

A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights! A Hat in Time is a colorful 3D platformer starring Hat Kid, a young alien girl journeying home aboard her spaceship. Her trip is derailed when a dispute with a passing planet's Mafia bursts open her ship's door, scattering her precious Time Pieces, the magical hourglasses that fuel her vessel, across the world below. Now stranded, Hat Kid must explore vibrant and varied lands to recover the lost Time Pieces one by one. Along the way she meets a cast of quirky characters and rivals, solving puzzles and leaping through obstacle-filled worlds in her quest to gather every last hourglass and finally continue her voyage.
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Resolved, plot-driven, classical in form and warm.
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the game
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Gears for Breakfast
- Publisher
- Gears for Breakfast, Humble Games
- Released
- October 5, 2017
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 3
- Time to beat
- 13 h main story · 36 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.1/10 from 254 ratings.
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