A Hat in Time
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $14.08.
- Length
- 9.4h
- Value
- $3.19/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was April 2019. It has been discounted 58 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. No sale on record has reached $14.08, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Short Hike ($7.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Yooka-Laylee ($19.99, scores 40).
79 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
23 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,048 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,661 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.4 hours. Doing everything runs 19, 2.0 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
226 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Hat in time is so good i bought it twice. Once on switch and again on pc. The modding scene is crazy and amazing. HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ONE.
Played this game years ago as a child when it first came out and it was really fun and wonderful, but due to my horrible shabby Macbook that couldn't even run properly, Steam never registered any of the achievements for me and the game always crashed when I tried fighting the Conductor/DJ Grooves every time. Now it's years later and with all the DLCs bought, I started a new save and genuinely 100%'d everything (even...
An incredibly well-made platformer! Indie platformers are hard to get right, so big props to the devs for making this game FEEL good to play. It took me a bit to get used to the air dash but once I mastered it, I was practically flying across the levels! And that's not me bragging but rather a compliment to the devs for making the platforming so tight and fun to master! I also really loved how each world feels...
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Cite this score
A Hat in Time scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/253230/a-hat-in-timeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Oct 1.
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