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Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death (2006)
Developer Sumo Digital Ltd
Broken Sword: The Angel of Death (Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game in North America) 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… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
193 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Sep 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
40
Mixed
77 positive · 116 negative
95% range 33–47%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
225 of 536 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 193 · most liked firstPoorly aged, but still retained that Broken Sword vibe Broken Sword 4 is a continuation of one the best adventure game series of all time. Again you embark on an adventure with lots of things to uncover, solving puzzles and of course saving the world. The story is really nice, maybe not on par with first two games but it's pretty damn solid. Lots of locations to explore and dangers to avoid. Using you braing will be required as always, but this is not one those games where puzzles are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43642699-The-Adventure-Library/lists/] The Adventure Library - all about point and click adventures Just finished this game and I have to say it is better than expected. Worse than part 1 or 2, of course, but not such a nightmare as I assumed it would be. You get used to the tank controls, they are annoying but work, with mouse or using my Steam Controller. The most important thing is the story, and this is still somehow a Broken Sword…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad adventure game! 2/10 - Bad sequel. - Bad directing. - Bad animation. - Uninteresting storyline. - Several stupid storyline twists. - Lots of boring conversations. - No final ending. - Bad game controls. - Climbing mechanics. - Stealth mechanics. - Unable to skip cutscenes, conversations and comments. Not recommended even for fans of the great classic "Broken Sword" dilogy! P.S. How to run "Broken Sword 4: the Angel of Death" on Windows 10/11 without lags (freezing). 1. Open the Steam…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will defend Broken Sword 3. But as for Broken Sword 4 it does the mix of point and click and 3D into a mess. So not recommended. I have guilty pleasure of this playing when it was new. I loved it, but i hated the disappointing ending. In anycase, even hardcore fans will not be too huge fan of it. If you are a Broken Sword fan i recommend playing it once atleast. But if you want the best experience. Then stick to the point and click versions. Broken Sword 1 and 2 are the best top tier gold in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is an utter abomination as Broken Sword game. When compared to the originals it: * lacks the atmosphere * lacks the humour * has truly awful voice acting * IS. JUST. PLAIN. BORING. the developers obviously were trying for a more serious and a more realistic looking game, but in doing so they sucked the life and soul out of what makes Broken Sword what it is. It was so bad I couldn't even finish the game, truly a disappointing effort. 3/10 and that's been kind.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Broken Sword immensely and the 4th entry in the series, was the one, I never quite managed to finish, when I played it many years ago. On my current series playthrough though, I hate to admit: I don't think it's worth playing. I say that, having recently played through the 3rd game, which I would recommend in spite of its aging and issues. Broken Sword 4 has little of what Makes Broken Sword special, besides it's main character George Stobbart and his witty sense of humor. The puzzles…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a huge disappointment after the other Broken Sword games. The game lacks the depth and humor of the other games. In most places, you are on a rail, with only one or two items to interact with. At one point, you go back to your office only to have a single conversation and pick up one item from your desk. All the amusing side comments and other items to click and interact with are gone from this. As well, even when it is blindingly obvious what you need to do, unless you manage to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I should have written this review back when I had just finished the game, but I was so annoyed at the game that I decided to leave it alone. What are my annoyances? For one, no hint system… this game DESPERATELY needs a hint system. Half the time the solutions make NO sense at all. I played most of the game with a walkthrough guide open. The puzzles were so unfun most of the time that I’d rather just follow the walkthrough instead of even attempting to solve it. The puzzles I liked were those…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥ the most important take away from the game is "Anna Maria" ♥ The game was part of my school assignment to study and highlight horrible game design and why it fails in this game ~ that should tell you a lot on its own what you are getting yourself into. Clumsily made but I still liked it and played till the end, mostly what carries is good immersive main characters voice over although the guy's voice some times boring. The start of the game is a comedy flip flop from gameplay and design…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Although this game has merit in some of the art direction and story, I can't recommend it to the casual player. For the first time in this series, I found the puzzles to be unintuitive and aggravating. I spent minutes, sometimes too long, wracking my brain for the right solution. Had to cheese my way through a few puzzles by trial and error. Where as in the first three games, some clever thinking or combination of items will feel rewarding, puzzles here often feel too often like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken Sword 4 – The Angel Of Death Emergency! Emergency! The franchise is burning! The franchise is burning! Very late to the party on this despite being a long time Broken Sword fan. Been a broken sword fan since my childhood. Broken Sword 3 was passible but was not a scratch on 1 & 2. 