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Balls of Steel
The Balls are Back! The legendary 90s pinball game Balls of Steel returns to PC in all of its radical retro glory. Play through 5 classic top-down pinball tables and two BRAND NEW tables in classic BoS Style! Get 7 awesome retro tables in one package, rebuilt to run on modern PC hardware!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Back in around 2000 I bought BALLS OF STEEL on CD-ROM, it came with 4 tables plus a bonus "Duke Nukem" table. That table isn't in this collection, but in it's place is another table "Devil's Island", as well as two tables themed from Atari coin-ops Centipede and Missile Command,…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Hi, I have sever memory problems. I like this set of game tables - And every 2 weeks that I fire up my gaming computer {on the weekends) this is one of my first choices. Over and over, I can't explain why. You're second to me firing up the Coleco Collection - the game…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“Extremely glitchy. Ball stops suddenly then hyper-moves on. True on all tables. (Yes, I have a nice computer so it's not CPU lag...) Thought I could play through it a bit but it jumped past my flippers one too many times. I'd return it after 30 minutes of play time but since it…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedLatest official news
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Patch Notes for May 18th, 2025
1. Rewritten rendering with OpenGL. Now scales to any screen size with no borders. 2. All tables now have full screen and scrolling mode working correctly. F2 cycles between the two rendering modes. 3
Patch Notes for February 5th, 2024
Hello, Ballers! We've listened to your feedback, and have made adjustments to the gamepad controls for Balls of Steel. Now, you can use your controller's Left and Right Triggers or bumpers to activate
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Casual, Simulation |
| Player tags | Physics · Tabletop · Arcade · 2D · Isometric · Casual · Top-Down · Simulation · Controller · Cartoony · Colorful · Score Attack (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Shared/Split Screen · Partial Controller Support · Remote Play Together · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://atari.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or newer Processor: Dual Core + Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 640 MB available space