The Broken Sword adventure series

It's absolutely not important, broken sword can be played in any order you want. There is just a vague background but each episode is a different story.

The best one is the 2 and then the 1 and then the 3. 5 is the worst (but it's still better than many point'n'click because broken sword serie is the best !). Didn't play yet 4.

edit : ty for the notice, it was just grim legends 2 from tremor, didn't want to do a giveaway or a topic for it.

The ongoing story isn't a big part of any of them, could happily play them all as standalone titles. FWIW the Steam Collection Bundle will almost certainly get a heavy discount during the sale in a few weeks.

I have only played the first game, so I'm certainly not an expert for this question.
However I assume that these games work more like those detective novels. They don't really progress a story and it is more about solving murders and mysteries, than following a developing plot.
Despite that, I do believe that it would be a good choice to play the first game first, since it introduces the characters - and by looking at the preview-screenshots of Serpents Curse, that game definately has some references to the first game, that you wouldn't understand if you haven't played that one.

I only played 2 and 1 so far, in this order, I did realize there were references in 2 from 1, I also played a demo of 3 and saw a character that appeared in both 1 and 2, so I suppose you could get some backstory about some of the characters by playing in order, butr I did not feel as if the experience was ruined by playing it in a different order. 5 I just recently won it from here, so I am only missing 4, 4 is the latest title appeared on steam, and I did not hear good things about it.

Alright thanks for the input guys, I'll treat it as a standalone and do a trade for it :-)

They treated it more like a new third game. You can still play the 3rd and 4th ones, but those are really different (the fourth game is more like a box pushing puzzle than a point 'n' click…).

Serpents curse is just full of copypaste from first two games and has lots of fan-service. You won't understand it without playing first and second game. But don't bother about 3-4 parts, it's like expanded universe, pretty good games though(much bettter than awful BS 5).

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Edit: I checked and I still have a key you can have

I'd suggest playing in the order 1,2,5.

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I've played all the Broken Sword games, they sometimes reference something from the earlier games, but for the most part they're pretty independant games.