Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 05:08 pm
Steel Revolt – Action Game Review
Steel Revolt is a Action game from ZeptoLab UK Limited, first launched in 13th November 2024.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 408+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Steel Revolt Stand Out
Enter a futuristic side-scrolling shooter where survival depends on you and the AI robot at your side.
Key Features:
- Dynamic side-scrolling shooter combat
- Upgrade your AI companion with new abilities
- A living robot powered by real AI – talk, strategize, and bond in natural conversations
- Multiple modes: story campaign & Radiation Zone (where only your bot dares to enter)
- Deep progression: customize weapons, gear, and AI upgrades
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Steel Revolt is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Steel Revolt 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:
Bro this damn game updated why the hell is everything we had gone like we worked so hard we were maxed out everything we had 992 or something in 900 amount of brain points.
This is a great game, but after being inactive for a couple of months, we lost all our data.
We dont like the all the waves we would perhaps like the old version with no waves but is still good game.
Keep getting our hard earned data deleted by updates.
Ok so we just wanted to play the game that we've bbeen playing since last year until there is a brand new update that COMPELYTY reset us we had to do the little assembing the guy the upgrade tree is not maxed we don't have the best gun andbik not on stage 15 anymore FIX IT and if you do we'll change 5 stars not that it mattersbut other tan that we love the game.
Title says it all, really. Fun game, but the latest update wiped our progress. We wasnt too far, but we were becoming invested in our little robot. Oh, well would be at least 4 stars, if not 5 but now Im afraid to play for fear of our progress being wasted again.
Bright color, clear gameplay, great ways to advance with a bit of variety. The gameplay (and their different modes) are pretty linear, but it isnt worth playing long-term, as every time the game is updated or remade, the game is bugged out, or your progress resets entirely. Ive happily put a bunch of hours into this game, until our progress has been wiped completely, 2-3 TIMES.
Lost all of our progress randomly.
We dont ever write a review, but this game is the best bang for your buck we have seen on the AppStore. Especially because its free! On top of that its a fun game and a cool concept.
Now that we're on the 8th and last chapter, getting legendaries isn't that hard at all. We ask for you guys to add higher rarities for all weapons and armor pieces for both the human and robot, thats all. This is a simple, yet, wonderful game, and we can't wait for more people to discover it.
We feel like we should be able to customize the robots, like how we built one at the start and added one skeleton arm, like we can buy parts and the more expensive the better, and they cheaper just broken bot pets.
Every since we downloaded it, we could not stop playing the game! The art design, the gameplay, we just loved it! But, we just have one concern: Ive read the critical reviews on this and some had said when the game updated, all progress was lost. So we assume that the games not built with something that allows players to sign in with Game Center, or something like that, putting them at risk of losing everything if they were to delete and then reinstall or if the game updated. We do not know if the game was built with a sign-in feature, so we might have to go back and check. If not, plz fix. Overall, awesome game. This also needs to go on platforms like Xbox and PlayStation. We are pretty confident your game will perform well among different platforms.
We just liked the beta better we could equip any gun or armor on us or the robot now we can only put this gun on the robot and our character is the only one who can wear this armor the og was better.
Lots of gear, upgrades, and enemies! Incredibly fun. Everyone should try this.
No ads and its not buggy at all you have a robot then you train it to be the best robot and go through chapters of story's and teach the robot. And there is gamemodes like see which robot is the best we're in gold by when you are seeing this and a chapters of only the robot going where humans can't go. We love it.
The AI teammate (and to a slightly lesser degree enemies) is truly incompetent when its fresh out the box but seeing all the AI move just a bit faster and aim a bit faster match by match feels like a serious challenge. When our partner just completely drops the ball it really does feel justified due to the lack of training. We also appreciate the talking sections for when you are on a losing streak to directly communicate better ways to fight. It is a little bit too annoying to switch weapons and abilities for both yourself and the AI however. The descriptions are kinda nice for a idea but you really do not have any clue what the AI is gonna do when you give them a new gun or amor and its kinda hard to tell in a battle. Maybe include some special weapon properties like no reloading into the descriptions so that you have more of an idea of whats different? And maybe a training ground where you can control the AI to see what their (and your own) weapons and armor are capable of without being shot at.
Ok so this game is awesome until you realize your custom responses arent making much difference in the robots dialog. Might we suggest using real ai language models and machine learning algorithms for better player experience. Also we would rather spend hours fighting our robot to make it better in combat, than hours leveling up a tech tree with points its kinda boring Please implement this stuff this game has the most potential out of any mobile game Ive played, and Id like to see it succeed Ps allow us to spar with the robot anytime we want.
This game is great honestly we think it is one of the best games Ive seen on the App Store in a long time, it is extremely addictive with the different features we just wish the campaign was longer and more upgrades.
Positives: Love gameplay loop. A bit grindy but the game is fun enough to justify. It reminds us a lot of web games like strike force heros of plasma burst 2 in the way it feels. It feels fluid and we like the physics. Rocket boots are fun and we like the customization of class you can change for your play style. Weapon types are fun, tho some weapons are objectively better. Addictive Negatives: First off, we find ourselves wishing there was an option in settings for manual aiming. It would add so much to the replayability and overall fun of the game. Other than that, Not a lot wrong except for occasionally getting our foot stuck into walls and floors and lack of content obv due the game being early access. Unlocked everything already. A gripe we do have is with the PvP or PvE. All the players are bots. All of their names are generic and repetitive and we see their ai bugging out in the corner some times. Makes playing multiplayer not really feel rewarding or worth it. Which again, we get it. Early access.
