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Braid, Anniversary Edition
Give it 4 hours
Gets good by 4h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 87% of owners
Steam reviews 92% positive of 1,935
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 7 reviews are negative (15%); after 7h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised less than in 83% of games we track.
- 87% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,958 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 6h for positive, 4.5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (86.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (13)
- Traversed World 2 Travel to the end of World 2. 100%
- Traversed World 3 Travel to the end of World 3. 70%
- Solved World 2 Complete the puzzle for World 2. 68%
- Solved World 3 Complete the puzzle for World 3. 54%
- Traversed World 4 Travel to the end of World 4. 51%
- Traversed World 5 Travel to the end of World 5. 43%
- Solved World 4 Complete the puzzle for World 4. 42%
- Traversed World 6 Travel to the end of World 6. 39%
- Solved World 5 Complete the puzzle for World 5. 37%
- Solved World 6 Complete the puzzle for World 6. 34%
- Closure Complete the game. 34%
- Solved World 7 Complete the puzzle for World 7. 6.4%
- Speed Run Complete a full speed run, beating the challenge time. 2.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.