Game entry

Braid

2008 · Platformer, Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure · PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 · Number None Inc.

Braid is ranked no. 442 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,714 and 69% of duels won.

World rank

no. 442

ELO score

1,714

Wins

69%

Duels played

328

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About 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 filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.

The community says

Compared to Portal 2, the rewind mechanic asks for more trial and error, less immediate feedback, but it holds up fine on a technical level, no bugs, no…

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,714 ELO points over the last 123 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Inside 0% 4 duels played · 65 points behind
against Portal 2 50% 4 duels played · 279 points behind
against Super Mario Bros. 3 0% 3 duels played · 158 points behind
against Portal 33% 3 duels played · 178 points behind
against Silent Hill 2 33% 3 duels played · 154 points behind

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Around this spot

The games Braid sits between in the world ranking.

Released in 2008

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Donato_1990

Compared to Portal 2, the rewind mechanic asks for more trial and error, less immediate feedback, but it holds up fine on a technical level, no bugs, no slowdown even on the older PC I used back then. Inside nails atmosphere better tho, this one nails puzzle logic instead.
QuestDragon93

Mega Man tests reflexes (and patience), this one tests patience without needing reflexes at all. Different muscle entirely, honestly prefer this one.

NovaRex2

Il teste quoi, alors ?
Frame_Rippin

people keep pitting it against Portal 2 like it's a fair fight, but the puzzle logic here is way more punishing and less guided, different beast entirely

Celia_44

igual me pasó con Inside, esa sensación de que el juego no te sostiene la mano y aun así quieres seguir.
Éric_25

face à portal 2 j'ai plus de tendresse pour celui la, moins malin sur le papier mais chaque monde change vraiment la façon de penser le temps, portal reste plus fluide niveau rythme par contre

NeonHunter2

J'y joue par sessions courtes le soir et l'humour n'a jamais manqué, les mécaniques suffisent largement à tenir la comparaison.
Océane_1987

Le rewind reste d'une fluidité rare pour l'époque, aucun accroc dans la manipulation temporelle même sur les puzzles les plus tordus. Ça mérite plus que la 248e place à mon avis.

CoopRider2008

Sous la douche, sérieux ? Ça m'est arrivé pareil avec une énigme du monde des ombres, quelle libération !

Tristan_42

Ah, le fameux monde des ombres... moi j'ai abandonné et laissé ma manette prendre la poussière une semaine entière.

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