Braid, Anniversary Edition
Last updated: 2025-12-24
- Exceptional puzzle design praised by players
- High-quality remastered visuals and audio
- Emotional and intertwined narrative experience
- Puzzles too difficult or obscure for some
- Lack of new content in remaster
- Poor controls and platforming frustrations
Emotions
Frustration19%Appreciation10%Disappointment9%Satisfaction8%Admiration8%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,557
- Positive
- 1,45793.6%
- Negative
- 1006.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 112,798
- Estimated revenue
- $2,254,832
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 244.51%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,739
- Estimated revenue lost
- $34,763
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 244.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 366.8% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 438.1% Avg playtime 7.5h | 42980.6% Avg playtime 12h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 69.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 588.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
532 total
Organic purchasers47889.8%
Voted up: 89%
Key activations5410.2%
Voted up: 74%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
532 total
First impression0-2h8516.0%
Voted up: 71%
Mid game2-10h32761.5%
Voted up: 88%
Late game10-20h7514.1%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+458.46%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
83.3%
Global baseline 87.4%
42 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,557 total.