here vs AAAAXY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
here
This minimal puzzle game challenges your thinking with unique levels that test logic, memory, and reflexes. With 50 puzzles and hints available, it offers an engaging experience for all ages. Can you solve them all?
- Unique puzzle challenges
- Logic and memory tests
- Physics and wordplay puzzles
- Reflex and speed challenges
- Hints for difficult levels
- Smooth animations
- Eerie and puzzling music
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A simple-looking minimal puzzle game that requires your brain to think something different and outside the box every time. Each level looks simple and clean, but the puzzles in them are unique and have a set of varying difficulties. The puzzles involve different challenges like logic, memory, physics, word plays, brainy, reflexes, speed, and much more. The difficulty increases with the level number and each level come with 3 hints. Got stuck? Take a hint, find your way out, and make here. The game is packed with smooth animations and 50 unique puzzles. It's easy to understand and simple to play, but not so easy to solve. Your puzzle-solving skills will be tested and we'll even set a mood by playing eerie and puzzling music for you. For all kinds of age groups who love to connect the dots and solve puzzles! It's here, but can you find it?
AAAAXY
Explore a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer set in mind-bending impossible spaces. Set your own goals, discover secrets, and enjoy a unique, disorienting world. Designed for players who enjoy exploration and a touch of playful trolling.
- Nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer
- Impossible spaces gameplay
- Exploration and secrets
- Player-set goals
- Unique world design
- Playful trolling elements
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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! So jump and run around, and enjoy losing your sense of orientation in this World of Wicked Weirdness. Find out what Van Vlijmen will make you do. Pick a path, get inside a Klein Bottle, recognize some memes, and by all means: don't look up. And beware of a minor amount of trolling. To reach the end, a new player will take about 4 to 6 hours, a full playthrough can be finished in about 1 hour and the end can be reached in about 15 minutes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AAAAXY at none against here's 1. AAAAXY also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). here's advantage is ratings volume (6K vs 5) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. here sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AAAAXY asks for nothing beyond the download.
AAAAXY holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: here has 6K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of here's written reviews are positive against 100% of AAAAXY's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | here | AAAAXY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sparsh Tyagi | Rudolf Polzer |
Customer experience
here
AAAAXY
Bugs and requests
here
Reported bugs
2 issues- Softlock issue on level 26
- Unresponsive controls on some levels
Requested features
2 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved responsiveness on certain levels
AAAAXY
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
here
- Remove Ads - Support Developer$1.99
AAAAXY
No in-app purchases









