No Mutants Allowed

IIRC, it's supposed to be a Rareware-style collect-a-thon, ala Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Conker's Bad Fur Day, et cetera.

Seems to have been the Shovel Knight of this era of the comeback of the 3D platformer, though.

It looks really amateurish and ugly.

It's an Unreal Engine 3 game developed on a budget of less than $300k by a team of eight people. For those criteria, it looks pretty damn good.

Add.: Actually, it's more like less than $165k, since about 45% of Kickstarter money tends to go to taxes, business costs, reward fulfillment, et cetera.

I don't judge games based on cost efficiency baselines so that is irrelevant to me. Low budgets merits strong art direction but they also didn't have that either.

If we're talking art direction, the game seems to have some pretty good designs. Hat Kid herself looks pretty striking and the world around her has plenty of charm.