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Braid, Anniversary Edition

Thekla, Inc. · 2024-05-14

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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.

Braid, Anniversary Edition is an Action, Adventure, Indie game released in 2024, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 1882 reviews).

24
playing now
92%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
64/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
4.64★
PlayStation Store rating (587 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

24 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 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

Healthy
  • · 24 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 280 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~35/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 38k–85k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,882 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

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 9 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
40840820242026Week of 2024-05-01: 408 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4922026-09-15 00:00 — 5 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 4 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 13 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 9 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 5 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 30 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 33 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 36 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 26 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 35 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 49 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 18 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 45 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 37 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 14 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 24 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1017May 2024Aug 2026May 2024 — avg 101 · peak 284Jun 2024 — avg 33 · peak 114Jul 2024 — avg 35 · peak 87Aug 2024 — avg 22 · peak 74Sep 2024 — avg 12 · peak 38Oct 2024 — avg 17 · peak 48Nov 2024 — avg 16 · peak 40Dec 2024 — avg 16 · peak 35Jan 2025 — avg 22 · peak 53Feb 2025 — avg 13 · peak 32Mar 2025 — avg 17 · peak 39Apr 2025 — avg 13 · peak 34May 2025 — avg 7 · peak 22Jun 2025 — avg 12 · peak 31Jul 2025 — avg 10 · peak 26Aug 2025 — avg 7 · peak 16Sep 2025 — avg 9 · peak 31Oct 2025 — avg 11 · peak 33Nov 2025 — avg 12 · peak 34Dec 2025 — avg 15 · peak 38Jan 2026 — avg 19 · peak 41Feb 2026 — avg 13 · peak 34Mar 2026 — avg 13 · peak 28Apr 2026 — avg 10 · peak 24May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 22Jun 2026 — avg 17 · peak 36Jul 2026 — avg 11 · peak 27Aug 2026 — avg 12 · peak 28
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$3.792024-04-222026-10-092024-04-22 — 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 $19.992026-09-11 — best price $19.992026-09-25 — best price $19.992026-10-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.5k2322026-05-31 — 301 pageviews2026-06-04 — 334 pageviews2026-06-08 — 374 pageviews2026-06-12 — 282 pageviews2026-06-16 — 480 pageviews2026-06-20 — 372 pageviews2026-06-24 — 373 pageviews2026-06-28 — 628 pageviews2026-07-02 — 291 pageviews2026-07-06 — 302 pageviews2026-07-10 — 325 pageviews2026-07-14 — 306 pageviews2026-07-18 — 302 pageviews2026-07-22 — 295 pageviews2026-07-26 — 265 pageviews2026-07-30 — 268 pageviews2026-08-03 — 254 pageviews2026-08-07 — 358 pageviews2026-08-11 — 311 pageviews2026-08-15 — 395 pageviews2026-08-19 — 459 pageviews2026-08-23 — 372 pageviews2026-08-27 — 287 pageviews2026-08-31 — 440 pageviews2026-09-04 — 305 pageviews2026-09-08 — 315 pageviews2026-09-12 — 241 pageviews2026-09-16 — 266 pageviews2026-09-20 — 259 pageviews2026-09-24 — 332 pageviews2026-09-28 — 371 pageviews2026-10-02 — 390 pageviews2026-10-06 — 385 pageviews2026-10-09 — 1,062 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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