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Braid, Anniversary Edition cover art

Braid, Anniversary Edition

Thekla, Inc. · 2024-05-14

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 14, 2024 (Android), May 14, 2024 (iOS), May 14, 2024 (Linux), May 14, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 12, 2024 (Mac), May 14, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.

6
playing now
92%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
64/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Braid is an indie puzzle-platform video game developed by Number None. The game was originally released in August 2008 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. Ports were developed and released for Microsoft Windows in April 2009, Mac OS X in May 2009, PlayStation 3 in November 2009, and Linux in December 2010. Jonathan Blow designed the game as a personal critique of contemporary trends in video game development. He self-funded the three-year project, working with webcomic artist David Hellman to develop the artwork.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 10,807 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 37k–84k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,860 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.79 at Steam (2026-01-17) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 11 of 23 observed days · $16.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2062026-08-11 18:00 — 17 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 17 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 10 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 10 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 17 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 11 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 16 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 16 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 17 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 16 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 14 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 17 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 10 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 20 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 18 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.792024-04-222026-08-282024-04-22 — best price $15.992024-06-27 — best price $4.992024-07-20 — best price $19.992024-08-26 — best price $19.992024-10-07 — best price $19.992024-11-25 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-01-18 — best price $19.992025-03-08 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-04-07 — best price $4.992025-05-30 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $4.992025-09-04 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $3.992025-11-06 — best price $3.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-01-17 — best price $3.792026-03-03 — best price $3.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-04-16 — best price $4.992026-06-02 — best price $3.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-08-10 — best price $4.992026-08-28 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

6282322026-05-31 — 301 pageviews2026-06-03 — 365 pageviews2026-06-06 — 246 pageviews2026-06-09 — 273 pageviews2026-06-12 — 282 pageviews2026-06-15 — 389 pageviews2026-06-18 — 428 pageviews2026-06-21 — 349 pageviews2026-06-24 — 373 pageviews2026-06-27 — 336 pageviews2026-06-30 — 328 pageviews2026-07-03 — 318 pageviews2026-07-06 — 302 pageviews2026-07-09 — 534 pageviews2026-07-12 — 299 pageviews2026-07-15 — 282 pageviews2026-07-18 — 302 pageviews2026-07-21 — 366 pageviews2026-07-24 — 302 pageviews2026-07-27 — 313 pageviews2026-07-30 — 268 pageviews2026-08-02 — 236 pageviews2026-08-05 — 299 pageviews2026-08-08 — 372 pageviews2026-08-11 — 311 pageviews2026-08-14 — 404 pageviews2026-08-17 — 483 pageviews2026-08-20 — 404 pageviews2026-08-23 — 372 pageviews2026-08-26 — 301 pageviews2026-08-28 — 275 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
86.8%
earned "Traversed World 2"
36.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudCommentary availableRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,3306%13
PS5 (PlayStation)1,06015%14
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)5818%13
Switch (Nintendo)1160%0
PS4 (PlayStation)9536%14

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DLogicActionCasualPuzzleCartoonyColorfulNarrationHand-drawnPlatformer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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