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A Hat in Time
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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
56 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I've played this game repeatedly, and it's ruined other 3D platformers for me. Peak.”
“If I had a nickel for every hat based collectathon platformer released in 2017 with a somewhat silent protagonist and great movement and overall amazing gameplay, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird…”
“The best 3D Platformer in existence, good story, good workshops, I love the DLCs, fell in love with the characters, gameplay is always fun, difficulty is the PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN DIFFICULT AND EASY, voice acting is…”
25 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The best 3D Platformer in existence, good story, good workshops, I love the DLCs, fell in love with the characters, gameplay is always fun, difficulty is the PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN DIFFICULT AND EASY, voice acting is…”
“This game is really good. One of its biggest strengths is the world design. The game consists of four creative and fun worlds, each with its own unique atmosphere and ideas. I like that there is one based on the…”
“An amazing platforming game with a wonderful soundtrack. Reminds me a lot of Super Mario Galaxy. It's just the right mix between fun and challenging with lots to offer and collect. The story is pretty simple, you play…”
23 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This game is really good. One of its biggest strengths is the world design. The game consists of four creative and fun worlds, each with its own unique atmosphere and ideas. I like that there is one based on the…”
“I don't think I've ever played a game so cozy. The atmosphere, the music, the comedy. It is near perfect. Would love to see a sequel.”
“A fun and artful platforming collect-a-thon. The worlds and levels do a good job differentiating themselves to make each one memorable. Platforming and movement feel really good; the times it didn't were few and far…”
20 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I've played this game repeatedly, and it's ruined other 3D platformers for me. Peak.”
“The best 3D Platformer in existence, good story, good workshops, I love the DLCs, fell in love with the characters, gameplay is always fun, difficulty is the PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN DIFFICULT AND EASY, voice acting is…”
“one of the best 3d platformers out there. good story, good workshops, I love the DLCs, fell in love with the characters, gameplay is always fun, literally what other reason would not convince you not to get the game if…”
15 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The best 3D Platformer in existence, good story, good workshops, I love the DLCs, fell in love with the characters, gameplay is always fun, difficulty is the PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN DIFFICULT AND EASY, voice acting is…”
“An amazing platforming game with a wonderful soundtrack. Reminds me a lot of Super Mario Galaxy. It's just the right mix between fun and challenging with lots to offer and collect. The story is pretty simple, you play…”
“I don't think I've ever played a game so cozy. The atmosphere, the music, the comedy. It is near perfect. Would love to see a sequel.”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“When i last played it on steam I experinced a lot of bugs, But i have spent hundreds of hours on switch so i genuinely reccomend fighting the game till it functions because it is that good.”
“Great platformer. As of 2026 seems to have a lot of issues. Every time I launched the game something different was broken. Resolution problems, input detected message every time I press a button on my controller, action…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“O jogo é bom, só é decepcionante o coop online não ser igual ao local.”
“For those that dont want to read, TLDR: This game is fun, and will challenge you if you want to fully 100% this game. Recommended to pickup when it goes on sale, and best experienced with the dlc. Additionally, it has a…”
“this is such a fun game1 i only had this on switch until yesterday, and wow does the steam versilon give more oppurtinites! upset that online play and vannes urses are only computer, but other than that the mods ,…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Wonderful OST and movement feels satisfying. The story (relies too much on trying to make you laugh) and sometimes even the level design (seems somewhat inspired by Super Mario Sunshine and Psychonauts which is great!…”
“Really fun and charming platformer! The hats really add a lot to the moment-to-moment gameplay (Even if you're mainly just using the Sprint Hat all the time...), but I don't care for the fact that the Hookshot Badge is…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Great platformer. As of 2026 seems to have a lot of issues. Every time I launched the game something different was broken. Resolution problems, input detected message every time I press a button on my controller, action…”
“This game is really great and all BUT GOD DOES THE CAMERA MAKE ME WANT TO KILL MYSELF”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 97.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“Really fun platformer, many parts of it reminded me of Super Mario Galaxy which was a pleasant surprise. Definitely worth playing if you enjoy the genre, but that's a no brainer. A pecking good time!!”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“[h2]The difference between A Hat in Time and a giant company making 3D platformers like Nintendo it's purely capital. This game has all the great qualities required for a great platformer.[/h2] It controls great, have a lot of charm, excellent musical pieces. In fact, if Super…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played“this game is genuinely peak, i find it so much more fun than every single mario 3D platformer and I stand by that, this game is awesome and i have replayed it so many times by now, played many mods, showed so many friends, listened to the entire ost, all of it, i LOVE and ADORE…”
— a player, Steam review · 156 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:14 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
A Hat in Time - Winter Event 2025 is live!
The Winter Event returns again for 2025, bringing with it Death Wish challenges for some awesome rewards, and double the sticker drop rate in Vanessa's Curse!
A Summer event hotfix patch is available for A Hat in Time
Changelog Fixed summer death wish contracts being limited to 100 level ups Fixed Summer Death Wish contracts repeating more often than intended at lower levels
A hotfix patch is available for A Hat in Time
Hi all, hope you're enjoying the summer! Today we have a small selection of fixes for the Summer Event: Change List Fixed the max summer event contract level being capped at 20. It is now uncapped as
2025 Summer Event for A Hat in Time is now live!
Enjoy more than 100 community-made levels in the new Summer Event map, available from June 26th (now!) to July 31st! Play the new map to obtain the rewards from last year: - A sticker (level-up!) - 2
April 2025 minor update for A Hat in Time
A minor update is available for A Hat in Time! Changes Gameplay Fixed a stutter that would occur during the level intro sequence. Fixed setting Depth of Field to none in Graphics Settings negatively a
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Cute · 3D Platformer · Collectathon · Great Soundtrack · Female Protagonist · Funny · Adventure · Indie · Platformer · Colorful · Exploration · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English * , German, Korean, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 46 |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://hatintime.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 64-bit only Processor: 3.0 GHz processor Memory: 4 GB RAM DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 8 GB available space