Focus Entertainment has announced the release of Bradley the Badger for December 2025, an action adventure where a badger uses tools to alter the environment and solve puzzles. The game, first confirmed on PC, could expand to other platforms. Its proposal is inspired by the video game creation process, offering a meta perspective on interactive design.
An engine that prioritizes object and environment manipulation 🛠️
The technical development of Bradley the Badger focuses on a real-time environmental modification system. Players can move, stack, or modify scene elements to solve puzzles, similar to level editing tools. The engine allows each change to affect the world's physics and logic, offering multiple solutions for the same problem. Focus Entertainment has optimized performance so that transformations are fluid, even with complex objects. It's not a total sandbox, but a guided experience where user creativity is part of the challenge.
The badger that will make you feel like a novice designer 😅
Although Bradley is a badger with architectural aspirations, don't expect his tools to be intuitive. The game will make you sweat to stack a simple cube, while the protagonist emits sounds of frustration reminiscent of your first day in a map editor. If you've ever wanted to punish a character for your own design mistakes, here's your chance. At least, if you fail, you can always blame the badger.