A good game but we wish there were more game mods and ability to replay past levels. It gets to a point where u can beat the last level so easily its not fun. We beat the game in a hour or 2 but the AI actually talking and responding to you is cool. A few recommendations Make more variety of online modes. Introduce voice or some chat to multiplayer. Allow you to fight your robot as practice matches. Ability to sell your old equipment or make a new system for it. Make all finished levels replayable. Idk what data this is mining but its a well built app.
We see the made with unity then the screen goes to grey and nothing happens. We cannot get to any other screen Ive restarted the game not sure what is going on.
This is a very good game! We really like the movement and the ability to explain certain things to the robot guy. This is a good game to play while waiting for something. Our only Annoying part of this game is some of the A.we. Art. Which only annoys us, its ignorable, but we understand that not all people are able to find artists for their game. Other then that, its great! We would recommend this to friends.
This amazing game deserves more love.and some updates.
This game is so good!! No ads, good gameplay loop, love that theres pvp and co-op just wish we could play with our friends but we bet theres an update on the horizon to fix that. Would also love to be able to change the location of controls but Im just knit-picking amazing game.
And an actually good game? What the heck is going on here? Finally the App Store is healing. And its all thanks to this game.
This game perfects almost every aspect it introduces. The art and animations are beautiful, the AI robot aspect is intriguing, and the game is overall fun. The difficulty is perfect- not too easy, not too hard. The only thing the game needs is more content. We would love new weapons, abilities, and enemies. (Although this game is already filled with a lot of content). This is the game we have been dreaming of.
If you added a level maker this game would be so fun and difficult(also add more to the Ai system and what happens when you upgrade the Ai to max level(the intelligence thing).
So, we love the update to the equipment system, no more selling equipment unfortunately, but that's not the point, we lost all of our progress and we mean all of it except for for some gear that we had roughly halfway to where we were, campaign fully reset and events are now locked, the gear we did get back was reset to level one, we know for a fact that the veteran players won't be happy about that.
We played this game and maxed out the AI skill tree, got the best equipment (l liked the purple sickle, the antimatter gun, and that white and red armor that shoots a bunch of missiles as its ability, and l got all our equipment and robots equipment up to level 28), and did the whole campaign all the way through. The new update came out, and they gave us some decent gear, but nowhere near what l had. Im gonna keep playing this game cos its one of the best mobile games Ive ever played, but it would have been nice to have some good gear out of it, or most of our AI tech tree points.
-The rounds are just short enough and progress at a great rate. -The items are surprisingly unique and have varying benefits. -No IAPs in our face.
Had a blast in the last version with an almost 100% winrate in pvp but we suspect it was all bots. Kinda sad we lost our progress having gotten to max bot level, but that just means we need to do it again.
Its an absolute fantastic game and depending on your playstyle the enemies will try to adapt and its just really cool interesting and fun, but it does get pretty repetitive a lot and for some reason all our data was reset so now we gotta go through HOURS of getting it back :/ (EDIT: just realized we were playing beta version and the new update made it non-beta so we understand the data reset and the compensation! This game is truly the greatest.).
Every update makes us restart stop doing that sh.
It wont let us play the new mode and it says its 1.8 ver a but our friends is 1.8 ver B and he can play the mode. We cant update and dont know what to do.
It has a LOT of potential and we think the devs should use that and make the game themselves.
Gameplay lacks depth, the core idea is fun but there no storyline or any meaningful progression apart from new weapons. The game saving part is the most important issue to developers and players. 6+ hours lost (4 different progs gone) due to no saving. 3.8/5 update: they restored some stuff (very cool) and released progression (also very cool) but we feel like the option to switch between auto aim and self aim while in game would be a good addition, the auto-aim is probably done on purpose by devs but it is annoying sometimes 4.4/5.
Its a great game but its just lacking variety and depth and we wish we could customize our robot more than armor but also our progress was reset for some reason and we kept our gear but everything else was reset idk why.
We loved this game so much, but it deleted all our progress we gust hoped in and everything we did was gone please fix this NOW.
Game gets boring after a few hours.
Started playing recently and its a pretty fun gameplay loop and there isnt any ads from what we can tell. But besides that we LOVE THE ROBOT COMPANION HES SOOOO ADORABLE, we LOVE MY BABY BOY we HAVE TO PROTECT HIM.
We like this game because its one of the first games Ive ever seen that uses AI. Its amazing in the AI actually remembers what you say. We definitely recommend this game if you want to see what AI has to offer.
We really love it especially when it is offline and cool stuff.
The game is really fun and great but we think we beat the game to quickly and we need more AI brain upgrades, weapons, armor, and more levels with new robots but other than that the game is awesome.
An amazing game but at a certain point it just gets very repetitive.
On steel bastion there is no more drops so we are stuck with no armor for ourselves because we accidentally sold it, also there is nothing to do with our 2000 intelligence points.
This game is the best game Ive played on mobile so far and its amazing but theres some bugs. When Im fighting its either us or the robot getting stuck in the ground and then we cant move at all. Please fix this.
This game is amazing and we never thought we would be thinking of a video game ai like our actual son.
This new update really makes the game a lot better in our eyes.
We love this game but it needs more levels and a endless mode.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.3
- Size: 228.81 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: ZeptoLab UK Limited
Last updated: 8th January 2026 | Genre: Action | Developer: ZeptoLab UK Limited