Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse - Episode 1

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse - Episode 1 is the first half of the game Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse. Unlike the PC version, the full game was not released as a single purchase, but as two parts with the second episode released at a later date as an in-app purchase. The first half is set in Paris, with two trips to London.

The story plot centers around the painting La Maledicció. George Stobbart and Nicole Collard witness as a masked man steals La Maledicció and kills the gallery owner. Both have their motivations to solve the crime, George works for the painting's insurer, Nico is a reporter and the police are incompetent, and so they unravel a conspiracy which is somehow connected to the Gnostic Gospels.