How many copies has A Hat in Time sold?

indielist estimates A Hat in Time has sold between 2,693,061 and 6,283,809 units (median 4,488,435), derived from its 42,747 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published A Hat in Time?

A Hat in Time was published by Gears for Breakfast, developed by Gears for Breakfast. See Gears for Breakfast's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

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 42,747 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is A Hat in Time worth playing?

Steam players rate A Hat in Time 98% positive across 42,747 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

A Hat in Time

Oct 5, 2017 Adventure $29.99

Developer Gears for Breakfast Publisher Gears for Breakfast

Profile updated May 2026

This adventure game, released in 2017, features platforming gameplay. It has garnered 42,556 positive reviews on Steam. The developer slug is unknown.

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 42,747 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 method 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

42,747

Positive

98%

Steam appid

253230

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

139

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-07 13:11 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

2.7M to 6.3M

units (median: 4.5M)

≈ $46.1M to $107.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

2.7M median 6.3M

+ How is this calculated?

42,747 reviews × NB(105) = 4,488,435 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$30	+5
positive_98%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	105

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

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 42,747 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $76.9M 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

54 observed days · window low $14.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has A Hat in Time sold?: indielist estimates A Hat in Time has sold between 2,693,061 and 6,283,809 units (median 4,488,435), derived from its 42,747 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published A Hat in Time?: A Hat in Time was published by Gears for Breakfast, developed by Gears for Breakfast. See Gears for Breakfast's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
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 42,747 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is A Hat in Time worth playing?: Steam players rate A Hat in Time 98% positive across 42,747 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like A Hat in Time can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as A Short Hike, Pumpkin Jack, Little Kitty, Big City, Slime Rancher, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.