Braid Anniversary Edition vs Composition
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Braid Anniversary Edition
Manipulate time to solve intricate platform puzzles in this remastered indie classic. Explore beautifully painted worlds, uncover memories, and enjoy extensive creator commentary. Assemble jigsaw pieces and overcome challenges with unique time-bending mechanics.
- Time manipulation mechanics
- Subtle platform puzzles
- Refreshed high-resolution graphics
- Extensive creator commentary
- Jigsaw puzzle collection
- Haunting, evocative score
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Control the flow of time to solve subtle platform puzzles in this update of the indie classic "Braid," featuring refreshed artwork and seriously in-depth creator commentary. Travel from a city house through a series of interconnected worlds where time behaves strangely, searching for an elusive Princess. Along the way you'll explore memories and regrets that still haunt you. This Anniversary Edition remaster of the award-winning platformer contains fully repainted high-resolution graphics, new sound effects and extensive audio commentary. Rewind, pause and use the strange properties of time in each world to run and jump through beautifully painted environments. Avoid hazards, unlock doors and collect jigsaw puzzle pieces to assemble. If you get hung up on a particular puzzle, feel free to move on and return later. This is the game you remember, with all the original challenges and the same haunting, evocative score — but repainted pixel by pixel so that each carefully rendered world comes to life in high resolution. New visual details, animated brushstroke effects and revamped sounds add to the immersive experience. Explore the most extensive developer commentary ever put into a game, with over 15 hours of recorded insight and conversation from developer Jonathan Blow, artist David Hellman and more members of the "Braid" creative team. Navigate it by visiting a new in-game world, which also contains new puzzles and redesigns of classic puzzles.
Composition
Engage in a unique puzzle game where drawing lines traps bouncing dots, transforming each completed board into a work of art. Compete daily, race friends, and collaborate on canvases. Unlock the full experience with a single purchase.
- Daily puzzle boards
- Competitive leaderboards
- Multiplayer collaboration
- Gallery of completed paintings
- Offline play
- Siri integration
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EVERY GAME BECOMES A PAINTING Draw lines to trap the bouncing dots, and every board you finish becomes a painting with its own title, like “Composition No. 2 with Yellow, Red, and Blue.” Every day the whole world gets the same board for free. You swipe and a line grows both ways from your finger. If a dot hits it before it’s finished, it breaks. Close off a space with no dots in it and it fills with paint. Paint three quarters of the open canvas and the painting is yours. You get three tries at each day’s board. Mondays are gentle, and the week builds to Saturday. If your friends have played, you race whoever is just ahead of you, and when you finish you can lay their lines over yours in pencil to see how they did it. Your first painting hangs in your gallery, and your fastest time is kept. You can also paint one canvas together, with up to three of you: passing one phone around, on your own phones in the same room, or taking turns from far away, a line at a time. The full edition is one purchase, shared with your family. It opens every board since No. 1, all sixty Solo levels, painting far away with two friends, and whatever we add later. Today’s board stays free either way. • A daily leaderboard, a daily challenge and ten achievements in Game Center. • Widgets for today’s board and your paintings. • Siri can start today’s board or tell you how you did. • Today’s board and Solo work offline. No ads, no account needed. Terms of Use: https://playcomposition.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://playcomposition.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Composition at Free against Braid Anniversary Edition's $4.99. Composition also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Braid Anniversary Edition's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Composition is free to download; Braid Anniversary Edition costs $4.99 up front. Composition sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Braid Anniversary Edition asks for nothing beyond the download.
Composition holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Braid Anniversary Edition has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Braid Anniversary Edition | Composition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.1 GB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thekla, inc. | Babs Technologies Inc. |
Customer experience
Braid Anniversary Edition
Composition
In-app purchases
Braid Anniversary Edition
No in-app purchases
Composition
- The full edition$15.00
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