A Hat in Time
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This adventure game, released in 2017, features platforming gameplay. It has garnered 42,556 positive reviews on Steam. The developer slug is unknown.
Overview
A Hat in Time is a 2017 Adventure game developed by Gears for Breakfast and published by Gears for Breakfast. On Steam it has gathered 42,589 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Gears for Breakfast with publisher Gears for Breakfast is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.7 million to 6.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, A Hat in Time can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
42,589
Positive
98%
Steam appid
253230
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.02.7M to 6.3M
units (median: 4.5M)
≈ $46.0M to $107.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for A Hat in Time at roughly 2.7 million to 6.3 million copies, with a median around 4.5 million, derived from its 42,589 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $76.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $19.84Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $19.84 to $29.99, averaging $28.74 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $19.84 on 2026-06-01.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Cute3D PlatformerCollectathonGreat SoundtrackFemale ProtagonistFunnyAdventureIndiePlatformerColorfulExplorationThird PersonSingleplayerCo-opModdableOpen WorldComedyFamily FriendlyActionKickstarter
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has A Hat in Time sold?
- indielist estimates A Hat in Time has sold between 2,683,107 and 6,260,583 units (median 4,471,845), derived from its 42,589 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed A Hat in Time?
- A Hat in Time was developed by Gears for Breakfast and published by Gears for Breakfast.
- When was A Hat in Time released?
- A Hat in Time was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does A Hat in Time have on Steam?
- A Hat in Time has 42,589 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has A Hat in Time sold?
- indielist estimates A Hat in Time has sold between 2,683,107 and 6,260,583 units (median 4,471,845), derived from its 42,589 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed A Hat in Time?
- A Hat in Time was developed by Gears for Breakfast and published by Gears for Breakfast.
- When was A Hat in Time released?
- A Hat in Time was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does A Hat in Time have on Steam?
- A Hat in Time has 42,589 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions A Hat in Time within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Gears for Breakfast's other releases and Gears for Breakfast's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where A Hat in Time sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same A Hat in Time page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.