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254 games like Braid

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01 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

76%

Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in a mysterious world, Little Nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must escape the Maw, an iro...

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Braid

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

71%

The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a young orphan destin...

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Braid

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

70%

Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.

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Braid

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

04 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

69%

Trine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. The gameplay is based on fully interactive physics – each character's different abilities and tactics can be...

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Braid

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Fez Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Fez

68%

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 d...

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Braid

68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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06 Tunic Cover

2022 · Mac, Switch, Switch 2

Tunic

67%

Tunic is an action adventure about a tiny fox in a big world. Explore the wilderness, discover spooky ruins, and fight terrible creatures from long ago.

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Braid

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

07 Gris Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gris

66%

Gris is a 2D platformer developed by Nomada Studio and published by Devolver Digital. It is a visually striking game that follows the journey of a young woman named Gris as she navigates a world of grief and loss. The game features no dialogue, relying on its...

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Braid

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Machinarium Cover

2009 · Android, Linux, Mac

Machinarium

65%

Machinarium is award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost and Botanicula. A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend...

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Braid

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

09 Rogue Legacy Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Rogue Legacy

64%

You control a family of characters one at a time, and when your character dies, you choose who his or her successor is, whether it is a barbarian son of yours who has OCD, your daughter who became a ninja even though she can't see well, an assassin who is figh...

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Braid

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Cover

2013 · Android, Switch, PC

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

62%

Brothers is presented from a third-person view overlooking the two brothers. The brothers are moved individually by two thumbsticks on the controller. The controller triggers also cause the respective brother to interact with the game world, such as talking to...

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Braid

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

11 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Cover
62%

Deceived by the treacherous Vizier, I was led to unleash the Sands of Time curse upon the Sultan's kingdom. With little but an ancient dagger and a devious princess to aid me, I must undo my fatal mistake. Mine is a fight for survival… not glory. • Reverse, a...

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Braid

62% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

12 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

61%

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mount...

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Braid

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Night in the Woods Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Night in the Woods

61%

Night In The Woods is an adventure game heavily focused on story, characters and exploration, with some platforming to get around town. Mae's a cat so the roofs and ledges and powerlines are all her playground, and she's not the only one up there by a long sho...

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Braid

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Unravel Cover

2016 · PC, PS4, XONE

Unravel

61%

Unravel is a game about Yarny, a tiny character born from a single thread. Yarny embarks on a big adventure into the nature, inspired by the beauty of Northern Scandinavia. Without any spoken words, the character will have to solve puzzles and use tools to ove...

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Braid

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Aquaria Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Aquaria

59%

A massive ocean world, teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater dweller in search of her family, as she explores the depths of Aquaria. She'll travel from hidden caves, shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases, a...

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Braid

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

16 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

58%

A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging...

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Braid

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Valiant Hearts: The Great War Cover

2014 · Android, Switch, PC

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

56%

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. In Valiant Hearts, the lives of all these characters are inextricab...

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Braid

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

18 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

55%

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

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Braid

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

55%

Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style. The player controls an unnamed boy navigating a dystopian environment, solving environmental puzzles, avoiding...

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Braid

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 God of War Cover

2005 · PS2

God of War

55%

God of War is an action-adventure hack-and-slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). Initially launched for the PlayStation 2, the game stands as the first instalment in the God of War series and the...

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Braid

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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