During The Game Awards’ Opening Act, the 30-minute pre-show before the show-show begins, developer Day 4 Night unveiled a quirky little trailer for a super-nostalgic 3D platformer with a cute little badger trying to save his home. Move over, Mario and Donkey Kong, because there’s a new jumpman in town … or the woods–wherever badgers live.
Bradley the Badger is an upcoming action-adventure platform that, according to its Steam Store page, is a “love letter to games.” More specifically, the game is this hodgepodge of game-development ideas and faux pas. There are unfinished game worlds you’ll have to put back together, “under review” cathedrals you’ll have to explore, and copious enemies to find as you do it all.
As the trailer continues, they are fascinating worlds with funny names: Badgerborne, Cyberbadger, The Last Badger, and the like, all based on tropey game concepts. It’s a little reminiscent of Hazelight Studios’ Split Fiction.
The best part? Bradley the Badger is voiced by Evan Peters, the American actor who portrays Peter “Quicksilver” Maximoff in various Marvel films, from Deadpool 2 to X-Men: Apocalypse to Dark Phoenix.
Bradley the Badger will be available on Steam, though no other platforms and no release date was confirmed at the time of its announcement. That said, you can wishlist the game on Steam now.
The Game Awards are officially underway, and the world premieres are rolling in. Capcom’s Pragmata is coming to Nintendo Switch in April 2026, Jämmerdal Games revealed a first-person souls-like called Decrepit, and GPTRACK50 has a new third-person action-zombie game with possibly the best title ever: Stupid Never Dies.