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2024PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified92 % positive−75 % 19.50 € 4.87 €

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
  • Strong soundtrack
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Emotional impact
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In short: Games like Braid: Anniversary Edition

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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Shady Part of Me

94 %Match

2020PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified93 % positive14.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Braid: Anniversary Edition: emotional impact, puzzles to figure out as well as jumping and platforming.

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.

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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.

A Juggler's Tale

Jumping and platforming

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.

Arise: A Simple Story

Strong soundtrack

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.

Contrast

Strong soundtrack

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.

Macrotis: A Mother's Journey

Emotional impact

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.

RiME

Emotional impact

A wordless, beautifully stylized adventure where a boy explores a mysterious island and solves environmental puzzles. The meaning of the journey only reveals itself near the end, as a moving story about grief and loss.

In Between

Emotional impact

An atmospheric puzzle platformer where you bend gravity and the environment while a terminally ill protagonist works through grief, anger and acceptance. The puzzles are tightly woven into its emotional story.

Unravel

Strong soundtrack

A wistful puzzle-platformer where you guide Yarny, a tiny creature made of yarn, through lifelike Scandinavian landscapes, using his unraveling thread to swing, build bridges and solve physics puzzles. Its wordless tale of memory, family and loss is carried by a gorgeous folk soundtrack.

Etherborn

Puzzles and brain teasers

A calm puzzle platformer where shifting gravity lets you walk across the walls and ceilings of surreal structures. A poetic narrator and meditative visuals accompany your quest to understand your own existence.

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