Steam Sale and Braid

If you haven't heard, there's an amazing sale going on via Steam. I picked up some gifts for friends and had to get Braid for myself. I know there's been so much critical acclaim for this game in the past year, even by myself, but as yet I haven't played it yet. But I picked it up on Steam, and wow.

Braid is hauntingly beautiful, evoking emotion with its music and visual design. The story, told in book chapters, is equally good. Just played through the first world, and the gameplay is solid and the tricks with the time-shifting mechanic are innovative and seriously wow-inducing.

If you have not played this game, you owe it to yourself to give it a go.