Fit check
Is Bad Pad worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Metroidvania fans who want platforming mixed with puzzles and boss fights
- Players interested in stories delivered through songs and animation
- Retro platformer players seeking varied stages, mini-games, and multiple difficulty settings
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a short, tightly focused platformer rather than a game with more than 12 hours of gameplay and 160 scenes
- Players who prefer one consistent stage format instead of platforming mixed with vehicles, puzzles, bosses, and mini-games
- Players looking for a realistic visual style rather than pixel art and a retro presentation
- Players who do not want a metal-oriented soundtrack and musical storytelling
Our take on Bad Pad
Rather than keeping music in the background, Bad Pad makes songs part of its storytelling through animated narrative scenes. Its cast of living gamepad buttons also replaces the usual heroic adventurer with a controller-based premise.
What is Bad Pad?
Bad Pad is a retro-style metroidvania platformer about gamepad buttons that come to life.
Its humorous story is told through songs and animations, accompanied by a guitar-driven rock and metal soundtrack. The game combines precision platforming, boss fights, environmental puzzles, mini-games, and stages involving carts, submarines, and spaceships. Exploration covers 160 scenes and more than 12 hours of gameplay. Physics and changing gravity affect the game mechanics, while the inventory uses an item-based system. The game includes 10 boss levels, three difficulty settings, pixel-art graphics, gamepad support, and Steam achievements. A demo lets players continue with saved progress when moving to the full game.
How Bad Pad plays
- 01Song-Led Story
- Humorous characters and events are presented through musical numbers and animated sequences.
- 02Varied Level Types
- The game includes cart rides, submarine sections, spaceship stages, and other gameplay formats.
- 03Large Exploration Map
- Metroidvania-style exploration covers 160 scenes and more than 12 hours of gameplay.
- 04Physics-Based Mechanics
- Physics systems and changing gravity affect platforming and environmental puzzles.
- 05Multiple Difficulties
- Three difficulty settings are available for the game.
- 06Progress-Carrying Demo
- Saved progress from the demo can continue in the full game.
Bad Pad compared to similar games
Sundered: Eldritch Edition is also a metroidvania, while Bad Pad combines exploration with song-based storytelling, vehicle-focused sections, environmental puzzles, and mini-games. The other listed alternatives describe climbing, shooting, runner, or multiplayer shooting formats rather than metroidvania platforming.
Bad Pad: platforms & release
Is Bad Pad worth it?
It is worth it if: metroidvania fans who want platforming mixed with puzzles and boss fights. Skip it if: players seeking a short, tightly focused platformer rather than a game with more than 12 hours of gameplay and 160 scenes.
Where can I download Bad Pad?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Bad Pad's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Bad Pad on?
Windows and Linux.
