Controls in eight steps
Pick a mode, an arena and a difficulty
From the main menu choose single player (you against 14 bots, any of the 13 arenas, five difficulty levels) or multiplayer (a real-time online room of up to 15 players that rolls a random arena). Hold the phone in landscape.
Tilt to roll
Tilt the phone forward to accelerate, back to brake and sideways to turn. Your ball keeps its momentum, so start turns early and let the walls and ramps bank you around corners.
Tap JUMP to hop
The left button jumps. Use it to clear fences, get onto crates for a better angle, dodge an incoming grenade or drop off a ramp faster than anyone can aim.
Tap FIRE to shoot
The right button fires your equipped weapon in the direction you are rolling. Keep moving while you shoot: a rolling ball is much harder to hit than a parked one.
Throw a grenade
The GRENADE button lobs a grenade with a two-second fuse and 60 splash damage in a four-metre radius, then needs three seconds to cool down. Bank it off a wall into a lane full of balls.
Use the knife up close
The KNIFE button lunges two metres for 45 damage with a one-second cooldown. When a ball is right next to you it is faster than any gun.
Grab the pickups
Health restores you. Freeze stops every enemy for ten seconds. Flash is a rare bonus pickup on a two-minute respawn — a burst of light when you grab it. Coins go straight into your wallet.
Win the deathmatch
Every frag is a point on the bar at the top and 5 coins. When the timer runs out (five minutes offline, four online), the ball with the most frags wins — and earns 50 bonus coins on top of the 20 for finishing.
The HUD at a glance
| Element | Where | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Health bar | Top centre | Your remaining health out of 100. It turns from green to yellow to red — find a health pickup before it gets there. |
| Timer | Under the health bar | Time left in the match: five minutes in single player, four online. |
| Kills / Deaths | Top right | Your frags and deaths this match. |
| Place | Top right | Your position out of 15 balls in the arena. |
| Coins | Top | Coins collected so far — they are banked even if you lose. |
| Enemy health bars | Above each ball | How much a target has left. Pick the low one. |
| Announcer | Voice + screen flash | Ultra Kill (3 in a row), Unstoppable (5), Godlike (15). |
Tactics that win matches
- Learn the health spawns. Health returns every 15–30 seconds in fixed places. Rolling past one on your way to a fight is worth more than any weapon upgrade.
- Use height. On a crate or ramp you see more of the arena, and bots below struggle to hit you. Jump off the moment two balls look at you.
- Freeze, then feast. Ten seconds with every enemy frozen is enough to line up three or four frags with the Halo or Supernova. Grab the bottle when the arena is crowded, not when it is empty.
- Grenades are for corners. Throwing at a ball you can already shoot wastes the cooldown. Throw where balls are about to be — chokepoints, health spawns, the lane behind a crate.
- Speed is armour. A fast ball is hard to lead; bots on Hardcore and Nightmare punish anyone who stops to aim.
- Chase the streak. The kill-streak announcer is not just for show: chaining frags without dying is exactly how you climb from 11/15 to 1/15.
- Buy the shield first. For 300 coins the defence shield halves every bullet's damage — the best value in the shop before any weapon.
Which difficulty should I pick?
| Level | Pick it when |
|---|---|
| I Can Win | You are learning the tilt and the arenas. Bots barely hurt you. |
| Bring It On | You can finish in the top five and want a fair fight. |
| Hurt Me Plenty | You know the health spawns and want bots that punish mistakes. |
| Hardcore | You want fast, accurate bots and real duels. |
| Nightmare | One hit kills you. Survive as long as you can — that is the game. |
Playing online
Choose multiplayer from the main menu and the game finds a room — or opens one — on Photon Fusion 2. The room rolls a random arena for everyone, holds up to 15 real players and shows nicknames above every ball. Online rooms have no bots, so every frag you take is another person's. Enter a nickname in the options first if you want it on the frag bar.
Earning and spending coins
Frags pay 5 coins, finishing a match 20, winning it 50, and the 7-day login streak grows from 20 to 120 coins a day. Coins picked up in the arena are banked immediately. In the shop: Lightning 250, Halo 500, Supernova 800, defence shield 300, skins from 100 to 800 — 3,400 coins for everything, no purchase required. Coin packs and a Remove Ads subscription are there if you prefer to skip ahead.
The tilt controls feel inverted or the ball drifts on its own
Hold the phone flat in landscape and make sure rotation lock is off. If the ball drifts while the phone is flat, put it on a table for a second when the match starts — the accelerometer calibrates to how you hold it.
How do I switch weapons or skins?
Buy them in the main-menu shop, then tap the item to equip it. One weapon and one skin are active at a time; the change applies to your next match.
Can I play with friends?
Online rooms are matched automatically; there is no private lobby yet. Join at the same time and you will usually land in the same room.
Practice makes Godlike
Balls Tournament is free on the App Store and Google Play.