4 on the other hand I do not recommend to anyone other than a long time Broken Sword fan. Even as a long time broken sword fan this was poor apart from a couple of references and the traditional BS comedy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game gives black screen after pressing ALT+TAB. Go to Task Manager -> End Task, game still open in background. Restart PC -> game prevents restart. Still restart -> game still prevents restart to the point where I have to hold the power button. Restart PC -> open game -> progress lost. I AM MAD
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In spite of finding 3, over hated, and this having a worse reception, this game is under hated. It's so uninteresting. There's so many completely undeveloped plot points convinced it's missing an act or 2 from the end, and they cut it short due to development issues. The completely worthless new love interest would improve the game for not existing and would not impact the story at all. More than any other game women are hapless and pawns to George, there's one point the new girl jumps up…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is still to this day the most disappointed I've been in a squeal. The Broken Sword games are some of my favourite games in general and I still can't wrap my head around what Revolution was thinking with this sequel. I haven't got much playtime in the steam version (bought it as a collection) but I did play this when it was first released in 2006. The theme feels off, the story feels like pound land Davinci code and worst of all the characters just don't feel like themselves besides maybe…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My reccomendation is yes/no! Even though Broken Sword is one of my favorite Point & Click series, Broken Sword 4 is the one I did not like at all. It is so slow compared to the first three ones and the puzzles sometimes made me crazy! Maybe that is why it is one of the less famous BS out there. Also the fact that it has two different naming (Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game) and it did not come out for any console, makes it less popular ( I guess ). Anyway, if you love the series as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is kinda buggy and has very low frame rates even on good system. Lags!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a big fan of the series and have overlooked some janky mechanics in earlier games but this one is a bit of a chore to play, long sections of dialogue are unskippable even if you've heard them six times already, there are multiple platforming sections with opaque controls. Unfortunately for a point & click game lots of intuitive item combinations get standard "I'm not going to do that" messages with no imagination going in to predicting things players might try. But the kiss of death is a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken Sword being one of my favorite series, out of curiosity I wanted to see what this fourth game would be like in 2025, having tried it out when it first came out in 2006, at a time when my configuration didn't allow me to play it in decent conditions. Well, it's still just as bad, it's still just as slow, and my first game breaking bug occurred in the first 4 minutes of playtime. 10/10, would uninstall again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this as part of the series bundle and went in positive after the horrible gameplay that was 3, because I've really enjoyed the story thus far and figured being able to use a mouse again would be helpful. I even saw the negative reviews about the controls but wanted to give it a chance. After struggling with movement for 20 minutes but still determined to make it out of what seemed like the tutorial level, the final nail in the coffin for me was my attempt to go across a tiny ledge…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story is okay and that was the only positive thing about the game. Unfortunately they took the genre further into 3D action adventure games which is very bad compared to the third part. Which wasn't so annoying in the third part but it is here. Although this time you had to use not only the keyboard but also the mouse, which became a kind of hybrid solution, but unfortunately the controls became absolutely terrible. It was fine in the third part but not here. In the third part it was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just terrible. Save yourself the time and energy and run far away from this game. There's an absence of logic with most aspects of this game. I wasn't a massive fan of The Sleeping Dragon, but was able to conclude that it was "okay". But this is just awful. It takes all the bad things from the previous game, removes all logic from the puzzles and then adds in tedious reading and hacking puzzles. A couple of good points: - The orchestral score is, once again, excellent - There's