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Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010)
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 34% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 1,615
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 7h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 34% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,614 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 8h for positive, 6.7h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (34% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (27)
- Heavy Handed Squashed the spider - now it's just yellow goo. 100%
- Fire Escape Bravely escaped from a burning room. 93%
- Borrowed Booze Used guile and cunning to steal a gendarme's flask of absinth. 81%
- Sneaky Sneak Knocked Pablo into the dock with a low flying barrel. 74%
- Dog Dunk Dunked a pesky dog. 73%
- Coyote Stone Got the ancient Mayan Coyote stone from Lobineau. 72%
- Rescued Nico Found and rescued Nico in the warehouse. 70%
- Jailbreak Escaped from Quaramonte jail. 62%
- Medicine Man Used a secret root to save Nico's life. 59%
- Captain Ketch Solved an ancient puzzle which points me to Ketch Island. 53%
- Going Underground Made my way into a disused London Underground station. 53%
- Matador Dodged a wild boar on Ketch Island. 52%
- Jaguar Stone Snatched the Jaguar stone from Oubier's corpse. 49%
- Eagle Stone Found the Eagle stone in Ketch's treasure chest. 49%
- Rescued George Rescued George from the sacrificial slab atop an ancient pyramid. 48%
- Game Completed Finished the game. 47%
- Bad Timing Failed to sneak onto a boat, moored on the river Thames. 47%
- Ancient Puzzle Solved the giant wheel puzzle in the pyramid chamber. 46%
- Henchman Killed by Pablo. 37%
- Cat and Worm Shown a worm to a cat. 37%
- Meddle No More Got strangled by Karzac. 33%
- Lucky Coal Found my lucky coal after firing it across sea - that was lucky! 26%
- I Hate Marzipan Met a talking goat. No, really. 17%
- Hardcore Finished game without using any hints. 15%
- Angry Spider Incurred deadly wrath of spider. 10%
- Black Screen of Death Crashed the general's computer! Oops. 9.4%
- Really Bad Idea Met Robert Foster from Beneath a Steel Sky. 9.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.