How to play
- Each stage opens on a Get ready card. Tap Start to release the ball.
- Tilt your phone to roll the ball. The further you tilt, the faster it goes.
- Guide it into a brass-ringed hole to clear the stage. Some stages have more than one ball — every one of them has to get home.
- Other holes lose the ball. Walls, grooves and arrows on the board show you the way.
Holding the phone
The game reads your phone's motion sensors, so it plays best held flat-ish in front of you, the way you'd hold a real tilt maze. You don't touch the screen while playing, and the screen stays awake while the game is open.
If the ball drifts when you think the phone is level, it probably isn't — the ball is honest about it. Find a comfortable neutral angle and play from there.
Lives
- You start with 5 lives and can hold up to 10.
- Losing the ball costs one life. Some early guidance stages are free to fail.
- Hearts on the board give one life each.
- Below 5, you get one free life every hour — even while the app is closed — until you're back at 5.
- When you run out, you can wait for the next free life or choose to watch a short video for 2 lives. After clearing a stage you can also watch one for 2 extra lives.
Ads
Ads keep Steelbound free. Videos that give lives are always your choice — you can keep playing without them. Past the first stages, a short ad may also appear between stages; choosing to watch a video for lives on the stage-complete screen replaces that ad rather than adding to it.
If you see “No ad available just now”, there's simply no ad to show at the moment. Check your connection and try again in a little while.
New stages
Stages are downloaded from the internet, so new ones can arrive without an app update. They're saved on your device, so you can keep playing offline once they've loaded.
My progress
Your stage and lives are saved on this device. They don't move to another device, and deleting the app resets them.
Sound
The rolling and knocking sounds follow your phone's silent switch — if you hear nothing, check it. The game doesn't stop music or podcasts that are already playing.
Contact
A question, a bug, or a stage that seems impossible? We'd love to hear from you: info@digishops.co.il
To help us help you quickly, please include your device model, iOS version, and which stage it happened on.