Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 08:07 am
Boson X – Action Game Review
Boson X is a Action/Casual game from The Trustee for Shape Shop Trust, first launched in 26th September 2013.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 104+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Boson X Stand Out
Boson X is a fast-paced rotational runner set in a particle accelerator.
Featured as one of the Best of 2013 apps on the App Store.
"a brilliant, twitchy arcade masterpiece that pulsates with originality and heart" – Pocket Gamer, 9/10
"a massively unique take on the endless runner genre" – Gamezebo, 4.5/5
"an amazingly compelling game" – Touch Arcade, 5/5
Quantum jump from Planck to Planck as you build up speed inside an enormous particle accelerator and generate high-energy collisions to discover strange new particles. Use precise timing and fast reflexes to navigate a hazardous subatomic world where floors and ceilings don't exist. Will you be fast enough to find the elusive Boson X?
This game contains no in-app purchases, superfluous power-ups, coins or XP systems – just deadly serious scientific research.
iPhone 4 or newer recommended.
WARNING: Some sections of this game contain flashing lights.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Boson X is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th April 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
iPhone X support.
Download & Availability
Boson X is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is a blast, the challenging levels never get too frustrating and never got old. One of our fav mobile games ever.
This is the best game in the App Store. Its simpleness and difficulty brings hours of joy. It is certainly an amazing game.
Bought this game years ago and still play it. Also we tend to pass it to youngsters and challenge them with the levels. Its really an excellent game and worth every penny.
This is one of our go-to games on our phone, as it's excellent gameplay, unique music, and addictive nature really makes it a long-time favorite. However, we feel like there's room for more levels. The lack of any real replay value once you beat all of the levels is a bit disappointing, but besides that, an excellent app that is great, but could be so much better. 8/10.
The game had been lagging on iPhone 11 Pro Max after update. The game itself is good, but please fix this it never happened before on much older devices.
This game is one of the best games ever made for a phone !!! We would go crazy and sell our soul if we get more new levels.
This game has all the things that a runner has without all the bogus IAPs. Do yourself a solid and buy this game it's worth.
While this game may seem cool at first, that's really all it has going for it. As you sink your teeth into the later levels, it relies on tactics to make the game more difficult that end up being very frustrating instead of fun. For example, one of the levels changes the texture of the platforms so you can barley differentiate one from the other, that being the main difficult part of the level.
We played this game so much that we have every level beaten. Please make more levels ^^.
This is definitely the best runner game on the App Store. It provides a challenge unlike any other, and keeps you entertained better than other runners. It simply doesn't get boring. It is not filled with adds, in app purchases or coins, which gives the whole gave a smooth, polished feel. Again, the best running game existing, get it.
Wonderful game, we love playing this game and comparing hi scores with friends via Game Center. If developers are looking at these reviews, could you please add M fI support for game pads? It would be amazing.
One of the hardest games we've played in a long time, the art and casual play style keep us coming back. Took us about 550 tries to beat the last level (anti x boson) but it feels incredibly rewarding. We'd recommend it to anyone who wants a challenge in a mobile game.
Such a great time! Thanx guys for making this game available ! We are looking forward to the new updates.
We don't know we're else we can say this, but the Anti Y Boson experiment sometimes spawns a laser in a section where only one platform is available. In the parts where there are two blue energy tiles, one directly above the other, a laser will spawn in the center and touch us. There aren't any other paths we can take by the time we get hit. It's preventing us from continuing. Leaving five stars anyways though because the game is great otherwise.
Thanks for the fix! Game rocks.
Great game and fun but anti x boson will make you cry and scream and rage until you die.
We love this game, and we don't usually like this kind of game. The graphics, sound and music are great. We love the sci-fi like theme. The only thing we would like to suggest is a way to turn rapid blinking off in some of the levels, in a settings menu or otherwise. Between not having the best eyesight and being autistic with sensory sensitivity it is a little overwhelming to us. We know the blinking is probably meant to be challenging but maybe it could have slower blinking or be similar to the background.
A great update for an awesome game. Though we wish the new content was more frequent, the quality of it makes it worthwhile.
This game is crazy insane. We loved every moment of it. We replay levels day after day because of their different challenges as interesting effects. This game is awesome.
Great music, design and the added iPhone 6 Plus support is appreciated. Thanks.
Combine super hexagon with canabalt and you get this baby. Graphics are well done, fun gameplay, lots of replay value, challenging. What doesn't this game do right? UPDATE: 2 updated since we've bought this game, means 12 additional crazy difficult levels. And two new characters! This developer obviously still has a passion for this game, as do we and hopefully many others. Boson X is just perfection. Thanks to the developer the price for this game is more than worth it.
This game is amazing don't get us wrong. But your latest update ruined the resolution on the iPhone 5s. There are two black bars on either side that shrink the playable size. Fix this for 5 stars again.
We got the new update and it's great, but we have an iPhone5 and it went back to iphone 4 optimization. We guess it's a big.
Boson X is one of our favorite games. It's really fun to play and super addicting. However, in the latest update that added support for iPhone 6 resolutions, it decreases the resolution on our iPhone 5S. In other words, the resolution that we're stuck with right now is an iPhone 4 resolution. There are two black nothings on the edges of the screen, and since we have fat fingers and in used to using the whole screen to play boson x, we sometimes tap those black nothings and since nothing happens, we die. If you could fix this, then you deserve our 5 stars.
