AAAAXY

AAAAXY is a puzzle platformer by Rudolf “divVerent” Polzer. Its README: “AAAAXY is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces. Although your general goal is reaching the surprising end of the game, you are encouraged to set your own goals while playing. Exploration will be rewarded, and secrets await you!” It also warns: “And beware of a minor amount of trolling.”

How it plays

The whole game is one large map whose rooms connect in ways that can’t exist in real space: a corridor that leads back to where it started, and connections that are switched on and off while you play. The README’s mathematical notes call it “the universal cover of a massively twisted space”. You find abilities along the way, such as standing on platforms or carrying objects, which open up new parts of the map.

• No lives: touching spikes sends you back to the last checkpoint.
• Pick-a-Path: the map of checkpoints you have visited, from which you can jump back to any of them.
• Speedrunning: the game times your run and shows it in the end credits, with categories such as Any%, 100%, All Secrets and No Teleports.
• Graphics palettes imitating old computers and consoles, from monochrome CGA and EGA to the NES and the Game Boy, plus the PICO-8 and SWEETIE-16 palettes since 1.8.34, and a slider to tone down screen flashes. Four separate save slots.
• About a dozen languages, among them Portuguese, German, Japanese and Chinese.

What goes online

Nothing: the app asks for no permissions at all, and it doesn’t open any links. The privacy page: “there is no data collection, processing, sharing or transmission taking place in AAAAXY.”

The music and art are free to reuse

The game’s 13 music tracks come from OpenGameArt and are all CC0 (public domain). The sound effects were made by the developer with sound tools whose settings are in the repository. The player sprite is based on GrafxKid’s CC0 “Classic hero and baddies pack”, the main font is GNU Unifont, and the rest of the art and the level are the developer’s own under the Apache-2.0 licence. The licences ship inside the game and can be read under Credits.

About this file

• This is F-Droid’s build of version 1.8.34, from 16 October 2026, for 64-bit ARM phones, signed with F-Droid’s key. The developer’s APKs on GitHub and itch.io are signed with the developer’s key, and the Play version can’t carry F-Droid’s, so you can’t install one over the other.
• 1.8.34 adds the PICO-8 and SWEETIE-16 palettes, replays the ticking clock when you backtrack (#735), makes small changes to the ending and to one level, and updates the Go toolchain, which accounts for most of the larger file.
• The 48.2 MB file needs Android 6.0 or later. The app declares OpenGL ES 3.1, although the developer notes “Actually only GLES 2.0 is required, but stating a higher requirement to exclude low-end devices.” On Android 6 and 7 the launcher icon may not display properly (#554).
• The screenshots come from the game’s F-Droid listing and show the on-screen buttons.
• AAAAXY is licensed under the Apache-2.0. F-Droid’s source archive for this exact build is at https://f-droid.org/repo/io.github.divverent.aaaaxy_108300344_src.tar.gz.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017).

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