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Broken Sword 3 - the Sleeping Dragon (2003)
Developer Revolution Software Ltd
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon is an adventure game released on Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 in November 2003. It is the third installment in the Broken Sword series, released six years after the previous instalment, The Smoking Mirror. The Sleeping Dragon moved the series to 3D graphics, and is the only game in the series not to use a point and click interface. The player assumes the role of George Stobbart,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
193 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
55
Mixed
106 positive · 87 negative
95% range 48–62%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
508 of 898 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 193 · most liked firstIf you're old enough to have played this when it first came out, you'll remember what a terrible disappointment it was after the terrific, all-time classic first two Broken Sword games. To this day, you just have to say "box pushing puzzles" to an old-time adventure game fan, and they will shudder in revulsion and know exactly what you're talking about. I hadn't played this in something like 20 years but happened to pick it up in a super cheap bundle of all the BS games on Fanatical and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With the exception of Grim Fandago, there is a special kind of Hell for the game designers who made 3D Adventure Games back in the early days, when 3D art was so horrible and atrocious that even Pixels were more realistic. In that special Hell there is even a more special torturing chamber for the people who took Classic Point & Click Adventures and turned them into Action Adventures where you have to MOVE through atrocious 3D graphics using WASD or the Cursor pad and using the elements of said…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of my all time favorite comfort games. If a game was a lazy summer day, it would be this one. Every time I load it up I'm back at my old house with a breeze blowing through the open window, my dad is still alive, and the world still seems okay.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First 2 games are nice, nothing special, but still pleasant. After two great point-and-click adventures, moving to 3D and try to recreate some "Lara Croft" or "Syberia" atmospere and gameplay really killed the game. This is a non-point & click Broken Sword game! Game is buggy, the controls are awful and the camera's point of view is extremely frustrating... I've been trying to complete this game since April of 2022 and still haven't mustered the courage to do so... Thank God it doesn't have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →what are these controls
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WASD controls for actions with arrows to move around? Really?... 3D world with changing camera angles that change movement orientation? Really???... Crashing 3 times in 2 hours? Really??????... Timed events that due to 2024 computation power gives you less than a second to respond or you die and have to watch a full minute segment without being able to skip? REALLY?????????!!!!!!!!!! I had to stop, have a seat with my raging OCD and explain to it that sometimes in life you just can't be a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not nearly as bad as projected by a lot of people. Really the only big fail is the 3D and Keyboard, which does have a massive impact in a negative way. But the story, the puzzles and the characters are all in line from what I expect from the Broken Sword series.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Did games in the early 2000 had no idea of auto-save? Well ... maybe not. Did somone said this game is a point&click adventure? Whoever said that, they were wrong, because there is no use of a mouse in this game and therefore there is no point and no click. So you have to control the game by keyboard only. Accepted that and tried really hard on getting used to it because I do really like the other parts of Baphomet's Curse / Broken Sword ... so I really wanted to play all parts. I got used…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first two Broken Sword games are timeless classics, and nowadays it's clear as day that Revolution Software could have kept making those 2D masterpieces, and the fans would have kept buying them until the end of time. However, technology at the time was advancing, and the team wanted to switch to 3D, and so, after 6 years, Broken Sword 2 finally received a sequel. At the time of its release, critics praised the game, but how does it hold up now? For starters, the game does look impressive…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I understand 3D was where it was at back then but, man, this game is painful. I'm very fond of Broken Sword, and I love a point and click, but I can't stand to play this 3D abomination for more than like five minutes at a time. I'll finish it, just for completion's sake, but if you're not that way inclined, walk on by...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After the first two great games which were classic 2D point&click adventures, this sequel is a huge disappointment. The story is okay, the voice acting decent, the graphics fine. However, the absolutely awfui and unintuitive controls, horrible forced angles, and tedious "move boxes around" puzzles are a joke. There are almost no puzzles you need to combine items for or any dialogue puzzles or *anything* remotely different from "move this box from A to B." The stealth sections were quite…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has it's moments, but this is no longer a point and click adventure game. It has morphed into some kind of poor attempt of a Tomb Raider style game and you'll spend more time pushing boxes around than solving puzzles.