Widget Satchel

Widget Satchel is an adventure about Sprocket, a ferret escaping a playpen on a remote space station and making for the shuttlebay with as much stuff as possible. You sneak past human caretakers, solve puzzles and platform through the station, stealing widgets and socks to stash in your satchel. Sprocket cannot be hurt, there is no game over, and nothing blocks the way to the shuttlebay, so you can choose how challenging to make the journey.

Explore the station

The station has replayable areas, secret paths and hidden collectibles. You can race through them, explore for hard-to-reach places or make a mess by knocking over junk and hitting bots with your wrench. The more mischief you cause, the more mischief points you earn. Trapdoors, lifts, hydraulic pillars and other machinery can also be manipulated, and human characters can be mildly inconvenienced.

Collect and build

Widgets add weight to Sprocket’s satchel, making it harder to reach platforms and avoid maintenance bots. Levels are easier if you collect none, and become more challenging as the satchel fills. Stash enough widgets to fabricate doohickeys that open new paths and previously inaccessible areas. There are five doohickeys, which you can build in any order; The Wrench helps you deal with bots, while Jef's Boots help you reach high places.

Socks have their own inventory system, and you can find and try on all 30 pairs. The game also has piles of junk and dozens of hidden collectibles.

Replay and discover

After reaching the shuttlebay, you can escape the playpen again to pursue different challenges: collect more widgets, earn a higher mischief score or finish faster. The game has more than 20 Steam Achievements, called Feats, and further play reveals more about the station, its human crew and the Expedition they are part of. Its soundtrack responds dynamically to your progress.