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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

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

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.
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poster wallpapers
System requirements
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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: December 8, 2020

afreecompany

Verified owner

Games: 390 Reviews: 2

Overrated

Nice visuals and music with misarable gameplay with mediocre puzzles. If you like precise platforming (do exactly as developer told you, every mm counts) than you might actually enjoy this game. For me unplayable...

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Posted on: April 2, 2021

gregryz

Games: 99 Reviews: 10

Psychedelic games

There needs to be more psychedelic inspired video games

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Posted on: August 20, 2021

klampshaw

Verified owner

Games: 54 Reviews: 36

A good indie-puzzler, but...

Though it benefited at the time from being one of the first "big" indie games, it hasn't aged super well. I enjoyed it well enough the first time I played it, but some of the stages just aren't much fun to replay. I would've preferred that the puzzles built on each other over time, rather than rely on individual gimmicks. Also, worth noting that some things, like the music, were just purchased assets. Grab it on sale.

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Posted on: April 1, 2022

iustinn

Games: 10 Reviews: 1

A special experience

One of the best games I've ever played. Definitely one that you will remember for a long time.

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Posted on: November 28, 2019

MichuZiemak

Games: 51 Reviews: 1

Best game I've ever played

Just it. Great puzzles. Easy to learn. Very addicting.

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