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first time I played this game I bounced off it so hard. But coming back to it I actually enjoyed it. In spite of its new look I think it's aged so well, there's parts I genuinely could see the cartoon style in 3D. There's an over fondness of box pushing which is the games major flaw but aside from that it's a great story, a great conclusion to the first game as off the rails as it is. Nico as always is resigned to a reluctant hapless damsel and deserves better though. This game is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reviewed on Steam Deck I recently completed a playthrough on Broken Sword Reforged, a remake of the original 2D game. The first and second games were previously remastered, of course, but unfortunately this game has been allowed to fester like an unloved red-headed step child kept in the basement under the stairs while works continues on the 6th game in the series. Which is a shame since there is a lot to love here — Broken Sword 3 received a 9/10 from the prestigious EDGE magazine, I’ll have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The departure from point & click to be 3D and more interactive has this sitting with mixed reviews. At times I enjoyed it, it's certainly an adventure and not as bad as one might think, but i put it down before finishing and like everyone else just wished it played like the first 2 games in the series. It was such a departure that I won't even try the 4th one (looks to be done in the same style). The series appear to have returned to their point & click roots with Broken Sword 5 so I'm…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Sleeping Dragon is definitely a niche title that won't (and hasn't) appealed to everyone, but I got engrossed in it and would recommend it. If I were to try to categorise it, I'd sum it up as...wait, Broken Sword meets Resi? Yes, really, the old point-and-click style of games has moved to a Resident Evil-like tank control system, where you move George or Nico around the screen using not the mouse but the arrow keys, and you use your inventory with WASD. This reconfiguration was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It starts out strong, but suffers from a terribly disjointed story that ends in the last 30 minutes with a twist villain that makes no sense if you played the first game. The change from point and click to keyboard controls making movement and puzzle solving a chore, combined with a product of its time camera which shifts perspective at the most inconvenient times, makes this title overall not one I can recommend. If you feel the need to know how the story continues, look up the cutscenes when…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a disaster. The graphics are awful and painfully slow, even though I'm running it on a modern computer. And the controls just plain suck. They don't let you use a mouse, which defeats the whole purpose of a point and click adventure game. Only play this game if you don't like fun and really want to be frustrated.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reviewing games I played a long time ago: Ok... Broken Sword 3. Anyone who remembers when this was released knows how devisive this game was. It came out straight into the eye of the hurricane, during a time when classic adventure games were dying and developers were desperately trying to switch to 3D, direct input controls and dumbed down mechanics. This was was a gigantic disapointment, everything was subpar compared to the 2 previous games. I still dread the "push boxes puzzles". So, I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Locked, maybe the other side AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's probably my favorite Broken Sword? Maybe tied with the first one. Sure, some of the magic in the game is too schlocky, but the puzzles are on point, I love the Indiana Jones feel, the art is beautiful and the controls zre perfect!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Compared to Broken Sword 1 and 2, this is awful, You can't use the mouse and have to use a weird set of keyboard controls. The hint system is completely gone. It feels like there's barely any puzzles in this and it's mainly a talking sim.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hated the camera movement, but the game is classic broken sword which I loved. The 3D motion and controls took me a few hours to get used to but it was fun overall!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good part : The characters, if you're a fan of the Broken Sword game, clearly reuniting with George & Nico is a plus nostalgia-wise. Graphics are kinda alright for 2003 game especially surprisingly well for on 2560x1440 resolution Some good ideas here and there, but the execution is not good. Bad : CONTROLS : - Movement controls are only with the keyboard, you can forget the mouse... ironical for a "Point & Click". After a cut-scenes if you preemptively press the direction you're suppose to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Atrocious game - the controls alone made me rage quit the game. Who decided to get rid of the mouse controls on a point and click game genre???? Stay away from this horrendous abomination
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First 2 games are brilliant. This one is dreadful. Some bright spark decided to not support using a mouse so everything is done with the keyboard. As such, the controls are unintuitive and the game too frustrating to bother with. I don't like the 3D graphics either.