Braid (Mac) Rating: 4.3 ( 11 votes cast) Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where the player manipulates the flow of time in strange and unusual ways.

Braid for Mac lies within Games, more precisely Puzzle. Our built-in antivirus scanned this Mac download and rated it as virus free. This Mac application is a product of Hothead Games Inc. Braid has been haunting me for several years, as I downloaded and played through the demo from Steam around when it came out, but I’m (still, haha) on a Mac 10.4.11, and on Steam it said the requirements were 10.5 and higher, so I balked t buying it because of course I didn’t want to waste money on something I couldn’t play.

There are Cider ports that have taken more time than Hothead did on Braid. Yessss, purchased!!! Finally i can’t believe it. Thanks for porting this great game. Mac pro best buy.

The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more. Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world. • Forgiving yet challenging gameplay: Braid is a 2-D platform game where you can never die and never lose. Despite this, Braid is challenging—but the challenge is about solving puzzles, rather than forcing you to replay tricky jumps. • Rich puzzle environment: Travel through a series of worlds searching for puzzle pieces, then solving puzzles by manipulating time: rewinding, creating parallel universes, setting up pockets of dilated time.

For the hardcore platform gamers, the only real criticism is that the jumping feels a little imprecise sometimes, but it's hardly a big issue and doesn't spoil what is one of the best gaming experiences you'll have this year. With its thoughtful story, beautiful graphics and excellent gameplay, Braid should be top of everyone's list of what to play next.

3, I’d love to use a gamepad, but is there anyway of getting around the admin restrictions so I can install some drivers? I’m not optimistic about this one. If only a PS3 version was in development, then none of these would be an issue!

What's New in Braid. Explore the human condition and manipulate time in the lush, painterly world of Braid, a puzzle-platformer that takes you from a house in the city on a journey through a series of worlds to solve puzzles and rescue the princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, including the ability to rewind, create parallel realities, and utilize time dilation. There is no filler in this game; every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.

Playing through it, I simply could not get enough. This game was pure brilliance, and well worth the purchase. Thank you so much!

Half the battle is figuring out how to gain access to the given location on the screen where the piece is held and the other half is actually executing your plan. Neither are easy. On my 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, Braid ran predictably well. Judging by its old school graphics and gameplay, I imagine that it could run on many lesser Mac models without a problem.

I expected more pictures to be incorporated into the gameplay though I’m glad this game makes you think about the puzzles like that rather than making it so easy like spoon feeding us solutions using a walk through would have. Satisfaction with solving the puzzles is that much greater. I think the timing of things was the more difficult aspect of the game, rather than thinking of how to solve the world’s problem. To each his own though. I played the demo and wigged around for a while in the first level too. I was thinking about those puzzle pieces “surely i can get them now, this doesn’t seem like i need to bring some special power back from some future level” I did what mikey did, literally gaped mouth openi think it was like, what else is there to do might as well build the puzzle, then you re-wind and jump again and boom – on a platform.

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where the player manipulates the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more. Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.