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Braid

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4.4/5

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4.4

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Braid
Description
Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time...
Genre:
Action - Puzzle - Platformer
Tags:
Action, Indie, Story Rich, Atmospheric, 2D, show 9 more... Puzzle, Classic, Casual, Great Soundtrack, Platformer, Difficult, Logic, Puzzle Platformer, Time Manipulation
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4.4/5

( 66 Reviews )

4.4

66 Reviews

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Product details
2009, Number None, ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+...
System requirements
Windows XP / Vista / 7, 1.4GHz or faster, 768 MB RAM, Pixel Shader 2.0, 9.0c, 200 MB or more...
Time to beat
5 hMain
6 h Main + Sides
7.5 h Completionist
5.5 h All Styles

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Description
Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more.

Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.
  • Forgiving yet challenging gameplay: Braid is a 2-D platform game where you can never die and never lose. Despite this, Braid is challenging — but the challenge is about solving puzzles, rather than forcing you to replay tricky jumps.
  • Rich puzzle environment: Travel through a series of worlds searching for puzzle pieces, then solving puzzles by manipulating time: rewinding, creating parallel universes, setting up pockets of dilated time. The gameplay feels fresh and new; the puzzles are meant to inspire new ways of thinking.
  • Aesthetic design: A painterly art style and lush, organic soundtrack complement the unique gameplay.
  • Nonlinear story: A nonlinear fiction links the various worlds and provides real-world metaphors for your time manipulations; in turn, your time manipulations are projections of the real-world themes into playful "what-if" universes where consequences can be explored.
  • Nonlinear gameplay: The game doesn't force you to solve puzzles in order to proceed. If you can't figure something out, just play onward and return to that puzzle later.
Goodies
poster wallpapers
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Minimum system requirements:
Recommended system requirements:

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Recommended system requirements:

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

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Time to beat
5 hMain
6 h Main + Sides
7.5 h Completionist
5.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Action - Puzzle - Platformer
Tags:
Action, Indie, Story Rich, Atmospheric, 2D, show 9 more... Puzzle, Classic, Casual, Great Soundtrack, Platformer, Difficult, Logic, Puzzle Platformer, Time Manipulation
Works on:
Windows (7, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04)
Release date:
{{'2009-04-11T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Number None / Number None
Size:
227 MB
Links:
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Rating:
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (Mild Cartoon Violence, Language)
Game features
Controller support
Overlay
Single-player
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User reviews

Posted on: August 20, 2019

kjjxsfedzck

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 4

A little too clever (sorry)

This game is...impressive. It has an exellent story. Its just....really, REALLY good. and it has incredible visuals and audio. Its frippin' magical. Or...so as not to understate my admiration: Magickal. With the 'K' that hipsters use so they can feel special. Which is how I feel about this game. Its frippin' Magickal. It really is something special. But I know, deep in my nerdy, nerdy heart, that alas, (with extra commas,) that I will never EVER solve some of these puzzles. ,,,,*sigh*,,,,,,,,,,, I know I'm retarded, I'm ok with it. :D And......well, thats where Braid gets too clever. I cant even fault you that much for it, because some of the mechanics for these puzzles are REALLY neat. They're REALLY, REALLY neat. frippin Magickal. God damn.....But I cant really figure some of them out. And I feel sad, because I feel like I failed somehow. Puzzle design is difficult. It just is. So, I cant fault you too much for that....however thats where a lot of games start to get tripped up, and when its your main avenue for fun and enjoyment, it gets a little hard to keep going. Which is such a shame because then I dont get to see the rest of your frippin' Magickally designed game. And thats why I gave it 3 stars.

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Posted on: November 19, 2021

EEilonen

Verified owner

Games: 258 Reviews: 17

Reverse-rewind-somehow move forward

In this game you will reverse time, rewind some steps, try again, rewind and somehow move forward. There is a great story somewhere here, but I did not like any of the gameplay. And I am salty about about it, but i aint gonna praise it either. I will give props to the story and the twists and everything that you should at least look a video about. I'm just saying that getting to the story wasn't fun for me.

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Posted on: May 12, 2016

Mico Selva

Games: 1415 Reviews: 17

Pretentious and overrated

I finished this game a few years ago, ecouraged by the glowing reviews, and at the end I was pretty disappointed. Maybe my expectations had been too high, since the game turned out to be just a platformer with (pretty neat) time manipulation mechanics and a pretentious storyline. I guess for many people that is exactly what they want, which is fine. For me this is one of the flagships of 'indie hipster game' phenonemon of the digital distribution age, but I do seem to be in the minority. if you like this type of game, then by all means, play Braid (you prbably have already). If not, steer clear, or wait for discounts to satisfy tour curosity. The audiovisual layer is fine, I guess, although i am not a fan of the art style. My rating: $4

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Posted on: April 25, 2020

MadPilgrim

Verified owner

Games: 411 Reviews: 215

Soulja boy was right

Nice visuals alone can't save this game from boring gameplay and painfully pretentious story.

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Posted on: December 19, 2024

diggertb

Verified owner

Games: 783 Reviews: 18

This wasn't fun

I installed a bunch of games, trying to clear my back log. I purchased this years ago and didn't try to play it before now. I suppose that if someone is exclusively looking for a puzzle game, they might come looking for this, but as for a game compared to many others, this had no point in starting other than to do several puzzles. The character has no purpose and the ability to continue beyond all puzzles suggested that you don't even need to do them. I did complete them all, but I did so believing there was a point, which wasn't true.

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