About
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut is a 2009 enhanced remake of Revolution Software's classic 1996 point-and-click adventure. Players guide American tourist George Stobbart and now-playable French journalist Nico Collard as they unravel a murder mystery tied to a modern-day conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar across locations in Paris and beyond. The Director's Cut adds new puzzles, fully repainted hand-drawn artwork, and additional story sequences centered on Nico. It was well received as a definitive version of a landmark adventure game and was nominated for Best Story at the 2009 British Academy Video Games Awards.
Screenshots
Official store screenshots from Steam — deckport links them, never rehosts. Hover to pause; click to preview.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- bs1dc.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- proton_experimental
- Winetricks
- openal
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Platinum runs flawlessly
⚙ Setup notes
Delisted: Removed from Steam Nov 2024 (appid 57640) when the 'Reforged' remake replaced it; it's a custom 2D point-and-click adventure (Revolution Software).
Proton: ProtonDB platinum and it was Steam Deck Verified, so it runs out of the box on the Deck with proton_experimental. Launcher binary is bs1dc.exe in the install folder.
DRM: No GFWL/SecuROM DRM (plain Steam wrapper, ships openal32.dll).
Fix: Most common issue is no-launch/silent audio because OpenAL isn't installed (the game ships oalinst.exe but doesn't auto-run it) — install the openal winetricks verb, or run oalinst.exe from the game folder inside the prefix. If the game launches but has no sound, the documented workaround is a Steam launch option picking a sound backend, e.g. --sounddevice "Generic Hardware" (other values: "DirectSound Software", "Generic Software", "MMSYSTEM").
Controller: Pointer-driven gameplay maps cleanly to the right trackpad as a mouse; the Verified default layout works, no custom hack needed.
Install: deckport only configures the prefix; it never bundles or links the game files.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy. deckport links nothing.
Delisted: Removed from Steam Nov 2024 in favor of the 'Reforged' remake; this is the original 2009 Director's Cut (appid 57640).
Proton: ProtonDB platinum and previously Steam Deck Verified, so community reports confirm it runs on Deck under proton_experimental. Launcher is bs1dc.exe.
Fix: If the game won't start, install OpenAL (openal winetricks verb, or run oalinst.exe from the install folder inside the prefix). If it launches but has no sound, set a Steam launch option such as --sounddevice "Generic Hardware".
Controller: Single-player point-and-click; right trackpad as mouse with the default Verified layout is plenty, no controller hack required.
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.