Last updated on February 14th, 2026 at 08:40 pm
Roller Polar – Action Game Review
Roller Polar is a Action/Entertainment/Casual game from Nitrome, first launched in 4th December 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 61+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Roller Polar Stand Out
Take control of your Polar Bear and ride the snowball down the mountain. Watch out for the boulders, trees and wildlife!
Day and night the ball keeps rolling, faster and faster it goes, what's the highest score? Nobody knows!
Features:
• Addictive one touch gameplay that is easy to pick up but difficult to master!
• Awesome pixel art from the award winning studio Nitrome.
• Real-time dynamic day and night gameplay. So if it's day outside, it's day in the game! If it's night… oh you get the idea!
• Music by Dave Cowen(Creator of Icebreaker – A Viking Voyage)
• Unlockable Achievements
• It's a Polar Bear running on a giant snowball down a mountain! What more do you want!
Important Message for Parents
This game may include:
- Direct links to social networking websites that are intended for an audience over the age of 13.
- Direct links to the internet that can take players away from the game with the potential to browse any web page.
- Advertising of Nitrome products.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Roller Polar is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th January 2025
Recent improvements include:
- The game now has fullscreen support for modern devices!
The artwork in menus and in-game has been has been extended to support taller screen ratios. - Bug fixes
- Updated libraries for compliance
Download & Availability
Roller Polar 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:
A great achievement! RollerPolar is a great time waster by nitrome! In the game you play as a polar bear rolling downhill on a snowball. There are many obstacles including trees,rocks,snowman,and even the animals. You have a powerful jump and double jump so everytime you get over something you get a point and that's the goal: to get the highest score in order to be the best! This leads to addictive competition with friends. Like all nitrome games, it has one-touch game that's easy to learn and hard to master. You can also collect coins and buy other bears. If there's something we can't "bear" it's that this game isn't the best nitrome game. But even then, it's a perfect example of nitrome's fantastic throw-back graphics and music! It's a sure 5/5 stars.
The game is fun and we love the graphics, although we have one complaint, you missed the chance to call it roller bear. It makes us very mad that you did not call it that. We expect more from the best game studio on the App Store. But in all honesty we love you guys and the game plays extremely well, keep doing what you're doing.
Ive played this game on android before, and we loved it. For some reason we cant remove ads, and at times they dont display properly.
It has this issue where ad removal is impossible and the achievements are broken.
Not opposed to ads, but every third game, A blank ad will pop up making it impossible to return to the game without restarting it.
The game is cute. It should be different every time you start though because it's better if the obstacles are unpredictable. It makes it challenging. But great game.
A little glitchy sometimes but not too bad, also they missed the chance to call the game roller bear :/. Real fun infinite game all around otherwise.
This game is fun, and addicting. But it often glitches, and repeats the same obstacle, without giving you any points. To actually play, you have to restart. Nitrome, you've had some good games, and we think you can improve this one, if you fix this problem.
It doesn't jump when you want it to and it's boring.
This game is super addictive! It's very fun and entertaining. There's simple controls and we think that's one of the plus sides of this game. And mr Dr. Butterball, first off sorry about the misfortunate name and second this is a game for people who are trying to time, and it does its job pretty well.
Hey,we're sure you see us a lot on reviews, and we must say, we love this game! Simple controls, and we are a girl and have a 47 best! As you can see, we video games :3.
We're going to rate 5 stars because we know that nitrome makes the best mobile games ever and this game will be great and have none of the pay to win cancer that plagues the market.
We got this game on our iPad and we got it on our iPod. This game is super addicting. Watch out for the snowman.
This game is A+! The controls are simple: tap once to jump, tap twice to double jump (does that explain why you couldn't get over the tree to those who were complaining?). Listen, Nitrome makes games for GAMERS, specifically those who can figure out game controls without a tutorial (we're not the only one who has eagerly lept into a game and completely skipped the tutorial because thug life) and honestly, you don't need a tutorial for this incredibly simple game. It's definitely a good time waster, and is more about beating your friends high scores. Who cares about the physical anatomy of a polar bear or the perfect roundness of a snow ball (we're talking to you Dr. Butter thumbs!) this game is just a source of entertainment on a bus or train or maybe in a doctor's office. It does the job perfectly. So don't be fooled by biased or misinformed reviews, try it for yourself. It's really a great game.