no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Though this one is considered the worst in the series, I liked it better than "The Sleeping Dragon". First of all it's a point & click adventure again. Some puzzles were pretty challenging and I liked that too. No more annoying box puzzles, way less stealth sequences and ways to die. The game still has a lot of drawbacks - like unskippable dialogs, awful camera movement and controls and pixel hunting. I hate when I have to consult walkthrough - it kills the "eureka" moment when you solve…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was told this was the worst in the Broken Sword series. I had played throught the last three games, so before jumping into 5, I felt obligated to play through the fourth game at least once. And I can say for sure that I will never come back to this game. But to play devil's advocate I will say they do improve a few things from the last game. They got rid of the Keyboard controls thankfully, and added a run button so I didn't have to George take an hour to walk across a room. I even liked a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →During one of the earlier puzzles you are required to burn an item in order to create smoke. I chose to burn a paper map. The game gave no indication that I should have used a different item and the puzzle completed successfully. Jump forward to the penultimate puzzle in the game. After much futile clicking, I decide to read a guide. Turns out I needed the map that I had burned to ashes about 10 hours prior! So there I was, stuck on the penultimate puzzle with no way to progress and no way to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A long time has passed since I began to play this game on my Amiga! I hadn't played anything past the second instalment so thought I would buy the complete set and start my journey all over again. (Picked up complete series 1 to 5 for £10). Not going to lie, the game is a bit of a mess and can be / is difficult to play through. That being said liked the scenery and 3D graphics (despite screen tear). It has some really good moments. The story is good and the return back to point and click…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wouldn't say this is a bad game, just a product of bad choices. Starting 3, the 3D felt like a shock, somewhere around 80% I was used to it and even started to like it. I did not like the art choices for 4. The game does feel rushed, but it was a different time, 3D Universes like GTA were hits, 2D practically had 1 foot out the door and there were big developments in the industry overall because of the HD Console generation. Complaints about the jokes and the writing style of this game are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+ The game looks very good for its age (Played in 4K on an OLED TV) + It has aged much better than the previous installment, both technically and in terms of gameplay. - The pace of the game is not the best and the puzzles are average - The controls are not very intuitive and there are occasional bugs However, the story is, as always, what keeps this series at the top of the genre. This installment is closer to the originals and does not disgrace the series. It has also aged much…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the lack of controller compatability is annoying
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Certainly not the worst game ever made but definitely the weakest in the Broken Sword series. - It's buggy. Including a bug in the very final act that prevented me completing an essential puzzle so I literally can't complete the game(!). - It features a really dreary and murky colour palette that makes it just plain unpleasant to look at. - It has one of the worst control systems I've ever seen in a 3D point-and-click adventure game. - Plus it criminally under-utilises one of the series' two…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I first played this from a box copy something like 17 years ago not long after initial release and remembered not thinking much of it. But I recently happened to pick up a complete Broken Sword series bundle for like $1 on Fanatical, adding BS3 and 4 to my Steam library and decided to replay the two black sheep of the Broken Sword series. On the positive side, BS4 isn't quite as bad as BS3. In particular, while the 3D camera and character navigation in 3D space are still pretty much a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The black sheep of the series. As black as the night. So I said the controls in BS3 were bad. Well they managed to make it worse! You control by the mouse, but the pathfinding is ass. George constantly walks into objects, so you have to make him walk little routes and are constantly clicking. You can control him with the keyboard, but since you also have to use the mouse to click on objects, it's not ideal. Gone are the hotspots from the previous games. Combined with HD graphics, means there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death (2006)" is an ancient game from 2006. It's a whopping 18 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a good fps game i have ever play
