What Is Bradley the Badger?
Bradley the Badger is a new 3D platformer introduced at The Game Awards 2025, starring a cartoon stunt-badger who has to survive dangerous, movie-like action sequences while cameras roll around him.
The game adopts a colorful, animated style and focuses on running, jumping, and dodging through elaborate set pieces that play out like chaotic film shoots, with Bradley repeatedly thrown into harm’s way for the sake of spectacle.
Reveal and Gameplay Details
Revealed on the main stage of The Game Awards, Bradley the Badger was showcased as a character-driven adventure with an emphasis on expressive animation, physical comedy, and tightly designed platforming challenges.
Players guide Bradley through levels that resemble film sets packed with props, traps, and scripted mayhem, chaining together jumps and dodges while the world collapses, explodes, or reshapes around them to create a sense of a live stunt going wrong in real time.
Developers and Future Impact
The project comes from Day 4 Night Studios, led by Davide Soliani, known for directing the Mario + Rabbids games, bringing experience with comedic timing, character animation, and family-friendly action design to a new original mascot.
By pairing a strong visual identity with a film-production theme, Bradley the Badger aims to carve out a niche in the modern platformer landscape and could, if well received, establish Bradley as a new recurring character in the genre.