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Braid

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

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May 11, 2016
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Windows, Linux
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★ 8.8/10GOG · 518 ratings
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★ 5 / 5
My first impression of Braid was ‘yet another Mario clone’—albeit with stunning visuals—but then I died… or so I thought. As it turned out, in…
★ 5 / 5
I am not a big fan of puzzle platformers and I am not a big fan of the visuals of this game either. But I've…
★ 5 / 5
Braid is a clever puzzle-platformer game with unique elements. This is the game is considered to be one of the most famous of indie platformers…
★ 5 / 5
Braid is a Puzzle-platformer where you collect puzzle pieces. It's definitely a meta-experience that gets very complex as you go on. Elements of time and…
★ 3 / 5
This was one of the first indie games I really stopped and noticed. It was the hand-drawn style that drew me in (fresh after an…
★ 5 / 5
Many other reviewers have attested to Braid's remarkable thoughtfulness and ingenuity, and I wholeheartedly agree with them. But one thing that people often complain about…
★ 3 / 5
I decided to play Braid after seeing it mentioned on several YouTube videos as an interesting and allegorical game. I hate to say it, but…
★ 4 / 5
The good: - Beautiful art style (I didn't like it too much on screenshots, but seriously, you need to see it in action!) - Music…

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★ 5 / 5
Play it. It's a Jon Blow game. What else do you need to know?
★ 5 / 5
I don't know why I have been holding off from playing this game until now. This puzzle platformer game remind me a little bit of…
★ 4 / 5
The good: - Beautiful art style (I didn't like it too much on screenshots, but seriously, you need to see it in action!) - Music…
★ 4 / 5
Really good platformer with various logical puzzles related to time travel/distortions.
★ 4 / 5
Puzzle platforming with several types of time manipualtion, the story is... well, I'm not even sure what it is about, but the music s very…

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