Braid, Anniversary Edition
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7870, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.79. That was January 2026. 24 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nocturnal ($16.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Greak: Memories of Azur ($3.99, scores 53).
Steam's global achievement data puts 87 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 423 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 355 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
87% start to 87% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 18:52 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Braid, Anniversary Edition scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/499180/braid-anniversary-editionReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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