Braid (tuxdb.com)

Braid

Number None Developer

Number None Publisher

2009-04-10 Release

Indie Strategy SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 16

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Very Positive (6797 reviews)

http://braid-game.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Braid Linux Depot [156.86 M]

Available DLCs:

Braid Soundtrack

Update

People are wondering about the update; so far it is some bug fixes for Windows: Fixed: Mouse creep on puzzle screens on some systems. Fixed: December savegames said (null) instead of the month name. Fixed: Crash due to out-of-bounds access when loading shaders, sometimes. Took out "How to Play" menu, renamed Help & Options to be just Options.

[ 2013-12-25 03:08:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

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.
Key features:

Newly added Steam Cloud support
Save your in-progress game to the cloud, then play where you left off from on any Steam connected computer.
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.