Andor’s Trail

From the README: “Andor’s Trail is a single-player quest-driven roguelike fantasy dungeon crawler RPG with a powerful story. Uncover the truths about your home village and the disappearance of your brother. Battle fierce monsters, gain experience and levels. Solve quests, find hidden treasures and improve your equipment.” You walk a top-down map one step at a time, talk to people, trade in shops, and fight monsters in turn-based battles, spending action points on attacks and items. Oskar Wiksten started it; Kevin Pochat now leads a team of volunteers who continue it.

What 0.8.18 brought

The release notes, from September 2026, list one quest that couldn’t be finished before (“Lost treasures”) and eight new ones, among them “Undertell: What was not written” and “A map of the Great Lake Laeroth”, along with numbers shown with thousands separators and Android TV support. The team’s announcement: “Finally, you’ll be able to get your hands on some heartstone and forge heartsteel. Fight your way through the liches of Undertell, uncover the history of this mysterious place, and claim its valuable resources.”

The game has no music or sound effects.

What goes online

Nothing. The app has no internet permission. Links on the About screen to the forum, Discord and wiki open in your browser when you tap them. The world map is drawn from a file the game creates on the phone.

On Android 10 and later your saves are kept in the app’s own folder, which Android deletes when you uninstall; export them first (see the questions above). On Android 6 to 10 the game asks for the storage permission, which it uses for saves.

About this file

• This is the developers’ own build of Andor’s Trail 0.8.18, from their GitHub release of 13 September 2026, the same file as on andorstrail.com. It is signed with the original developer’s key (the certificate spells it “Oskar WIksten”).
• F-Droid offers its own build of the same version, signed with F-Droid’s key, which is larger (about 105 megabytes) because it also carries the translation source files. The two can’t replace each other. On Google Play the game is free, with the store text: “There is no payment to install, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no DLCs.”
• This version raised the minimum to Android 5.0, from 4.4; the release notes don’t mention it. The 39.3 MB file has no native code, so it runs on any processor. It declares 2 permissions, for storage. Our scan found no trackers.
• An open report says that on one phone with Android 16, quickly pressing the back key of the three-button navigation registers twice; the team couldn’t reproduce it. Another says the settings are reset when you reinstall, although the saves are kept.
• The screenshots are from the game’s Google Play images, from 2020 or earlier.

Licences

The README says the code is released under the GNU GPL v2; the app’s own licence screen says “version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version”. The game’s content is different. The README: “Andor’s Trail gameplay content is copyright by their respective authors and has only been licensed for use in Andor’s Trail.” F-Droid flags this as non-free assets.

The graphics come from many artists, as the project’s graphics credits explain: “Most of the graphical resources are licensed under some kind of CC sharealike license … Some are CC or GPL in their original form, but some are not, and Andor’s Trail has gotten explicit written approval from the author(s) to use them to this project.” Among those not under a free licence:

• The main map tileset credits telles0808’s “RPG Maker RTP Tileset”, whose page says it “is not authorized in Commercial Games” and that it includes art “largely found on the RPG Maker Communities”.
• Item and status icons were added in 2016 with the commit message “New spritesheets by JapoZero and Enterbrain”, “originally 24x24”. Enterbrain is the publisher of RPG Maker. Neither name appears in the game’s credits, and we couldn’t confirm which icons, if any, come from RPG Maker.
• Some tiles come from REFMAP, a Japanese material site whose terms allow use in games with credit, which the game gives, and ask that the material itself not be redistributed on its own.

Recent releases on the project’s GitHub. We host and check only the newest one. Full changelog.