Steer the Marbles vs Collapse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steer the Marbles
Guide marbles and balls to their goals by tilting your device. Navigate through challenging levels with obstacles, mazes, and multiple holes while avoiding red balls. Collect gems and earn stars in this physics-based puzzle game.
- Tilt device to steer
- 100+ playable levels
- Avoid red balls
- Collect gems
- Physics game engine
- Maze and obstacle levels
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Tilt your mobile device to steer the marbles and balls towards the goals. This classic roll-the-balls game has twists and many levels. It's not as easy as it sounds because you must also avoid the red balls from entering the holes. Variety of levels include obstacles, maze level, multiple holes, and different ball sizes. Collect all the gems and earn star ratings. Have fun steering, balancing, and aiming the balls and watch them interact with physics using the accelerometer. A great game to relax and spend a few minutes. • Very easy to play, just tilt your device to steer the marbles/balls to the holes. • 100+ levels, all playable, no In App Purchase. • Relaxing and addictive game play. Straightforward interface. • Built using physics game engine. • Variety of challenges and things to discover, such as maze/labyrinth levels, pipe/tunnel, and gems.
Collapse
Navigate a ball through increasingly complex mazes, ensuring every square is visited before reaching the exit. Utilize hints or skip levels when you encounter challenges. Test your puzzle-solving skills as you advance through numerous stages.
- Maze navigation
- Visit every square
- Increasing difficulty
- Hint system
- Level skipping
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Find the path to the exit square and don’t fall off. Each square must be visited at least once. It may seem easy at the beginning, but it gets harder as you progress through the levels. How far will you go? If you're stuck, use the hints to get the right direction, or skip to the next level.;
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steer the Marbles at none against Collapse's 5. Steer the Marbles also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Collapse's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Collapse sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Steer the Marbles asks for nothing beyond the download.
Steer the Marbles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Collapse has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Steer the Marbles ships an update every 18 months, Collapse every 7 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Steer the Marbles | Collapse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | F Permadi | Tapotap |
Customer experience
Steer the Marbles
Collapse
In-app purchases
Steer the Marbles
No in-app purchases
Collapse
- Pack 1$0.99
- Skip level$0.99
- Pack 2$3.99
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- Pack 3$6.99
- Pack 4$11.99
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