 — best price $9.992016-03-29 — best price $9.992016-09-05 — best price $3.392017-04-07 — best price $9.992018-01-01 — best price $9.992018-09-13 — best price $5.992019-06-20 — best price $1.492020-01-27 — best price $5.992020-05-04 — best price $5.992020-06-19 — best price $5.282020-08-13 — best price $5.282020-09-24 — best price $1.492020-11-19 — best price $5.282021-01-08 — best price $4.992021-03-09 — best price $5.282021-04-20 — best price $5.992021-06-24 — best price $1.792021-10-25 — best price $2.512021-12-23 — best price $4.592022-04-25 — best price $2.682022-07-13 — best price $1.792022-09-27 — best price $5.282022-12-22 — best price $1.192023-02-27 — best price $5.992023-06-28 — best price $4.922023-11-21 — best price $0.692024-04-02 — best price $5.092024-07-12 — best price $5.282024-11-12 — best price $1.192025-05-07 — best price $2.032025-10-06 — best price $5.992026-04-13 — best price $0.982026-08-06 — best price $5.992026-08-25 — best price $2.05
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

55162026-05-30 — 40 pageviews2026-06-03 — 27 pageviews2026-06-07 — 55 pageviews2026-06-11 — 42 pageviews2026-06-15 — 27 pageviews2026-06-19 — 27 pageviews2026-06-23 — 16 pageviews2026-06-27 — 30 pageviews2026-07-01 — 26 pageviews2026-07-05 — 35 pageviews2026-07-09 — 26 pageviews2026-07-13 — 41 pageviews2026-07-17 — 40 pageviews2026-07-21 — 32 pageviews2026-07-25 — 34 pageviews2026-07-29 — 48 pageviews2026-08-02 — 36 pageviews2026-08-06 — 37 pageviews2026-08-10 — 37 pageviews2026-08-14 — 18 pageviews2026-08-18 — 26 pageviews2026-08-22 — 26 pageviews2026-08-26 — 33 pageviews2026-08-30 — 37 pageviews2026-09-03 — 26 pageviews2026-09-07 — 34 pageviews2026-09-11 — 30 pageviews2026-09-15 — 27 pageviews2026-09-19 — 33 pageviews2026-09-23 — 21 pageviews2026-09-27 — 24 pageviews2026-10-01 — 29 pageviews2026-10-05 — 27 pageviews2026-10-08 — 20 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-03-10 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieActionCasualPuzzleSequelMystery3D VisionAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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