Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010)
Fair · Narrative · 2009
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: Direct X 5.0 compatible card, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
‘Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Remastered’ is a stunning update to the multi million-selling original. A mysterious escapade of intrigue and deceit, in which journalist Nico Collard and her adventuring companion George Stobbart must overcome powerful forces from fulfilling their evil ambitions.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.89, set in February 2023. 66 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse ($24.99, scores 60).
Of the 360 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
34% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010) scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/33600/broken-sword-2-the-smoking-mirror-remastered-2010Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 1.
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