BattleBlock Theater

In BattleBlock Theater, players control a prisoner as they are forced to play through games devised by Hatty Hattington.

Controls are simple, with the game largely consisting of running, jumping and punching. Levels are made up of various types of blocks, such as collapsing blocks, sticky walls, bouncy volcanic rocks and deadly spikes, and also feature hazards such as water and deadly creatures.

Almost all of the game's cut-scenes are done in a stick puppet style. S.

Friendship, as well as Hatty Hattington, who is known as "best friend to one and all". S.

Friendship becomes shipwrecked on a mysterious, seemingly abandoned island, and the crew itself vanishes. Upon waking up from the wreck, the player character seeks shelter from the storm in a dilapidated theater.

Soon afterwards, the player discovers technologically advanced, highly-evolved cats restraining a captive Hatty as he is being fitted with an ominously glowing top hat. The hat appears to change him, and he alerts the cats to the player's presence, attacking them and rendering them unconscious.

S. Friendship is being held prisoner by the cats, with Hatty as their apparent new leader.

The player is then released from their cell and forced into deadly games by the feline wardens. The cats, who force their prisoners into deadly theater performances, watch with amusement as the player fights for their survival.

As the player completes challenges, they find gems which are spend on unlocking fellow crew members to play as in these theater performances. Appearing to be possessed by the hat's unknown powers, Hatty begins working for the cats and against the player.

As the player progresses, the narrator reveals more about the theater. Hundreds of years before the player shipwrecked on the island, Purrham Furbottom, a theatrical aficionado, sought to build the world's greatest theater.

The opening night saw the most jaw-dropping feats and thrills the likes of which were never seen before, making the theater an overnight success. " Since then, his top hat has been passed down to various others, who were each revered by the cats as their leader, and who each met with grim fates of their own.