Bad Little Things

A little thing. A very crooked world.

You're small, soft, and armed with a needle. The things waiting ahead are none of those.

Bad Little Things is a third-person 3D action-platformer about a knitted wanderer finding a way through an impossible world. Leaning rooftops, twisting stairs, deep gorges, and strange stitched creatures stand between you and the next door.

Leap the gaps. Catch a ring with your thread. Meet a golden flash with a well-timed parry, turn a projectile back on its owner, and stitch another hit into your combo.

A whole first world. Free.

This is a free, in-development demo, not the complete game. It includes:

• The Sewing Box: a playable introduction to jumping, thread traversal, combat, parrying, and dodging.
• Five first-world levels: The Crooked Quarter, The Long Gorge, Gallery of Bent Windows, The Bent District, and The Keep.
• Ravel, the city of made things: explore its streets, visit the shops, ride the overhead tram, and try the races.
• Needle-and-thread action: melee combat, reflected projectiles, aerial movement, grapple rings, and combo chasing.
• A cart ride into The Keep: drive the winding causeway, drift through turns, and commit to the jumps.
• Checkpoints and local saves: come back to your adventure, replay cleared levels, and spend collected spools on upgrades.

Chapter II and later story content are not playable in this demo.

Soft edges. Sharp needle.

The little wanderer belongs to a world of yarn, stitches, and stuffing. The world around it looks as if someone built a city, then changed their mind about which way was up.

Expect expressionist architecture, warm lanterns, theatrical shadows, and creatures that look sewn together for entirely the wrong reasons.

Play On Windows

Windows is the primary version. Download the ZIP, extract the entire folder, and run BadLittleThingsDemo.exe. No installer or account is required to play.

Keyboard and mouse controls are listed below. Gamepad bindings and optional parry assistance are also available. This is a work in progress: rough edges, bugs, and performance problems are possible.

Experimental Android Build

Optional, unsupported, and not optimized for phones. Windows is strongly recommended.

The Android APK is an experimental extra, not a promise of a supported mobile release. Performance, heat, battery use, touch controls, and device compatibility may be poor, especially in Ravel. It has not been verified across Android devices. You may encounter crashes or be unable to run it at all.

Requires a compatible 64-bit Android device and manual APK installation. There is no iOS build. If it struggles, try the Battery graphics preset, or use the Windows version instead.

Signing note: the optional sideload candidate uses a debug certificate, not a private production release key. Future differently signed APKs may require reinstalling and may lose local saves.

Controls

• Move / look: WASD or arrow keys / mouse
• Jump / double jump: Space
• Attack: Left mouse
• Parry / aim with crossbow: Right mouse or F
• Dodge: Shift
• Thread / interact / enter or leave cart: E
• Lock on: Tab or middle mouse
• Weapon wheel: Q
• Mend: R
• Ravel map: M
• Controls hint: H
• Quicksave on foot: F5
• Pause / options: Escape
• Drive / steer: W/S / A/D
• Cart handbrake / drift: Space
• Race item: Shift

The Thread Continues On Steam

The full game is planned for Steam.

This itch.io download is the free demo: the tutorial, first world, and Ravel. The complete adventure will be a separate release. There is no public Steam store page or announced release date yet. Follow this project for development updates and the Steam page announcement.

No save-transfer compatibility with the future full release is promised.

Tell Us Where The Thread Snags

Found a broken jump, a stuck gate, or a crash? Leave a comment with your build version, platform, CPU/GPU or phone model, graphics preset, the level, and the steps that caused it. A screenshot or short clip helps enormously.

What felt good? What didn't? We'd love to hear that too.

Download the free demo. Take the first stitch.

Content Note

Stylized fantasy combat against stitched creatures; toy-like dismemberment and stuffing; heights and falls; eerie imagery; flashing combat effects and camera shake. Ravel's residents and vehicles can also be attacked. No age rating has been assigned.