Braid

Braid suits people who like puzzles that make you rethink cause and effect. It is a calm, slightly melancholic game where mistakes carry no punishment, and every solution makes you want to replay it in your head. What to expect: - The first hour takes you through the mansion and the first puzzle pieces, and it quickly becomes clear that rewinding time is the core of everything, not just a button. - Each world bends the rules of time in its own way, so you rarely get stuck repeating the same trick. - Unlike most platformers, you don't need to memorize hard jumps: the difficulty lives in your thinking, not your reflexes. - The story about the princess is told sparingly, and you piece together part of the meaning yourself as you move through the world. You can buy Braid as a Steam gift right here: after payment, send your Steam quick invite link, and the bot will add you as a friend and send the game as a gift to your account. This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition. 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.