Patience Balls

Patience Balls is a physics puzzle game where you tilt boards to shift gravity and roll metal balls into holes. Its 100 hand-crafted levels grow more complex as you progress, sometimes splitting the play area into multiple boards that all tilt with a single movement. A change that helps on one board can disrupt another.

Choose a mode

You can switch modes at any time on any level. Zen Mode adds protective walls to keep the balls on the board, while Patience Mode has no walls; sending a ball over the edge forces an instant restart.

Solve the levels

The campaign follows a non-linear branching map where you choose your route. Many puzzles have multiple solutions, letting you take a safer path or risk a shortcut. Later levels introduce mechanics and obstacles that alter how you solve them:

• Switches: roll over floor switches to drop walls, raise barriers or unlock trapped balls.
• Portals: teleport balls across gaps and between disconnected platforms.
• Elevators: lift balls to higher platforms and tiers.
• Bumpers: bounce balls off angled walls to redirect their momentum.
• Reverse-gravity balls: cyan balls roll opposite to your tilt.
• Explosive balls: touching an orange ball detonates it, blasting every ball on the board into the void.

Create and share levels

A built-in level editor lets you combine board shapes, stack platforms and use alignment grid lines to snap pieces into place. You can test levels instantly, publish them through Steam Workshop and browse, rate and play community-made levels in the in-game browser, with levels filtered by difficulty.

Times and customization

You can aim to beat strict target times and earn stars, then compete for the fastest runs on global leaderboards. The game also includes unlockable ball materials, skins and trails. Its presentation uses minimal interface clutter, fluid board motion and focused ambient audio.