Frequently Asked Questions

Vex is a series of fast-paced online platformer games built around precise movement, challenging obstacle courses, and quick reactions. Run, jump, climb, slide, and dodge your way through traps as you learn each level and work toward the perfect run.

Depends on how you're counting. If you mean the mainline numbered series of these platformer games, we're at nine: Vex 1 through Vex 9. Add in the spin-offs — Vex Challenges, Vex Hyper Dash, Vex Try to Fly, Vex 3 Xmas, and the three-part Vex X3M motorbike series — and the whole family adds up to around 16 titles. That number keeps climbing, so don't hold us to it a year from now.

Not every one of those lives on vex.game right now, but this is the full picture of what "Vex" actually covers.

The stickman himself was born from Amazing Adam, an independent developer who put out Vex 1 and Vex 2 back in 2013. Vex 3 is where things shifted: it moved from Flash to HTML5 and joined Azerion's portfolio. From Vex 4 onward, Azerion's in-house casual games studio has handled development, while the original DNA — the tight controls, the brutal traps, the "one more try" hook — has stayed intact the whole way through.

So yes, it's an Azerion game today, built on top of a series Amazing Adam started.

Yes, but only on Google Play (at least for now).

Android Users: You can download individual titles like Vex 9 on Google Play, published by Azerion.

iOS Users (iPhone & iPad): There are currently no official Vex apps available on the Apple App Store.

If you want to skip the downloads entirely, or if you're on iOS, every Vex game runs straight in your mobile browser at vex.game with no installation required.

Because Vex 1 and Vex 2 were built in Flash, and Flash doesn't work anymore in modern browsers. Adobe pulled the plug on Flash Player at the end of 2020, and browsers stopped supporting it shortly after.

Vex 3 got rescued with a full HTML5 rebuild, which is why it's still around. Vex 1 and Vex 2 never got that treatment, so they're not part of the current vex.game lineup.

A platformer is a game built around getting a character from point A to point B by jumping, running, and dodging obstacles along the way — platforms, gaps, spikes, moving hazards, and so on. Timing and reflexes matter more than strategy or story. Vex sits firmly in that tradition, just stripped down to a stickman, a stopwatch mentality, and levels designed to kill you in creative ways until you learn them.

No. The original Flash builds of Vex 1, Vex 2, and early Vex 3 aren't playable in a standard browser anymore, since Flash itself was retired. What you'll find today on vex.game are HTML5 versions, rebuilt to run without any plugin.

Vex 3 onward was either built in HTML5 from the start or converted early on, so "Vex Flash game" now really just means "classic Vex," even though the tech under the hood has moved on.

Yes. Every game in the series is free, with no subscription and no paywall to unlock levels. Some titles sell optional skins for your stickman using in-game coins you earn by playing, but that's purely for style points — it has zero effect on how the game plays.

Vex 3 is the usual entry point, and for good reason: it's the one most people mean when they say "Vex," and it sets the template the rest of the series still follows: run, jump, slide, climb, swim, don't die. If you want the newest mechanics — jetpacks, expanded skin shops, Infinite mode — start with Vex 9 instead. Either way you'll pick up the core moves fast, since the series was never designed to need a tutorial you actually sit through.

No to both. Vex Game runs directly in your browser on desktop, tablet, or phone. Open the page, hit play, done. No account, no email sign-up, no installer.

Yes, but only within a session and on the same device. It won't follow you across devices or browsers, since there's no account tied to it. If you clear your browser data, you will likely be starting the Vex games from scratch.