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Game entry

Braid

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

Braid is ranked no. 370 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,732 and 70% of duels won. The pairing that comes up most often sets it against Inside: 4 duels settled, 0 to 4. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 8 out of 150 (2008).

World rank

no. 370

ELO score

1,732

Wins

70%

Duels played

364

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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 1,732 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Braid sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 367 Rocket League 1,733
  2. 368 Papers, Please 1,733
  3. 369 Fallout 4 1,732
  4. 370 Braid 1,732
  5. 371 Cities: Skylines 1,732
  6. 372 Donkey Kong Country 1,732
  7. 373 Super Smash Bros. 1,731

Released in 2008

The standing

Where Braid ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Braid stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 8 out of 150 (2008).

Where Braid ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 370 5,035
Platformer 40 620
2000s 105 1,308
2008 8 150

The community

The debate

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  1. 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.

  2. 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 ?

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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