A Hat in Time

A Hat in Time

Gears for Breakfast · 2017 · Cute, 3D Platformer, Collectathon, Great Soundtrack, Funny

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Overwhelmingly Positive98% · 42,72379Metacritic219playing now
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About A Hat in Time

✦ AI summary

Play as Hat Kid, a tiny space traveler who stitches magical hats with unique powers to recover her stolen Time Pieces across vibrant worlds. Every mission is wildly different—from solving a murder mystery on a train to sneaking through a movie studio—making this 3D platformer feel fresh and surprising at every turn.


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!

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 16, 2026
gears for breakfast come back i miss you
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Recommended Jul 16, 2026
A Hat in Time é um jogo muuuuuito lindo É um jogo que não se importa em ser grandioso, visto que dá pra zerar em poucas horas, a verdadeira intenção dele é homenagear e trazer de volta os velhos tempos de jogatina que tivemos com Mario e Banjo-Kazooie. Lembra daquele gênero de aventura 3D no qual exploramos diferentes lugares em busca de coletar itens necessários para alavancar na campanha? A Hat in Time resgata essa essência e executa com muita paixão e carinho, nossa me senti extremamente acolhido jogando, só faltou ganhar um abraço. Os mundos não são muitos mas é gostoso de explorar, objetivos divertidos de completar e cada um com a sua distinta temática que vai de cidade de mafiosos a sets de filmagem. Ainda tem mais dois mundos que vem em forma de DLC e as duas me desapontaram um pouco, Seal the Deal é tão ridícula de curta que não passa de um filler no cruzeiro, já Nyakuza Metro vai pelo lado oposto, QUE EXPANSÃO DAORA, ela traz um lugar lindo e disparado o meu mundo favorito, personagem intrigante e novos cosméticos. Uma baita DLC que traz muita coisa... pena que ele acaba abruptamente depois de todo o clímax ser construído, tipo, os cara me faz um DLC superior a anter…
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Not recommended Jul 17, 2026
It's just such a short game, and inconsistent. It's not really a kids game, since it has some mature themes and innuendos, but it's still a kids game in the style of old 90s and early-00s like your Marios, Banjoo-Kazooies, and/or Jak & Dexters (Ratchet & Clank). But those games have core villains and a basic story-structure. Basic gameplay McGuffins to keep the player engaged and going, and way. way more "collectibles." It *almost* gets there. But the length. Too short -- only 5 or 6 levels "proper" levels (One is paid, expensive DLC) when it felt like there should be more like 12 to 20. Felt like there should've been a Bowser or Gruntilda to lean into the games cartoon-i-ness, but I digress. It's really a good, albeit basic modern platformer game, but overrated. Overrated af tbh-- Kinda' reminds me of Blinx: The Time Sweeper. Remember Blinx!?!?!??!
Recommended Jul 16, 2026
decent
Recommended Jul 16, 2026
i like to revisit this game every year or so and replay it to completion. simple story, enjoyable gameplay, etc etc great game etc etc
Recommended Jul 16, 2026
never really was a fan of platformers. But it didn't stopped me from having a lot of fun playing this game

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