The Perfect Shape

The Perfect Shape is a platformer with puzzle elements and features borrowed from the metroidvania genre. You control a geometric shape with a unique ability and use it to complete each level. Your choices affect your ability, the safety of the ground and the special power-up available to you; deciding whether to change or keep your shape can save time or effort. Each level has multiple solutions and can become easier or harder depending on your choices.

Paths and endings

The game has hidden paths leading to other zones. You cannot explore every path in one run: choosing one means giving up the others, though each path begins in the same place. Enemies cannot kill you, but miscalculating can leave you out of time, resetting the current level and all progress within it.

Shapes and resources

Each shape has its own evolution, and you decide which development suits your play style. Consumables can help with challenges, but they are also required for evolution, so you must choose whether to use or exchange them.

Power-ups

There are three types of power-ups: temporal effects last until you change shape, timed effects last for a period, and permanent effects last until the end of the level. Except for the special power-up, powers can stack up to five times. Different types can be stacked together, but picking up a new type overwrites the previous one.

Level challenges

Most levels have multiple individually designed challenges. You get only one chance to complete each level's challenge, and your shape is locked once you enter.