Steer the Marbles vs Slide Ice Block
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.
Slide Ice Block
Engage in strategic, endless fun with this brain-training puzzle game. Slide blocks to fill rows and clear them, earning bonuses for multi-row eliminations. Navigate increasingly challenging levels with freezing conditions and motionless ice blocks.
- Two distinct game modes
- Intuitive drag-and-drop controls
- Score multipliers for multi-row clears
- Booster rewards
- Increasingly challenging gameplay
- Themed levels with freezing elements
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Slide Ice Block is strategic and endless fun game. Train your brain while having fun. Now, users can have two game modes. In the first mode, blocks drop from above while in the second mode, blocks grow from below. Slide Ice Block is easy to learn and fun to play. Drag blocks right or left and drop them to fill the gaps in the row. Complete the row and clear blocks. Eliminate more than one row in a single move to double or triple your score and get booster. As you play, the game gets colder and motionless ice blocks start to appear. Help penguin to survive in the freezing air. Contact us by sending email to info@appfore.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Slide Ice Block at none against Steer the Marbles's shown. Slide Ice Block also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 18 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Steer the Marbles against 4.9 for Slide Ice Block. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slide Ice Block has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Steer the Marbles ships an update every 18 months, Slide Ice Block every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steer the Marbles | Slide Ice Block |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | F Permadi | Appfore, LLC |
Customer experience
Steer the Marbles
Slide Ice Block
In-app purchases
Steer the Marbles
No in-app purchases
Slide Ice Block
No in-app purchases
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