
10-Minute Retirement: If Hat Kid runs away after Mustache Girl's judgement, a short "Fake Game Over" will play until Hat Kid's friends give the the resolve to fight Mustache Girl. The DLC was also given away for free for the day of its launch. A Co-op mode that introduced the second player character of Bow Kid into the game released on the same day. It contains chapter 6, The Arctic Cruise, and the promised challenge mode called Death Wish, which contains a collection of contracts from the Snatcher mostly remixing older levels and giving cosmetic rewards for many of the challenges. The first major DLC pack, called Seal The Deal, was released on September 13th 2018. A port for Nintendo Switch was also released on October 18th, 2019. The game was released in Octofor PC, Mac, and was released on Decemfor PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Despite borrowing from so much, the game was praised for initially advertising its influences, but then being very original and having its own identity to stand out instead of just rehashing what these games made.
A Hat in Time is a Spiritual Successor and Genre Throwback to the Collect-a-Thon Platformers of The Fifth Generation of Console Video Games, including Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon, and Donkey Kong 64, though with a brightly colored cel-shaded visual style reminiscent of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.