Soft(A)ware

Soft(A)ware is a surreal puzzle-platformer set in a vast, hostile virtual system that functions as a prison. You disrupt its rules by shifting gravity, rewinding time and outwitting the constructs that hunt you. As you progress, you learn new abilities and encounter new obstacles while uncovering what—and who—is trapped in the system.

Traversal and puzzles

Gravity-shifting traversal lets you walk on walls, ceilings and otherwise impossible paths. You can rewind time to undo mistakes, experiment and solve temporal puzzles. The levels combine hand-crafted challenges with procedural variety, and secrets and hidden pathways reward exploration. The world is filled with shifting constructs and an atmosphere of quiet oppression.

Game modes

The game has three modes, which unlock as follows:

• Story: Discover the story and learn the mechanics, including how to break them. Abilities and obstacles are introduced gradually.
• Story Plus: Unlocked after completing the story once. Replay it with all abilities, higher difficulty levels and certain events already in effect; this mode may also reveal a new ending.
• Endless: Unlocked after completing the tutorials. Play procedurally generated levels until you fail and compete on the leaderboards. Your score increases with the number of levels completed and how quickly you finish them. There are no saves or checkpoints, and no way to reset to one.