Axiom Verge

Axiom Verge

Released May 2015

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

90% positive · 6,560 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Steam $19.99
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Evaluation

Axiom Verge launched on May 14, 2015 as a self-contained action-adventure game by solo developer Thomas Happ. The only DLC ever released is the original soundtrack, which shipped the day before launch. Over the years, the developer has continued to ship occasional maintenance patches to keep the game running well on modern hardware and operating systems — most recently on August 11, 2025. The one substantive post-launch content addition was the integration of a Randomizer mode into the main game on August 18, 2021. There have been no announcements of future expansions, new content, or additional DLC. The game's store description presents it as a complete, self-contained experience. Given the absence of any announced future content and the pattern of purely maintenance-level updates following the Randomizer integration, the game is a finished product. The most recent developer communication (August 11, 2025) was a bug fix, consistent with long-term maintenance of a released game rather than ongoing content development.
Evidence
Version 1.48 integrated a Randomizer mode into the main game — the only major content addition post-launch.
news post · Aug 18, 2021 source content shipped
high
The only DLC ever listed is the original soundtrack, released at launch. No additional DLC has been announced or listed.
dlc listing · May 13, 2015 source content shipped
medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Thomas Happ Games LLC
Achievements
29
Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

This is the action-adventure you’ve been waiting decades for. After a lab accident, a scientist awakens in a mysterious, alien world. Is this a distant planet? The far future? Or a complex virtual-reality computer simulation?

Plumb the recesses of a large, labyrinthine world in order to learn its secrets and uncover your role within it.

Discover tons of weapons, items, and abilities, each with their own unique behaviors and usage. You’ll need your wits to find them all.

Combat bizarre biomechanoid constructs, the deadly fallout of an ancient war, and the demons of your own psyche.

And finally, break the game itself by using glitches to corrupt foes and solve puzzles in the environment.

Life. Afterlife. Real. Virtual. Dream. Nightmare. It's a thin line.

It's Axiom Verge.
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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