Braid stands out as one of the best Action/Arcade titles in recent memory.
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Verdict
93%
Steam
87
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (93% positive from 10K reviews)
Critically acclaimed (87/100 critic average)
Compelling narrative and story
Outstanding soundtrack
Steep difficulty curve may not appeal to casual players
Braid is an indie puzzle-platform video game developed by Number None. The game was originally released in August 2008 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. Ports were developed and released for Microsoft Windows in April 2009, Mac OS X in May 2009, PlayStation 3 in November 2009, and Linux in December 2010. Jonathan Blow designed the game as a personal critique of contemporary trends in video game development. He self-funded the three-year project, working with webcomic artist David Hellman to develop the artwork.
Runs well on modern hardware.
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A really fun 2D Puzzle game where it's all about manipulating time and objects, at the same time. You can rewind time and make certain objects stay in stasis to make some puzzles real head scratchers. Some require multiple layers of pause this, unpause, rewind, go back, pause ect. It's a lot of remember what the next action is in a chain of events. It took me around 4 hours to beat the game so pretty standard for a puzzle game like this, there wasn't too many moments where i was left scratching my head, around 10 mins top on the later stage, so it is a pretty easy game. The music is great too. Would Recommend.
Ridiculously moon-logic puzzles and controller vibration that can't be turned off.
[4/5] Excellent. Such a clever and well-made puzzle game with an ending I still think about years later.
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