Max Axe – Tips and Tricks Guide: Hints, Cheats and Strategies

Max Axe is an innovative take on the endless runner genre for the iOS and Android platforms. Your oddball Vikingesque character, presumably named Max, walks slowly down a pathway filled with monsters and insane quantities of treasure, and by throwing and directing his axe, you can defeat monsters, collect all of the treasure, and chain huge combos together. Read on for some tips and tricks for Max Axe!

It’s fairly easy to have an axe mishap and accidentally throw the axe from the back when you’re trying to aim at the front, and vice versa. Start your swipe in front of Max, rather than right on Max, and you won’t make the axe loop around by accident.

There are tons of ways to get free gold in this game, aside from the massive amounts of gold that you earn in the stages themselves. Go to the “Free Stuff” screen and you can earn gold bonuses for everything from connecting the game to Facebook, liking it, following on Twitter, to even watching free advertisement videos.

Don’t leave gold on the table by missing out on some of your biggest opportunities to earn it while playing. Break rocks, because oftentimes they contain white gems, which are worth 200 gold, or red gems, worth 100 gold apiece. Big coins are worth 25 gold, small coins are worth 10 gold and pots of gold are worth 50, while green gems are worth 75. String together big combos to make more treasure appear. String coins together for big coins, string big coins together for pots of gold, and string pots of gold together for gems.

Need to skip over a difficult mission? It costs you gold, but if you have the patience, simply watch ad videos until you earn enough gold (or play until you earn enough gold) and then pay some gold to skip the mission that’s giving you trouble.

Swipe quickly, but don’t swipe so quickly that the game neglects to read the entire swipe, or else your axe could disappear after a very short period of time, causing your combos to be broken or enemies not to be killed. This is best to learn early on in the game so that later on, when you have better axes and armor (and can thus afford to make more mistakes), you end up skilled enough to go on VERY long runs.