Love the game and was excited for more levels but the controls have had issues since we updated earlier today. It doesn't always jump and occasionally jumps the wrong way when we touch the screen. Please fix this.
We have some of the highest ranks in Boson X but the anti Y Boson level has some issues. At some points the level is impossible and will kill you even if you played the level right. The lasers will stay over the only safe route and prevent you from actually finishing the level. Fix it now.
Why do we have black bars again? Pls fix, it's unplayable now (since touch controls don't register on the black bars).
We hated this game until we figured out we were suppose to get as much blu as we can and we luv the music and the challenge.
This app has taken us a LOOOOONG time to complete. But in general, we love it. It is the best way to kill time despite the amount of times we've wanted to break our phone. More levels for this game would be great.
Fun game, well done. Gets a bit difficult, but that's not a problem, it's a good thing. :).
Boson X is really hard. It is a really hard game. You won't beat this game, probably ever. You might not even be able to beat this game. You can get to the last level of the game, and that would be pretty amazing. It is a true test of skill. It has instant replay ability. There is just a really great feeling when you play the game of just constantly making the right decision at the last second and realize that you just avoided instantaneous death. That part is a blast. Music is really good. Got a really banging sound track that gets you into the different levels. We think you'll really like it.
Great game, only problem is the absence of the anti- particle levels. We thought it would be a good idea to change graviton to gravitron, as anti- gravitron would be the PERFECT shout-out to VVVVVV, with the level physics and all (if you don't get it, check out the steam version to get the joke.).
We just play the last level and we wish another upgrade with new levels , one of the best games we love it.
Most endless runners and reflex games rely on a part of the brain that chemically rewards almost-success the same as actual success. So that charge of anger you get when losing at Flippy Bird is on fact your reward for playing the game. Boson X is HARD. But doesn't make you want to throw your phone at the wall.
Really fun easily worth the dollar.
Amazing simple fun best runner out there.
This game is our absolute favorite app. However, as there is room for improvement, we will give our suggestions on ways to improve. 1. A button that turns the level into the 100% version. We get tired of having to constantly beat the level just to get to the 100% version. 2. More researchers. This may be asking too much, but we'd like to have more playable researchers. Maybe with different stats and such. But that's about it. Great app, insanely addictive, 9.5/10.
This game is even better Could you add antimatter levels.
We play this a lot on our first day we beat experiments Geon, Accelleron, Radion, and Graviton. We're stuck on Y Boson. By the way you should add a level where you get one life and it can only be played once a week called Higgs Boson… Really cool app. Must get.
Good game and it's worth it now with the new levels.
Very fun and rewarding gameplay.
It is fun and contains no bs IAPs.
This game is mind blowing! Each level is unique in its pattern and puzzle. The colors… Oh boy! The COLORS!!! Seizure inducing utopia! This game is designed very well and has replayability (usually because you're going to lose a bunch). This needs to go under your permanent gaming library. Oh yeah… Six new levels of the same different, if you know what we mean.
This is a pretty fun game, but it's very difficult to make any meaningful progress. We've only been able to beat a couple levels and since we're just a casual player, we may not progress much further.
TIPS: 1) use headphones- to block out distractions to help stay focused. 2) pattern recognition- see the different sections that are being put in a random order. It makes navigating the platforms more manageable. not much help on lvl 11 & 12 3) be persistent- keep on trying time after time. You'll get it eventually. Warning: Doing this on lvl 12, may result in a absurd run count number. 4) try to stay calm- because you will do better. We know some levels that is asking a lot. ————— boson x DISCOVERED / dark boson x DISCOVERED we BEAT THE GAME. So it is possible?! We wasn't sure if we would be able to. Definitely, the most difficult reflex based game we have ever finished. We're surprised by how obsessed we got with this game. ————— Boson X is a fast & challenging game. The graphics has a very colorful & simple look. We like the design of the icon. The frame rate is always smooth. The music is quite good. Seeing how it never got irritating hearing it over & over & over again trying to clear the levels. The controls work but do take time to get used to them. Minus one star for the madness that is level 12. We feel that the visual trick for that level, just takes the craziness to far. We think the level would still be the hardest in the game, without the visual trick. It feels like punishment for getting that far. We did get through it. Doesn't mean we have to like it. No rate this app nagging. No IAP abuse. No ads. Just pay & play.
Change it so that there are control options. We want to control the middle jump with one touch, not two. Make it so that if we tap the middle of the screen we jump straight forward.
Difficulty should scale better and be adjustable. Randomness is not always a virtue. Lost interest quickly.
This game is challenging and fast-paced, but the touch controls are buggy at best and unresponsive at worst on the iPhone version. We'd enjoy it more if that gets fixed.
This game has a chance to be an essential must-have game, but it suffers considerably because of the unfortunate randomness. We don't mind if a game is extremely difficult if it is fair and if there's a way to win. But too often in a run there simply isn't anywhere to jump to. So you die helplessly over and over just hoping to get that one random level where you can complete it. If every random generation was done where there was a way to get 100%, then that would change the game immensely.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.0
- Size: 22.49 MB
- iOS: 9.3 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: The Trustee for Shape Shop Trust
Last updated: 19th April 2018 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: The Trustee for Shape Shop Trust