Braid, Anniversary Edition

Braid: Anniversary Edition is the remastered version of Jonathan Blow's 2008 puzzle platformer, originally one of the games credited with sparking the modern indie boom. The Anniversary release repaints every pixel of David Hellman's artwork in high resolution, refreshes the sound effects, and adds a new world of puzzles plus extensive developer commentary.

The game's central mechanic is time manipulation. Tim, the protagonist, can rewind time on death and in puzzles. Subsequent worlds add their own time rules — one where time moves forward as you walk right and rewinds as you walk left, one where shadows replay your past actions, one where time slows near a ring you drop. Each world's puzzles are built around understanding what time does in that world, then exploiting it.

The narrative is told in cryptic book passages between worlds — the story of Tim's search for a Princess and his regrets about the past. The interpretation is famously open-ended, and the developer commentary in this edition spends serious time on what was and wasn't intentional.

15+ hours of recorded commentary from Blow, Hellman, and other team members run through the design, art, music, and writing. A new in-game world holds redesigned classic puzzles and lets you navigate the commentary. From Thekla, Inc.