Adventure · October 5, 2017

A Hat in Time (2017)

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A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers. A little girl and her spaceship In A Hat in Time you play as a tiny space-travelling girl with a big tophat. Her adventure is halted when all her fuel, the Time Pieces, is lost and scattered across a nearby planet. Hat Kid must now jump, fight and stitch new hats to make her way into every nook and cranny of this new world in order to restore her fuel and resume her journey. On her way, she'll bump into the menacing Mafia of Cooks, the goofy birds of Dead Bird Studio, the spooky shadows of Subcon Forest, and more! Murder on a train! Parades! Trespassing in a movie studio? Every mission in A Hat in Time is unique! At one moment you'll be solving the Murder on the Owl Express by finding clues and interrogating the locals, the next moment you'll be the band marshal in The Big Parade , or sneaking through the bird-run Dead Bird Studio ! Small child, giant worlds Jump freely around in 5 massive worlds with new adventures to discover around every corner! Just like any child, Hat Kid loves to climb and explore, no mountain is too big for her sense of adventure. She can do multiple jump moves, as well as climb walls, and swing over gaps! Cute hats, magical yarn and snappy badges By finding and collecting rare magical yarn, Hat Kid can stitch new cute hats with a variety of abilities, including a witch hat that allows her to cook explosive concoctions, and a wooden ghost mask that allows her to peek into other dimensions. Hats can become even more powerful, by attaching badges that are found, sold and traded by the locals! Community-funded, community-focused A Hat in Time was successfully funded on Kickstarter, reaching nearly 10 times its goal! In order to celebrate our community, A Hat in Time is releasing with full modding and Steam Workshop support, an in-game screenshot mode, and more!

Adventure releases from 2017

78 Adventure titles launched in 2017 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume51.7k Steam reviewsTop 4% in Adventure
Positive rating98% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 8%
Metacritic79/100Genre average 77 — top 49% of Adventure titles
Concurrent peak131 playersTop 18% in Adventure by live player count
Engagement hours21 h averageTop 16% for session depth among Adventure

Peer Adventure titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Cute · 1.5k
  • 3D Platformer · 1.2k
  • Collectathon · 1.0k
  • Great Soundtrack · 906
  • Female Protagonist · 809
  • Funny · 779
  • Adventure · 775
  • Indie · 756
  • Platformer · 709
  • Colorful · 533
  • Exploration · 525
  • Third Person · 500
  • Singleplayer · 456
  • Co-op · 435
  • Moddable · 419

Reception Metrics

Steam community

98%Overwhelmingly Positive · 51.7k reviews

50.7k positive · 1.0k negative

Metacritic

79/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.2/10

Curator recommendations

42.1k

Peak concurrent players

131

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English volume_up
  • German
  • Korean
  • French
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese - Portugal
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Spanish - Latin America volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Spanish - Latin America

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud
  • Stats

Accessibility

  • Captions available

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player

Press Quotes

“A Hat in Time is marvelous. It is so much fun.” 8.5/10 – Destructoid “I was enamored from minute one. Hat in Time bursts onto the screen and into my heart, from the standout character designs to the lovely premise.” Eurogamer Recommends – Eurogamer

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

21h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

9h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

46

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateOct 5, 2017
DeveloperGears for Breakfast
PublisherGears for Breakfast, Humble Games
Base price$14.99 -50%
DLC / Add-ons6 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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