DaRmaZat Day 4 Night, the studio founded by Red Dead Redemption lead designer and writer Christian Cantamessa and Mario + Rabbids creative director Davide Soliani, has announced Bradley the Badger, a genre-bending action adventure game coming to PC via Steam. Additional platforms and consoles are being explored, but no release date has been announced.
Bradley the Badger is framed as both a heartfelt tribute to videogames and a sharp satire of the medium itself. Players step into the role of Bradley, a once-beloved platforming mascot who awakens in a fractured reality filled with unfinished worlds and broken rules. Driven by a desire to return home and save his friends, Bradley embarks on a journey that gradually confronts him with deeper truths about his world, his purpose, and the creative process behind games themselves.
Gameplay blends exploration, traversal, combat, and freeform puzzle-solving across a variety of surreal environments inspired by iconic videogame genres, all filtered through a playful and self-aware narrative that even incorporates live-action elements. As Bradley navigates these half-built spaces, players collect items, complete quests, uncover secrets, and face challenges that constantly subvert expectations of traditional action adventure design.
At the core of the experience is the Kit, a powerful tool that allows Bradley to directly manipulate unfinished assets as if he were a game developer. Using the Kit, players can reshape the environment in real time by scaling objects, taking control of assets to gain new abilities, altering geometry to create paths, turning objects into explosives, or stacking and rotating elements like building blocks. These systems encourage experimentation and creative problem-solving, giving players the freedom to approach exploration, puzzles, and combat in unconventional ways.
By merging systemic gameplay with a reflective narrative about creativity, doubt, and the joy of building worlds, Bradley the Badger aims to deliver an action adventure that feels both nostalgic and boldly experimental.
