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Axel's Big Little Choices

Warm stories about big feelings, everyday challenges and helpful choices, for ages 5 to 7 and their grown-ups. Little choices. Big feelings. One step at a time.

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Axel Run

About 60 MB the first time, then it works offline.

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The series

Season 1 has twenty three-minute stories. Watch the trailer here, and new episodes on the YouTube channel as they come out.

Axel and Dad building a tower of blocks: the Season 1 trailer

See the channel on YouTube

Season 1 episodes

  1. The Tower Topple
  2. The Star Block
  3. My Turn on the Swing
  4. The Paint Splash
  5. Rainy Picnic
  6. Last in the Race
  7. Can I Play Too?
  8. Too Much Noise
  9. Jett's Birthday
  10. First Morning, New Room
  11. I Tore Your Picture
  12. A Different Way Today
  13. Cole Can Do It
  14. Five More Minutes
  15. My Special Toy
  16. Waiting at the Doctor
  17. Dentist, Tell Me First
  18. The Very Loud Party
  19. A Turn with Mum
  20. The Family Fair

Season 2: coming soon.

Axel Run, the game

Help Axel run through the garden, collect golden acorns and build a den of his own. Play it free in your browser, on a phone, tablet or computer.

For grown-ups: it’s free, with no adverts, no purchases and nothing to sign up for. Progress is saved on your device only. To play offline: open the game on its own page, then Share → “Add to Home Screen” on an iPad or iPhone (Safari then keeps your child’s progress), or the browser menu → “Add to Home screen” on Android.

Play Axel Run

  • Three-lane garden runSwipe or use the arrow keys to change lane, jump and duck through a 90-second lap.
  • Golden acornsCollect them to fill the lap goal and earn sticker packs.
  • Gentle bumpsBump a toy block and Axel says "Oops! Keep going!" and carries on.
  • Choose your pathSignposts split the road: the calm gold meadow or the wild lilac woods. Neither is wrong.
  • Bear's Acorn RushA rainbow bubble turns Axel into Bear for a few seconds of charging fun.
  • Build and paint a denStack boxes into shapes, paint them and add your stickers.

For grown-ups

The series is made for children aged 5 to 7 and the grown-ups who watch with them. Each story looks at a big feeling or an everyday challenge, and a helpful choice.

How it's made. The episodes and game art are made with the help of AI tools, then checked by hand before anything is shared. Videos on YouTube are marked as made for kids.

Your child's data. This website does not use tracking or advertising cookies, and it does not ask children for any information. The trailer plays from this website’s own copy, so nothing loads from YouTube; the channel link opens YouTube itself.

The game. Axel Run is free, with no adverts, purchases, accounts or chat, and it sends nothing to us. Full details are on our Legal page.

Behind the scenes

How the series and the game are made, for grown-ups.

  • The first Axel post is on its way.

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