Games similar to Braid

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Take a look at some of the most similar games below.

Backworlds
Apply dimension-switching strokes of paintbrush to explore a dual world of platforming puzzles.
The Rabbit and The Owl
Explore a fading world fractured between positive and negative space.
Öoo
Use bombs to launch yourself into the air and perform joyful caterpillar tricks.
Thomas Was Alone
Help sentient, rectangular AIs find companionship within a puzzle-platforming mainframe.
Oneli
Jump and clip through walls, for better or worse.
Leap Year: March
Jump your way through another month's worth of clumsy, puzzly platforming.
DYO
Split and unite both halves of the screen to guide two minotaurs out of an impossible maze.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Guide the jumpless Captain Toad and Toadette through diorama-like levels filled with hazards.
ibb & obb
Join forces with a friend to traverse levels where two gravities coexist.
Manifold Garden
Solve physics-defying puzzles in an abstract world of infinite architecture.
Mind Over Magnet
From video essayist GMTK, a puzzle-platformer about a robot and his magnet friend escaping a factory.
+1
Pick up health tokens to reach new rooms and discover movement techniques.
Atlantis no Puzzle
Recover the fabled treasure of Atlantis, learning the rules of its mysterious items.
Leap Year
Discover the secrets of falling in a platforming world where a plain jump could kill you.
Recursed
The rooms are items and the items are rooms in this recursive platformer.
Blue Prince
Search for Room 46 in a mysterious manor where the rooms are different each time you enter.
Gorogoa
Assemble vignettes to explore a hand-drawn story.
Murder at the Birch Tree Theater
Uncover the sinister story of a community theater and its troubled musical productions.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book
Discover the abilities of quirky creatures living inside a mysterious encyclopedia.
Quern - Undying Thoughts
Uncover the secrets of Quern, solving contraption puzzles in this first-person puzzle adventure.
Viewfinder
Reshape the world with photographs in this first-person puzzler.
Lumino City
Explore an enchanting city through a series of dazzling handcrafted dioramas.
The Swapper
Clone yourself and transfer consciousness in this sci-fi narrative puzzler.
Elementalist
Collect orbs granting you one-time abilities to complete platforming conundrums.
Disconcordia
Sift through messages and servers in a mock Discord interface to solve this MMO-game mystery.
Family
Shift through interview snippets and music tracks to identify band members from a fictional indie scene.
Rivals
Piece together the lives and careers of two musicians across 15 years' worth of written and audio material.
Nomori
Rotate portals and record object movement to navigate a whimsical spirit world.
Portal
Solve test chambers with a portal gun in this first-person classic.
The Pedestrian
A puzzle-platformer set within a world of interconnected street signs.

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