SuperTux

SuperTux is, in its README’s words, “a jump’n’run game with strong inspiration from the Super Mario Bros. games for the various Nintendo platforms. Run and jump through multiple worlds, fighting off enemies by jumping on them, bumping them from below or tossing objects at them, grabbing power-ups and other stuff on the way.” The story: Tux’s friend Penny has been captured by Nolok, and Tux sets out to rescue her.

The game comes complete: the story mode’s two worlds, Icy Island and Rooted Forest; Bonus Island I, which opens once you have collected 40 Tux Dolls; and Revenge in Redmond, a level pack “celebrating the good ol’ days of SuperTux for its 20th anniversary”. Nothing has to be downloaded or supplied.

What 0.7.0 brought

Version 0.7.0, from 15 March 2026, is the first stable release since 0.6.3 in December 2021, and the first since the team revived its Android build. From its release notes:

• New sprites and moves for Tux: sliding down slopes, a strong buttjump, rolling as a rock, and crawling.
• New graphics for most backgrounds, tiles, objects and enemies, and new music.
• The story mode, Revenge in Redmond and Bonus Island I redesigned, with new characters and enemies and reworked bosses.
• Local multiplayer, keys, an item pocket for a spare power-up, and bonus islands unlocked with Tux Dolls.

If you played the 0.7.0 betas, the notes warn that their story-mode saves are kept as .old files and don’t carry over automatically; the team suggests starting fresh.

On a phone

• Touch controls appear automatically on a touchscreen: a direction pad, jump and action buttons, pause, and the item pocket. The options let you hide them, change their size and turn off the vibration that goes with them.
• Game controllers and keyboards work too, and the game runs in landscape only.
• Known problems in the bug tracker: changing the language from the options can freeze the app for a while; with the fire flower, letting go of a carried ice block or bomb with the touch Action button shoots a fireball that destroys it; and setting up a joystick manually crashes on Android 15.

What goes online

Nothing until you agree (see the questions above). Once the internet is allowed:

• Add-ons: the Add-ons menu loads a catalogue of extra worlds and level packs from the team’s addons repository on GitHub. The list is fetched live and can change without an app update. In October 2026 it had 12 entries, among them a fan port of level layouts from a Scratch remake of Super Mario Bros.
• Release check: only if you also said Yes to the second question, a small version file on GitHub is checked at startup, and you are notified of a new release.
• No certificate checks: the code switches off verification of the servers’ HTTPS certificates for these downloads, so they aren’t protected against tampering on the way. The add-ons’ checksums come from the same catalogue, so they don’t help.
• The Donate entry in the main menu opens the team’s donation page in the browser after asking. There are no ads, purchases or trackers, and nothing is sent automatically when the game crashes.

About this file

• This is the team’s own build of SuperTux 0.7.0 for 64-bit ARM, from its GitHub release, identical to the file there. The team also publishes builds for 32-bit ARM and x86. It is signed with the team’s key; the same certificate (SHA-256 bc1ac64e…1b94) signs all four 0.7.0 builds and both betas. The team doesn’t publish a fingerprint.
• At 296.0 MB it is large because everything is inside: graphics, music, sounds, levels and translations. It declares 2 permissions: internet and vibration. Our scan found no trackers.
• It needs Android 9 or later, as explained in the questions above.
• SuperTux isn’t on F-Droid yet. A maintainer in June 2026: “It should be ready in the next release, however, no guarantees.”
• The whole game is translated into Brazilian Portuguese.
• The screenshots are the team’s own desktop screenshots of 0.7.0; on Android, the touch controls are drawn on top.
• Some content is parody: Revenge in Redmond and an enemy named “BSOD”, an angry monitor with a blue screen, poke fun at Microsoft, and one bonus level is called “Mario’s Supposed to Deal With This…”.

Licences

SuperTux’s code is licensed under the GPL-3.0 or later. For the game’s data, the README says: “Most of the data subdirectory is also licensed under CC-by-SA”. Every level and world map carries its own licence, almost all CC-BY-SA 4.0. The exceptions, all inside this APK, from the project’s own credits file and history:

• Non-commercial: kill.wav, the sound that plays every time Tux dies, and the conveyor belt graphics, used in the Bonus Island level “Area 42”, are listed as “submitted by RodirodDude CC BY-NC 4.0”.
• No stated licence: eight music tracks (voc_night_alt, counter_current, deeply_rooted, late_sunset, calm_ocean, christmas_theme, classic and theme_old). The credits file says all music is by wansti under GPL and CC-BY-SA “unless stated otherwise”, but the project’s history shows several of these are by other people. The composer of calm_ocean wrote that “Good amount of inspiration with this came from ‘Aquatic Ambience’ from Donkey Kong Country’s OST.”
• The default font, SuperTux-Medium.ttf, used for English and Portuguese text, has no licence file or licence statement.
• Sound effects: 27 files aren’t listed in the credits at all, and many others name an author but no licence.
• The four “voc” music tracks are credited to wansti in this version; after the release, the team corrected that to semajD, under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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