48. Braid (X360, PS3, Windows, Mac, your mom)
One of the first XBLA games to really become a critical and commercial success, Braid single handedly raised the bar for what is to be expected from a downloadable game. It fairly oozes with charm thanks to its painterly visual style and pitch perfect acoustic soundtrack, both of which represented a quantum leap in quality over previous downloadables, which were largely either ports of ancient games or cheaply made new ones. Far from being a triumph of style over substance, though, Braid also boasts brilliant timeshifting gameplay and is one of the most devilishly clever puzzle-platformers around. The story is vague and impressively evocative, and culminates in the single most profoundly mindfucking plot twist in the history of the universe. Amazingly, it does all this while managing to only be a tad bit pretentious. That's no mean feat because Jonathan Blow is kind of a twat.
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