Soft(A)ware

Soft(A)ware is a surreal puzzle-platformer set inside a vast, hostile system. The player awakens in a virtual world that works as a prison, built to limit and control. By disrupting the rules of this world, the player can alter gravity, rewind time and evade the constructs that pursue them. Each challenge combines a puzzle with a test of how far the player will push against the system.

The core mechanics are gravity-shifting traversal, which allows movement along walls, ceilings and other unusual paths, and time-rewind, which lets players undo mistakes and experiment with temporal puzzles. Levels use a modular design that mixes hand-crafted challenges with procedural variety. Secrets and hidden pathways reward exploration away from the obvious route, and the game presents a surreal digital setting of shifting constructs.

Three modes are available once unlocked. Story introduces abilities and obstacles gradually while teaching the mechanics. Story Plus unlocks after the story has been completed once, and lets players replay it with all abilities available, at higher difficulty levels and with certain events already in effect. A new ending may also be discoverable. Endless unlocks after the tutorials are completed and generates levels until the player fails. Score depends on the number of levels completed and the speed of completion, with leaderboards. Endless has no saving, no checkpoints and no reset to a checkpoint.