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring game in the Broken Sword series There are games which I may like to return to it frequently, There are also boring games which takes me 2-3 months to return to it. This game is one of them. Story This game returns to the Templar storyline which happened in the first game. Once again, our heroes George Stobbart and Nico Collard return but the voice cast is changed a lot. This is also the first in the series to use 3D animation instead of the 2D cartoon style and cutscenes. The story…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lost their way with this game, the pressure to go 3D completely ruined what made the series special. It feels like a broken Sword knockoff, with sterile, blocky environments that are completely lacking in detail, character, and atmosphere.The game looks like it’s permanently stuck in potato mode, which is such a far cry from the beautiful art style of the og 1-2 games—if your coming from remasters its a proper shock. The puzzles are mostly mind-numbing busywork: pushing boxes, climbing, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The franchise was never great on puzzles, but this one dropped the ball by substituting most of them with so many banal crate shoving rooms, "action" scenes, "platforming" and terrible stealth sequences. Because, of course, 2003, what else was there to do for point & click adventures than to turn into ugly 3D action games with poor controls? Though to be fair, this one doesn't look and play all that badly. Had it had some more actual puzzles, it could've been a solid entry, but, well, it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst game in the series. (Objectively)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having loved previous Broken Sword games, at first the controls were a bit of a culture shock, but actually it has the same charm as other entries in the series - just a slight learning curve! So far, the story is very good, voice acting is great and it's actually nice seeing the characters in 3D even if I still prefer the 2D point and click earlier entries.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very buggy. Game froze, then loaded a save game and now keeps crashing. NOT starting over.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Black screened and couldn't complete the game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken sword? More like broke every window on my 2 monitors even on normal resolution
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In a blatant attempt to copy the changes that Monkey Island was making, the creators managed to repeat all of their control scheme mistakes, as well. It's highly unplayable and bug prone. I made it 20 minutes before I felt compelled to uninstall it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is good... if you like pushing boxes around. Almost all of the puzzles in the game involve George or Nico grabbing various cube-shaped boxes with different skins (crates, slabs of granite, even a washing machine) and sliding them to stack and be able to climb and enter (or reveal) the next area. By the time you get to the end, you're in for a real treat... stacking THREE levels of boxes. Wow. Good times never cease... Besides this, there are a ton of cutscenes which suddenly give…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, I can't recommend this one. I still enjoyed the characters and their trademark humor, but the 3D visuals look awful in comparison to the 2D animation of the first two games in the series. The controls make the puzzle-solving frustrating. Why did they think this was a good idea?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had a problem at the beginning using the fire extinguisher to break the airplane window. The cog icon didn't appear when using the page direction keys. You have to press 'fn' at the same time and the cogs will appear. Took a very long time to figure this out. I looked it up and lots of people gave up on the game apparently because of this. Apart from this the game was a good throwback to many years ago playing the Broken Sword games with friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No idea why they decided to go away from what worked so well in the first 2 games to jump on trying to make it more "3D" to fit in with other games at the time but they butchered this game, to me this is unplayable, sucks I have to avoid one of the games in the series, hoping 4 isn't the same. With number 5 it seems to be back to what worked so I'm guessing they realized it wasn't any good.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok, I have a love/hate relationship with this game. This third installment of the Broken Sword series takes us into another mystery, and this time it follows part of the main story from the first game, which includes the Templars. As usual, everything starts with an item that is more than it seems, and from that point on George and Nicole are pushed together into the story. One of the things I like about this game is the story and how it answers some of the questions left from the first game.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, they pulled a Syberia..after two great point-and-click adventures, moving to 3D really killed the game. First the positives- the humor is still intact. I can appreciate that the first problem solve is opening up a beer to wake up a downed pilot. Lipsync mostly exists, which I guess is an improvement to the limitations of the pixel 2D predecessors. You can actually run this time! However, see below for camera bs. The negatives- controls are the worst thing ever. Mouse and controller…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just couldn't play this game. I got it in a set with the other four in the series and this is the only one I had to skip. There is no mouse support and I couldn't get my controller working with it. The keyboard controls are terrible. I gave up after a few minutes and likely won't return to the game unless they release an updated version with mouse support. Its too bad, the series was pretty good up until that point
