A Hat In Time

by Gears for Breakfast

A Hat In Time is a charming 3D platformer about Hat Kid, a young space traveler stranded on a strange planet after her fuel — magical hourglasses called Time Pieces — is scattered across the world. From the crime-ridden Mafia Town to the haunted Subcon Forest, from the glitzy Dead Bird Studio to the peaks of Alpine Skyline, Hat Kid must outwit villains, make questionable deals with ghosts, and collect every last Time Piece to get back home.

39 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Badge Seller — A masked, glitching figure who appears in every corner of the world selling magical badges -- their body spasms, their mask rotates, and nobody knows
• Bow Kid — Hat Kid's co-pilot and partner in Time Piece recovery -- equally capable, equally tiny, and distinguished by a big red bow where Hat Kid wears a top h
• Cooking Cat — A culinary feline hiding in the rafters of Mafia HQ, secretly replacing the Mafia's terrible food so nobody dies -- and hosting a TV cooking show on t
• DJ Grooves — A disco-obsessed penguin film director who has lost every Annual Bird Movie Award except one -- and he is absolutely certain the Conductor cheated eve
• Express Owls — The Conductor's owl crew who ride the Owl Express and star in his films -- they serve as actors, stagehands, suspects, and occasionally hostile enemie
• Fire Spirits — Fox-like fire spirits who dance around bonfires in Subcon Forest, creating impassable walls of flame -- feed them paintings of people and they might l
• Hat Kid — A tiny alien girl stranded far from home -- armed with an umbrella, a collection of magical hats, and the unshakable confidence that she can fix every
• Mafia Boss — The stout, cleaver-wielding leader of the Mafia of Cooks who conquered an entire island for his seafood restaurant -- and ended up mashed into a jar b
• Mafia Goons — The bald, burly enforcers of the Mafia of Cooks -- they conquered an island, built a restaurant empire, and still cannot figure out how to cook withou
• Metro Cats — The Empress's feline gang network running Nyakuza Metro -- they gossip, sell food, guard stations, and will chase you through the entire subway system
• Moon Penguins — DJ Grooves' loyal penguin entourage -- terrible actors who can inexplicably hover and snap their fingerless flippers, devoted to their director despit
• Mustache Girl — A self-proclaimed freedom fighter with a glued-on mustache and a dangerously simple worldview -- anyone with power is evil, and she will burn the worl
• Nomads — Small hooded goat creatures who guide travelers through Alpine Skyline -- they need Hat Kid to blow the summit horns because the altitude makes them t
• Queen Vanessa — A shadow-wreathed queen frozen in jealous rage -- she saw her prince with a florist, assumed the worst, and turned an entire kingdom into a haunted to
• Rumbi — Hat Kid's loyal roomba -- it vacuums the spaceship, drops Pons when hit, and will spin in circles with you riding on top if you bump it into a wall.
• Snatcher's Minions — Small stuffed doll creatures bound by soul contracts to serve the Snatcher -- former forest residents whose spirits were sewn into plush bodies as per
• Subcon Dwellers — Serpentine mask-wearing spirits haunting Subcon Forest -- the silent, ghostly remnants of the kingdom that Vanessa's jealousy destroyed.
• The Conductor — A foul-tempered owl movie director who has won every Annual Bird Movie Award except one -- and will absolutely endanger child actors to win the next.
• The Empress — An unnaturally tall cat crime lord who runs Nyakuza Metro's underground empire from a jewelry store -- cross her and she will kill you instantly, no e
• The Snatcher — A colossal shadow spirit who steals souls and forces victims into deadly contracts -- but beneath the theatrical menace is a heartbroken prince who lo

Locations

• Alpine Skyline — A breathtaking chain of floating mountain peaks connected by ziplines and hookshot points -- the game's only true open-world area, where goats roam an
• Dead Bird Studio — A sprawling movie studio split between two rival directors -- one side is western sets and train stations, the other is disco stages and parade floats
• Goat Village — The central hub of Alpine Skyline -- a cozy mountain settlement of red-roofed houses where goats roam, Nomads point the way, and ziplines launch you t
• Hat Kid's Spaceship — A flying house in space -- Hat Kid's custom-built home that doubles as a hub world, runs on Time Pieces, and collects stray characters like a cosmic l
• Mafia Headquarters — A fortress built atop Mafia Town's central geyser -- part restaurant, part throne room, part theatrical boss arena where the Mafia Boss settles things
• Mafia Town — An island paradise conquered by bald thugs who cannot cook -- a sun-drenched Mediterranean town built around a geyser, where every restaurant serves t
• Nyakuza Metro — An underground cat-run subway system where every station is a different color, every train is a platforming challenge, and the crime boss runs her emp
• Queen Vanessa's Manor — A frozen mansion where a shadow queen hunts you through dark hallways and your only option is to hide -- the single scariest level in a game about a g
• Subcon Forest — A haunted forest where a heartbroken shadow steals your soul, fire foxes dance around bonfires, and the frozen ruins of a love story gone wrong hide b
• Subcon Village — A frozen ghost town in the heart of Subcon Forest -- once a thriving community, now populated only by silent masked spirits and the bonfire dances of
• The Owl Express — The Conductor's famous train -- part movie set, part actual locomotive, and the site of a murder mystery where the director himself is the most likely
• Time's End — Mustache Girl's stolen reality -- a floating castle in a broken sky where she judges every character in the game and sorts them into 'good' and 'bad'

Items

• Brewing Hat — A witch's hat that lets Hat Kid cook explosive potions and throw them -- the solution to every obstacle covered in warning tape.
• Dweller's Mask — A ghostly fox mask that lets Hat Kid see invisible platforms and hidden secrets -- the one hat ability that works even in Queen Vanessa's Manor.
• Hookshot Badge — A badge that turns Hat Kid's umbrella into a grappling hook -- found in the Subcon Well and required for virtually everything in Alpine Skyline.
• Kid's Hat — Hat Kid's signature purple top hat -- her pride and joy, her identity, and a magical compass that points toward the nearest Time Piece.
• Pons — The shimmering currency of Hat Kid's world -- green gems buy badges, red ones heal wounds, and special purple ones fuel Time Rifts.
• Time Pieces — Hourglass-shaped fuel cells that power Hat Kid's spaceship -- scattered across the planet after a Mafia shakedown gone wrong, and coveted by everyone
• Umbrella — Hat Kid's primary weapon -- stolen from a Mafia Goon at the start of the game, it serves as sword, hookshot anchor, and fall-damage negator depending

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