Comparison

AAAAXY vs Solar Stride

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Solar Stride

Features
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Ten worlds. One runner. No two songs ever the same. Solar Stride is an endless runner across the solar system — the Moon, Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Pluto, and out to the far moons: Europa, Io, Titan, Triton. Every world has its own gravity, its own terrain, its own light, and its own music. EVERY WORLD RUNS DIFFERENT Lunar gravity floats you over craters; Venus drags you down through crystal highlands; Titan's dunes roll on forever under orange haze. Jump the chasms, smash through the rocks (your suit can take four — barely), and watch the sun cross the sky: every planet runs a full day-night cycle while you explore, and the world changes with the light. BANK IT OR LOSE IT Progress isn't given — it's carried. Run your distance through the giant glowing checkpoint hoops to bank it. Fall in a chasm first, and everything since your last hoop is gone. Distance you bank builds your lifetime record, and your lifetime record unlocks new bodies, new suit colors — and at 100 km, the Surge Belt: infinite jetpack, forever. SOMETHING IS FOLLOWING YOU A visitor makes its rounds. When the beam comes down, the music turns with it — jump, burn fuel, or turn and fire. The ray gun never runs out. MUSIC PERFORMED LIVE, IN THE MOMENT Nothing here is a recording. Every world has its own songbook — motorik on Mars, bossa nova on Venus, dub on Pluto — played live by a generative music engine with real music theory under the hood: modal harmony, walking bass, improvised solos with actual phrasing. Every performance is one-of-one. You'll never hear it again. MADE THE SULZIE BROS WAY Free. No ads. No accounts. No tracking. No in-app purchases. Just you, ten worlds, and the distance. How far can you carry it?

Screenshots

AAAAXY4 screens
Solar Stride4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: AAAAXY at 13.0 against Solar Stride's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
AAAAXY versus Solar Stride: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAAAAXYSolar Stride
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRudolf PolzerAllen Sulzen

In-app purchases

None

AAAAXY

No in-app purchases

None

Solar Stride

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AAAAXY free?
AAAAXY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solar Stride free?
Solar Stride is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AAAAXY or Solar Stride have ads?
Neither AAAAXY nor Solar Stride shows ads.

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