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really tried playing this game till the end, just to pay respects to the series and know whats going on before the fifth, but it's impossible to play. Story is questionable, quests are dull and the amount of bugs makes you want to kill yourself. You need to save your game every 2 minutes in the last part, because George will be stuck in textures after a cut scene, and will probably got stuck in textures just walking. Don't event try it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is really sad for me because I LOVE these games. I was a teenager when the first game came out and I fell in love. They have all been so great, except for this one. It just feels like the most choppy game-play. The game makes me have a headache and the graphics are nowhere near as good as any of the others. I hated this period of experimental 3-D video, but so many did this. I understand why, but it just took so much away from the traditional style of the Broken Sword (Circle of Blood)…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Utterly dreadful. Takes what was bad in BS3 in makes it worse. The controls are shocking. The characters forever walking into wall, trees etc, or in the completely opposite direction. The crate shoving is still there as well as ledge climbing and tedious mini games involving hacking computers. The manuscripts you pick up are totally undecipherable and you will die too... a lot! When the game kept freezing at the hourglass thing, I gave up. It's no fun! I couldn't care less about what happens.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't buy this. Don't get it. Not even for free. It's an insult to Broken Sword saga and all videogames. Broken Sword 3 is bad, but this is nasty. Puzzles are completely illogical. In the first 30 minutes of the game, you have to stop an elevator door using a golf-club...in a room full of crates and cabinets. And after, you have to create a bridge between 2 very close edges, closing a door, and knocking it down with your shoulder. I can't understand how people can suggest this game with a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken Sword 4 is a return in the series to being an actual point and click adventure. It's an improvement on BS3 but still has some of the same issues in gameplay. Overall though it was much more enjoyable to play through than BS3. The graphics are only slightly improved. The main characters (George, Nico, and Anna Maria) have all been given much more detailed and smoother skins and the mapping and rigging on all the 3D models is definitely improved. Secondary characters however still had…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is really good and 100% Broken Sword. Don't listen to the negative reviews on here. Firstly I wanna start by saying that this was the first time I played this game in June 2019, my dad and I tried getting it to work years ago but it wouldn't. After that for some reason, I had this game down as not really being a Broken Sword game. I guess I didn't hear many good things about it. I couldn't have been more wrong. Everything about this game was Broken Sword, from the story, the music,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello I bought this game with the bundle and I am more than disapointed. This game is simply not finished. It is uglier than the previous episode. This game is good if you like to walk in a world of emptyness. I recommend to watch the end on internet to understand that it is not worth playing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so hard that I thought it just did not work at first. Everything has to be done by a spoiler. I am on the bomb now, and can not get past it. Hard game if you can do it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Upping their game from the previous instalments in the franchise, the creators of Broken Sword 4 produced storytelling, animation, and a user interface the provides the gamer with a sleek experience that can easily help you pass the time and engage in some entrancing game play. Fans of the occult fantasy genre will probably enjoy the mix of adventure, drama, and occult intrigue. Rated 7 out of 10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The series started off strong but then tried unsuccessfully to change its winning formula. In this entry, there are too many spatial puzzles involving the pushing/pulling of boxes, and not enough adventure game puzzles. I made it just over 5 hours before deciding to uninstall it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's worse than 1 and 3 and 5, but better than 2. You can really feel the money running out as you get through the game. I played the steam version a few years ago and it worked well enough. Couldn't get it working this time. The GOG version worked out of the box for me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the Broken Sword series, however I must say I did not enjoy this instalment. It is a point and click adventure game but tries to be a parkour and stealth game at the same time. The story is absent until the very end of the game. Also, the game includes huge locations but there is not much to explore or do.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It bug a lot and nobody on the internet have the answer of why or how to fix it. I hate this because I love the series so much.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ugly, frustrating, and boring, so much so that I gave up on this one and just looked up the ending online. Thankfully, the developers finally returned to 2D in the 5th game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I always liked the collection of Broken Sword and the first two were decent games, but since then, this and the one after, will not save your progress, I'm not sure whether to recommend or not. To play this, you would need a full day without having to try saving or exiting the game. However, interesting story lines. So I will recommend but with a caution. The save does not work whatsoever.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just like the tittle... BROKEN This game made me loose the friend I gifted it to. Playing fear and hunger is an easier experience. The only semblance of entertainment was realizing they say my name 69 times