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was worse than I thought it would be. Bad controls/camera, unskippable dialogue, puzzles take forever due to it having to finish loading animations. Frequent situations where your ability to interact disappears.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is hands down the most unfun cold garbage I have ever sat through. I'm not even playing it for curiosity. This is great first-hands-on learning material for literally EVERYTHING to never do in game development. From the puzzles, to the mechanics, to the interact interface, camera angles, music cues, lighting, level design, crafting, un-skippable cutscenes, un-skippable dialogue, story telling. When I say all of it I mean ALL OF IT. The absolute worst. I never would have thought I'd have a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great older adventure game, maybe my favourite broken sword game. Mid level puzzles, great story, would reccomend everyone.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Garbage controls and early 3D graphics just because it was the in-thing back in 2003. This needs a complete remake as this version is unplayable. Skipping for the next in the series. Hopefully, they'll have learned this was a bad idea by then.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked this game. It didn't knock my sock off but I had a good time. Whilst it's the 3rd game in the Broken Sword series it's very different control wise with the jump from 2D to 3D - it's a little jank but something I got used to as time went on (if you've played the earlier Telltale games like Wallace and Gromit or Back to the Future it feels a little like that). There's a bunch of references and callbacks to Broken Sword 1, so I'd recommend at least playing that game before this one. It…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BS3 was actually a lot of fun when I got over my initial frustrations with the controls. Steam Input has made this game much less of a hassle than when I originally attempted to play it years ago. A few characters are less than enthusiastic about their scene, and the camera was in the way a few times, but you'll have that in older games. All in all it was a fun entry in the series. I didn't come across any game breaking bugs in this entry. The story was fun and the mechanics set new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →really disappointed that i cannot finish the game because of bug in wine bottle puzzle. spent hours getting therefor nothing!!!!!! have tried reinstalling but to no avail, am really annoyed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literally unplayable with these keyboard controls. Marked as Point & Click but there's no cursor?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Big change from the previous two installments, i still found this game to be a great experience and recommend playing it to any adventure fan.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon is a captivating Adventure game with an intriguing storyline, challenging puzzles, and immersive gameplay. The beautifully crafted world, rich characters, and clever mechanics make it a must-play for fans of the genre. Dive into this thrilling journey and get ready for an unforgettable gaming experience. The negative reviews talk about the clunky and awkward controls which I agree with. Regardless of any shortcomings, this was still a great Adventure game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Medium Difficulty - Memorable Adventure - Peaceful Best classic point-and-click adventure series out there if you ask me. Loved to play this game at night before going to bed. It can be played on weaker laptops as well! Similar to games like Dreamfall. 10/10 would click me to sleep again! 😉
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recommend, but only if you've played the original two. Like everyone else has pointed out: the controls are super wonky and make it a little frustrating to do puzzles, or even walk down the street to a character you know you need to talk to. Lots of move the box puzzles like everyone else has pointed out. And yes, the redeeming part is the story and the amazing characters we've grown to know and love from the first two. I used to play on the original Xbox before it came to Steam, so I knew…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →garbage don't bother nothing like 1,2 or 5
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gift it to a friend and make them play it. They will stop being your friend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a really hard time starting playing the 3rd game of the Broken Sword series. The game is very different from the previous games - it is 3D, there is a lot of "tomb raider" stuff going on and the new controls did feel really strange (until I got used it later into the game). I really did not have much fun until I finished like 40-50% of the game. The second half is where the game really shines. You get to these new cool locations with these really interesting mini games like puzzles that I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dunno if I'm going to keep playing this. If I do, the only reason would be because I received this as part of a gift and also because I adore the first two Broken Sword games. Broken Sword 3 - the Sleeping Dragon is awful presently. Since I haven't completed it yet and might abandon it, here's quick bulletin points of my main gripes so far: * Dialogue often cuts off mid sentence. * Characters cuts off other characters dialogue mid sentence. * Occasional spelling mistakes in the subtitles.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is probably one of those games where you'd want an option between the binary "Yes" and "No" to be "hmmm.....". THE BAD The move to three-dimensional graphics makes the gameplay feel pretty awkward; the (semi-)fixed camera angles only make that worse, and make it difficult to see the important things in each scene, like what to collect, or where to go. Some of the puzzles are a bit finicky in wanting you to perform specific actions in a specific order, even if you've jumped the gun and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken Sword 3 is an ancient (2003) console ported adventure game that's been dumped on Steam. It's a basic point and click adventure game where you click on hotspots. There's a modern, generic pulp adventure theme. It's extremely dated and the developers have done nothing to update the graphics. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the…
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