It's an amazing casual game that is so easy to pickup. You just throw your hat to hattack and crush theirs to win, but if yours gets crush you lose. It's that easy! Even recommended to those who are new to gaming or for young children.

However, in its simplicity, it's skill ceiling is high due to characters' unique tool-sets and their techs, and how punishing and rewarding in top plays. If you're fighting against a very competitive player, getting hit once is incredibly hard to recover and will result in losing that round. It even has ROLLBACK NETCODE. Making causal and competitive online games fun!

Compare this to the Discord version while back, it has way more content with its Arcade Mode, Golf Mode, NEW CHARACTERS, NEW STAGES and additional rules and items to casually play around. In addition, it's way more polish with its GUI and and other quality of life improvements.

Overall, it's an amazing game and I'm honestly astonished to how persistent the devs are in making this game to the fullest. I wouldn't be here without the coolest and nicest people in Hat Games. It's worth the price despite it being early access.

This is coming from someone who has been in the community for almost 3 years and seen the changes and improvements the devs has done. It's inspiring!

I've been following this game in development entirely through discord for the past few years since that's where the game originated, and my steam counted hours don't reflect my total time. I have thousands of hours on this game and ive seen it through everything from ranked queues to tournaments, testing builds, and MANY MANY games in friendlies.

The game at first glance has a very intuitive menu that's easy to navigate, if you've played smash the menu is pretty similar, but the gameplay is anything but smash, it's very volatile with how fast paced fights can get, but it handles that pacing really well with its defensive mechanic of hats clanking together. The game itself can feel a little over defensive at times, but once you get an idea for how your character works, there's a ton of counterplay.

Every character brings something new to the table which keeps matches interesting, all while keeping the same idea intact which brings a variety of gameplay every time you play. There's a bunch of tech/advanced movement lots of characters can do if you want to play competitively and it makes the matches even more volatile. This can even be further expanded using the games items or special modes if you decide to mess around with those.

One thing to note is in the games current state, you will need to join the discord server if you want to find any matches because there's no in game matchmaking, although if the game succeeds this might change, and i will update my review.

Casually or competitively, King of the Hat I've witnessed throughout the years has something to show everyone and I can't recommend this game enough!

AWESOME GAME, I beta tested for this game and it was awesome!
I bought it though :)

In my honest opinion this game should be the game of the year!

The perfect game for a casual competitive group or person! Can't wait to see what new features they'll come up with.

It can be difficult for a party game to strike a balance between casual accessibility and competitive depth, but King of the Hat manages to pull this off in a fun way that shouldn't deter players on either side of the scale. At its core, the gameplay is incredibly simple: jump on your opponent's hat to win, while using your own hat as a weapon. Different characters offer unique movement and hat-throwing abilities to mix up the gameplay.

The risk/reward of using your hat as a weapon is extremely fun. When playing for the first time, I found myself gradually building up the comfort and courage to start attempting more aggressive tactics, which was super satisfying. General movement also feels very good, so you don't feel like you're fighting with the game itself. Over time, developing mastery over the movement and controlling your hat opens up the competitive depth of the game. King of the Hat's deceptive skill ceiling comes from creative use of its most basic mechanics.

Overall, it's a fun, fast-paced party game that is incredibly easy to understand and play, while still being rewarding for those who choose to stick with it.

A super easy to pick up fighting game. I highly recommend it for people who want to get into fighting games, but don't want to memorise lots of combos and such. It can be played both very casually and very competitively, and is enjoyable regardless. I propose it in most of my local multiplayer gaming nights, and it's always a hit.

I love the cast of characters. The character designs are varied, and their different abilities help to renew the gameplay.

The humor of the game is enjoyable and adds to the playfulness of it.

You will swiftly learn how bad your brain is at tracking both a hat and person/cat/blob/washing machine. 10/10, phenomenal schmoovement, more golfing levels please

Had this game back when it was sold on Discord's game store already. It's a lot of good fun and I can reccomend it to everyone.

Played the game a ton during conventions and truly glad it is finally out. Simple, addictive and butt-clenching experience. Character controller is tight and the game can be enjoy by the most casual to the try hardest of them all.

I'm a big fan of these party style games that remind me of older games I grew up with in the arcade, home consoles, and my Commodore 64. One may feel the price for this style of game is a bit high, but it does have friend passes, and quite a bit of content to unlock already, so i feel it's worth the 20 dollars.

The game has a few modes, but most people are going to gravitate to the multiplayer action, where up to 4 players select a different fighter and try to step on everyone else's hat! You also throw your hat as a weapon, and timing when to throw it, when to not throw it, and what your opponents are doing is a huge part of the tactics in this game. Every character is at least slightly different, with Birthday being the baseline and others having various bonuses and penalties comparatively.

I have a couple of minor issues that don't detract from the overall fun of the game; the money you earn currently does nothing, the abilities of each character could be a bit better defined, and it could be a little clearer as to how to change your outfit with a controller (it uses the bumpers, but found out by watching some videos). All of this is fixable and minor, making this an easy recommendation.

This one is up there with Duck Game, Stick Fight, and Rounds; chaotic multiplayer fun, and I look forward to seeing what else they add to the game.