We love the game, never had a problem with it.
This game changed our life, we now see the whole world differently. We used to be a 5 foot 6 Asian lady, but now Imma 6 foot 9 black man named treyvon with long blonde luscious locks. 11/10 IGN.
We love these games because they really respect the intelligence of a gamer. There's no tutorial or anything you can figure it out. Some of you have probably watched egorapter's sequalitis where he talks about this. +A.
Don't get us wrong this game is fun and addicting but we think there should be more characters and different types of worlds. It's a Great Game and we love it.
We need to play this game just to hear the chewie scream at the beginning. The art is awesome. Fun game for the season. A+.
It was great in all but we just froze.Like the game is going because you can hear it but you can't see it.we will tell you guys if it starts working.If this is happening to you then tell us please.
The game is great we love the simplicity of a one touch game with as much detail as this. However, the only objective is to beat your own high score. An addition of finding coins, unlocking new characters, and playing in different maps would make this game an easy 5 star rating.
Fun, cute, and addictive. Overall we like it. The dynamic night and day feature, however, is more of a nuisance As the obstacle blends into the dark background at night, which makes the game unnecessarily difficult and less enjoyable. Otherwise it is a very good game.
This game seems pretty fun but we keep getting stuck in an ad window we can't close. Otherwise a pretty straightforward reaction time game.
Nitrome's move to mobile apps has been going pretty well so far. Roller Polar is their second attempt at a free game, and it's just average. It's fun for a few times, but there's not much to it besides a high score. If you're easily amused by games like Flappy Bird, this is for you.
Restored in app purchases and still seeing ads. What's up with that.
It is a very game but it doesn't have the customization we've come to expect from Nitrome! If they add customization then we'll gladly add the 2 extra stars.
We played the game for hours trying to get a better score but it's simple and unrealistic.
Excellent gameplay but after happily paying a dollar to remove ads (and support a game we enjoyed) we still get pop ups for ads from the game developer, sometimes while we are in the middle of playing. This is pretty ridiculous and seriously cheapens the experience.
Video playing when we die. Seriosly Nitrome.
Worst app ever! When we play the bear turns to another player goes to the home screen and when we jump it double jumps and we can't control it and it is not our iPad our iPad has never glitched before don't get this app or you mill regret it worst app ever made.
He claims to be thug life and a gamer but the only thing he was ever good at in life was eating pizza rolls. This game is terrible. Full stop. Repetitive, clumsy, and overall garbage, just like Philosoraptor's life.
Never get this app total dissapointment.
Cute game. Can't seem to figure out how to jump over the first tree and the hint only shows up the first attempt at the jump, which we didnt even have time to figure out what it was doing. Lame.
This game has like a beat to it. You want to start moving all your body parts cuz it has a rhythm. YOU NEED THIS GAME.
This game is really addicting and fun to play all around. We recommend this game if your looking for something challenging.
Everything they make just seems to either be good, or at least charming, and in this case: both.
This is definitely one of the better games made by Nitrome. They are all good bit this one is fun, addicting, and challenging all at once. If anyone is thinking about getting Roller Polar they should.
We've played your games since we were a kid, and no we can enjoy the best games on the go.
Fun, addicting, nice graphics, original, but nothing to work for. We're assuming they'll add new characters soon.
C'mon Nitrome, you're better than this. You made creative, full-fledged, complex games, great games. You sort of did that with Ice Vikings on the App Store, but that wasn't one of your better games. You know what was? Feed us. Speaking of which, when's Super Feed us.
This game is fine if you're REALLY bored, if not, it's pretty boring… In regards to the review below, Nitrome said they aren't going to finish it anytime soon.
The "great reviews" are written by the creators and friends. This game is horribly UNENTERTAINING. This might have been fun on Atari 20 years ago. So stupid, boring and basic. We've lost 2 minutes of our life downloading, playing and deleting this game. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME, YOU CANNOT GET IT BACK.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.2
- Size: 84.33 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Nitrome
Last updated: 15th January 2025 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Nitrome