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Better graphics, controls and camera then the third one, but still bad (especially the camera is horrible). At least they skipped quick time events this time. No skipping of text is a pain. It's also a lot of running back and forth, and the puzzles are the weakest in the series, a lot of them are just irritating. But at least it's playable, but the only reason is to get the full five game story, but the story is by far the weakest in the series. There are also several places in the game where…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't remember the last time I played a game that was this poorly planned and executed. It's broken. I'm a big fan of the series, but this was rushed beyond all relief. A lot of the puzzles don't make sense, the dialogue is mostly awful (something Broken Sword games are good at), and the facial animations are baffling. Not a good game at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arguably, this one is even worse than even the 3rd game in the series. Broken Sword is about funny dialogue, funny solutions, visiting colorful locations and historical secrets. This has hardly any of these things. You spend most of your time in some factories, sewers and abandoned plants. A lot of the puzzles are forced and illogical. And instead of 'move the boxes' 5000 times situation in BS3 you have 'do the hacking puzzle' 5000 times scenario. And the story, it is so dull, I would say it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-Bad framerates/jerkiness -Cannot skip through/advance text or cutscenes -Game-freezing bugs throughout the game. I encountered a few, but the one sealed the bad review prevents me from completing game, and the only "solution" is to email the developer to get a savefile that is past the crash point (Maynard-centrifuge).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unlike the terrible 3rd one, we get to control using the mouse again, however it's somewhat a hybrid system where you sometimes need to use the arrow keys to move efficiently (walking along ledges). The problem is the pathing of the characters is terrible. They walk into walls/doors etc and interact with objects when they are no-where near them. How could any studio release a game with such poor programming?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Controls are atrocious and almost make the game unplayable. This time we can use the mouse, but it winds up being a nuisance at times because you have to keep clicking over and over to keep characters moving. I'm hoping the fifth game improves on this. The 3D graphics don't suit this game either. Bring back the candy-colored cartoon graphics we know and love from the first two games! This game doesn't have the split second reflex tasks that constantly killed you and made BS3 so awful.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR : Ce jeu sent le foin. Jouez au 1 Le précédent était déjà une torture qui m'a littéralement fait baver de rage devant mon écran à force de casse-têtes fastidieux, de contrôles du personnage totalement aux fraises et d'une qualité technique bancale du logiciel mise en valeur par l'absence de sauvegardes automatiques. Je m'étais malgré tout forcé à terminer Broken Sword 3 par principe afin de constater que la médiocrité était constante de bout en bout. Je ne réitérerais pas l'exploit ici,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just wanted to drop in and offer a fix to the awful framerate: 1. Right click on the game in the library, go to properties, disable steam overlay 2. Open file explorer and navigate to the game's files (Driveletter:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Broken Sword 4\system), open the text file known as "Compat", and change m_bForceVSyncOn equal to 1 (note that the comment above it says it will help fix movie stutters, but I think it fixes everything), then save 3. Open properties again and in "Set…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game when it first came out and I recall having some issues with it back then but thought it was to do with my PC. I was wrong. This game has too many bugs and some which destroyed my run. I had to reload my save a few times to get going again. The puzzles are confusing and unclear at times. The hacking mini game is terrible. The redeeming factor is the story. It's not the best of the BS series but it's interesting. I would say if you have played other BS games and it's for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very average compared to all the other broken swords, worst of them all. Similar gameplay style to BS3. Lacking the beauty, charm and flare the others did somehow. The Puzzles and story sequence are repetitive and tedious, seems to be repeating the same things in different places, lacking a lot of originality and mystery the other games offered... Character development and styles seem bland too. Not worth the time or money. If your really keen on the BS franchise then give it a go but dont…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken Sword 4 is not completely terrible, but controls and graphics are poor. Some puzzles were good and the story was alright, but overall this one I cannot recommend.
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