Title variations:
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About the Game

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.

Source: Steam

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System requirements and PC test

Minimum:
  • Windows XP
  • CPU: Intel Pentium 4
  • RAM: 1 Gb
  • Free Space:200 Mb
  • VRAM: 128 Mb
  • Video Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5500
Recommended:
  • Windows XP
  • CPU: Intel Pentium 4
  • RAM: 2 Gb
  • Free Space:200 Mb
  • VRAM: 256 Mb
  • Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6600
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Reviews and ratings

Braid - Platformer about a guy who wants to return his beloved princess. The game features a time rewind mechanic that the main character will use throughout the game. In Braid, the story is told through books before the levels begin, which is great because it doesn't distract you from solving the puzzles. There is almost no training in the game (In the beginning we are taught only the basics), so we have to find a solution for each puzzle by trial and error. The game is incredibly difficult, but it makes it all the more interesting to complete.

Highly recommend

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Braid — Платформер о парне который хочет вернуть возлюбленную принцессу. В игре задействована механика перемотки времени, которой главный герой будет пользоваться на протяжении всей игры. В Braid сюжет рассказывается перед началом уровней посредством книг, что очень хорошо, так как не отвлекает от решения головоломок. В игре почти нет обучения (Вначале нас учат лишь основам), так что приходиться для каждой головоломки искать решение методом проб и ошибок. Игра невероятно сложная, но тем интереснее её проходить.

Очень рекомендую

10

Braid is just a godsend for all lovers of platformers and puzzles. Do you want to become a Time Lord? Then this game is for you. It’s a pleasure to immerse yourself in this colorful magical world, all accompanied by wonderful music. In the game you have to collect puzzle pieces, which are later put together into interesting pictures. Collecting them is not so easy, since almost all puzzles are tied to playing with time. For those who are not afraid of difficulties, there are additional stars that are scattered throughout all levels and hidden from view, and even after finding them, you still need to rack your brain a lot to understand how to pick them up. Having collected all the pieces of the puzzle, you will finally be able to save your beloved... but will you save it? The story here is … Read full

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Braid это просто находка для всех любителей платформеров и головоломок. Хотите стать повелителем времени? Тогда эта игра для вас. Одно удовольствие погрузиться в этот красочный волшебный мир и все это под прекрасную музыку. В игре вам предстоит собирать кусочки пазлов, которые в дальнейшем складываются в интересные картинки. Собирать их не так то и просто, так как практически все головоломки завязаны на игре со временем. Для тех, кто не боится трудностей, есть дополнительные звезды, которые разбросаны по всем уровням и скрыты от глаз и даже найдя их, нужно еще немало поломать голову, чтобы понять, как их подобрать. Собрав все кусочки пазлов, вы наконец сможете спасти свою возлюбленную…только вот спасти ли? Сюжет здесь преподается неоднозначно, и он открыт для трактовки игроками по-своему. … Read full

9.8
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