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2024PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified95 % positive19.50 €

A puzzle platformer where rewinding and bending time is the key to solving clever, mind-bending puzzles. The anniversary edition adds hand-repainted visuals, reworked audio, new puzzles and extensive developer commentary.

Puzzles and brain teasers
Jumping and platforming
Lavish presentation
Distinctive, stylised art style

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The closest matches for Braid: Anniversary Edition are Braid, Hue and Shady Part of Me. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Braid: Anniversary Edition special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Braid

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2008PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck verified93 % positive14.99 €

A landmark puzzle-platformer where every world bends time in a new, mind-twisting way, from rewinding to parallel realities. Beneath its painterly look lies a melancholic, ambiguous tale of regret and obsession.

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Hue

Puzzles and brain teasers

A minimalist puzzle platformer where you change the background colour of the world to make obstacles vanish and open new paths. The search for the protagonist's missing mother provides a quiet, simple story.

Shady Part of Me

Lavish presentation

An atmospheric puzzle-platformer where you switch between a girl and her shadow, using light and shadow to escape a dreamlike world. Its painterly look and emotional story carry the experience.

A Juggler's Tale

Lavish presentation

You guide the string puppet Abby through a fairytale circus world where her strings are both a prison and a gameplay mechanic. A poetic, story-driven 2.5D adventure mixing platforming and puzzles.

Macrotis: A Mother's Journey

Jumping and platforming

You guide Mother Bilby through a hidden underground realm in search of her children. The game blends atmospheric 2.5D platforming with clever puzzles and an emotional, heartfelt story.

Arise: A Simple Story

Lavish presentation

A wordless platform adventure that tells a couple's life story through memories, from old age back to childhood. You bend time to get past obstacles, backed by a moving orchestral soundtrack.

Tandem: A Tale of Shadows

Puzzles and brain teasers

A puzzle platformer where you switch between Emma in a top-down view and her teddy bear Fenton in a side-scrolling view. Emma's lantern casts shadows that Fenton can walk across, as the pair investigate a missing magician.

Papo & Yo

Jumping and platforming

A poetic puzzle platformer in which a boy navigates a dreamlike favela alongside a monster who stands in for his father's addiction. The puzzles and the personal, autobiographical story are tightly intertwined.

Contrast

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play a character who shifts between a 3D world and a 2D shadow plane to solve puzzles. Its surreal 1920s film noir and vaudeville atmosphere and jazz score give it a distinctive mood.

Teslagrad

Jumping and platforming

A dialogue-free 2D puzzle platformer set in a steampunk world, where you use magnetism and electricity to solve clever puzzles and beat bosses. The story is told purely through visuals and atmosphere.

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