Braid is from the long bygone era where indie games were few and far between, steam was a closed platform, and you had to smooch up to journalists, the clique,

Braid is from the long bygone era where indie games were few and far between, steam was a closed platform, and you had to smooch up to journalists, the clique, IGF judges, attend conventions and grind your way up to being noticed by the closed platforms of the time. Now your just a dude like the rest of them. Puzzle games are not known for the replay value. And replaying a puzzle game when theres so many amazing spanking new and not so new unplayed games... nah a predictable outcome really