A Hat in Time

A cute, solid 3D platform game well worth its price. A Hat in Time has a lot of charm and its gameplay is highly satisfying. If you're looking for a collect-a-thon-style game to sink your teeth into, you should definitely get this one.

It has to be one of my precious game in my library. You can feel that it was all made with passion and competence.

I played this with my little nieces & nephews and we loved it. I'd give this 5 stars except I got soft-locked once in Queen Vanessa's manor and I didn't like how there were parts where I could not control the camera despite explicitly setting the camera control to manual in the settings (it's fine for boss levels and levels where the camera has to be fully automatic, but there were parts in levels where camera control would be taken from me without warning). It would also be nice to be able to fine tune little controls like the mouse-wheel zoom (I wished I could flip it.) It would be cool if I could play this natively on Linux, but the game seemed to run fine in Wine with only minor additional glitches (mostly the sound). The music, art, level-design, and the writing were great. I was so glad to finally have a game like this I could play on my computer.

A Hat in Time Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HcqEamGDbo

It promises 3D platforming, but delivers so much more - the game is masterfully crafted, with a lot of love gone into every level - it feels filled up with content. The only minor pitfall is camera controls, but all 3D platformers I know suffer from camera issues in some way.