Braid Alternatives

SuperTux

SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games. Instead of Mario, the hero in this game is Tux, the mascot of the Linux kernel.

Features:

• Built-in Level Editor
• Community based
• Portable
• Single player

Limbo

Limbo (stylized as LIMBO) is a puzzle-platform video game and the premiere title of independent Danish game developer Playdead. The game was released in July 2010 as a platform exclusive title on Xbox Live Arcade, and was later re-released as part of a retail game pack along with Trials HD and 'Splosion Man in April 2011.

Features:

• Gaming
• Puzzle Games

Machinarium

Solve puzzles, quests, brain-teasers and mini-games to rid the city of the wicked Black Cap Brotherhood robots. Gorgeous hand-drawn graphics and animations bring the robot's story to life, using unique comic bubbles and symbols to convey the plot. Available in steam or website.

Features:

• Gaming
• Puzzle Games

Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat and is the successor to Edmund McMillen's and Jonathan McEntee's flash game, Meat Boy, originally released on the Newgrounds website in October 2008.

Features:

• Full controller support
• Gaming
• Single player

VVVVVV

In VVVVVV, the player controls Captain Viridian, who is lost in an alternate dimension, in search of the missing members of his spaceship's crew. Instead of jumping, the player is able to control the direction of gravity, allowing Captain Viridian to flip between the floors and ceilings of the environment. The graphical style of VVVVVV is heavily influenced by the Commodore 64; similarly, the game's music is entirely chiptune.

Frogatto & Friends

[Frogatto & Friends is free and open source on Windows and Linux, on the other platforms it costs $4.99]. Frogatto & Friends is an old-school 2D platformer game, starring a certain quixotic frog. Give it a try! It's a big adventure with all the classic fun - you fight monsters, collect coins, talk to people, and buy new stuff. Also, frogatto has a very flexible game engine you can use to make your own creations.

Features:

• 2D Game
• 8-bit Game
• Single player
• Gaming

Capsized

Capsized is a retro-inspired 2d platformer developed by Alientrap. Presented in a unique hand drawn art style. As a intrepid space traveler, you have crash landed on a mysterious planet and soon discover you are not alone.

Hollow Knight

Descend into the Dark Venture down into a beautiful, ruined world of insects and heroes Atmospheric Exploration Dive into a vast ruined system of ancient caves, crumbling cities and forgotten temples. Epic Battles against Ferocious Foes Vanquish hordes of terrifying beasts, grotesque bugs and ancient knights. Befriend Bizarre Beasts Encounter strange travellers and assist them on their own journeys towards sorrow or success.

Celeste

A game about climbing a mountain, from the creators of TowerFall 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 mountain.

Features:

• 2D Game
• Optional collectibles
• Pixel Art
• Pixel graphics

Ori and the Blind Forest

Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer. 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 destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.