Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where the player manipulates the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. Easily one of the best games on XBLA to date.

Available on: Xbox 360
Genre: Puzzle
Release date: Aug 6, 2008
Published by: Microsoft
Developed by: Number None Inc.

Multiplayer Modes:

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1 player SOLO

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Latest Stories

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Cheats from CheatPlanet

Hidden Texts in Epilogue

Aug 13, 2008

World 1

Aug 11, 2008

Hidden Book In Epilogue

Aug 11, 2008

Secret Star

Aug 11, 2008

Achievements

Aug 8, 2008

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FAQ's and Guides from CheatPlanet

Full Game Speedrun FAQ

Oct 20, 2008

Braid Star Guide

Sep 8, 2008

Braid Story Script

Aug 19, 2008

Braid FAQ/Walkthrough

Aug 14, 2008

Braid FAQ/Walkthrough

Aug 14, 2008

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Features

An incomplete history of time-travel games

31 games, 3 decades, and only a handful of cowboy levels

Oct 21, 2009

How indie games took on the world (and won)

Meet the maverick heroes of game development

Jul 13, 2009

The shortest game names of all time

Because sometimes just one syllable will do

Apr 14, 2009

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Mar 25, 2009

Confusing game endings explained

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Feb 17, 2009

The art lover's guide to downloadable games

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Feb 10, 2009

The Top 7... prettiest games of 2008

Pick your jaw up off the floor and bask in their rainbow-colored glow

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"Mature" games that are actually mature

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Oct 14, 2008

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Aug 11, 2008

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News

Braid's Next Game To Use Project Natal?

Jonathan Blow, the well known master mind who made Braid is making a brand new game. A game that...

News from N4G Oct 27, 2009

Braid Now Available For Mac

Mac users don't always get all the games that come to the PC but today they've received a damn good...

News from N4G May 20, 2009

Exclusive info about Braid 2

OXM UK writes: The Braid development blog has posted up 'exclusive info' about Braid II. And... it's...

News from N4G May 8, 2009

The Path Dev: Braid Is Not a Game

Michaël Samyn of Tale of Tales, the developer of The Path, an art game that some people said...

News from N4G May 7, 2009

Microsoft Refunds Overcharged Braid Purchases

TGS writes: If you were one of the many who purchased Braid on Xbox Live during the Deal of the Week...

News from N4G Apr 25, 2009

Braid Soundtrack revealed, now available

A soundtrack for the indie platformer Braid has appeared on Magnatune and is now available for...

News from N4G Apr 22, 2009

Braid level editor released

Braid creator Jonathan Blow has released a level editor for the PC version of his quirky...

News from N4G Apr 15, 2009

Braid gaining map editor, photoshop tool

Braid creator Jonathon Blow has revealed that a map editor and image tool will be added to the...

News from N4G Apr 14, 2009

UGO GDC 2009: Braid Dev Calls Out Large Dev Teams

UGO writes: Jonathan Blow, the man behind the XBLA hit Braid, took the contrarians stance in a GDC...

News from N4G Mar 28, 2009

Braid cost 200k to produce, Blow reveals

At the GDC panel discussion Braving the stormy waters of XBLA and PSN: Smaller is NOT Easier....

News from N4G Mar 25, 2009

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Review

Raising the bar

Aug 8, 2008

Travel back in time and enter a parallel universe and you’ll read an Xbox World 360 brave enough to call Braid the best game ever; a land without the likes of Super Mario World, Ocarina of Time, Portal and Fallout 3 all vying for the same spot. It’s a world where the platform game never died and a world where ingenuity and ideas curry greater favour than high definition visuals and bigger, louder guns. ...

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