Check the guide
Orange lines show the angle you are aiming for. Read that guide before you commit. The first tap already starts a bend you cannot wait away.
Casual puzzle · Free · Designed for iPad
Every tapleaves a mark.
Metal Stress is a material-bending puzzle for iPhone and iPad. A thin strip is mounted in a workshop. Tap it and it flexes, then springs back holding a fraction of that bend — the metal remembers. Repeat taps on the same point to build the angle, chain several points for a sharper zigzag, and land inside the amber guide with as few taps as you can. Waiting does not undo a bend.
Lives 3/3
Level 01
Flex, then remember
Each tap is a two-stage motion: the strip flexes, springs back, and holds a fraction of the bend. More taps on the same point build toward the required angle.
Watch fatigue
Later strips carry a safe tap count. Push a joint past that limit and it cracks, costing a life. Overshoot means working around the set, not taking it back.
One strip. Then a harder shop.
The workshop starts with a single mounted strip and a readable target. Later phases add more bend points, more strips, and a tighter tolerance around the amber guide.
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Point
Build one angle
Taps in the same spot stack permanent deformation in that direction. The metal never returns all the way to straight.
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Chain
Zigzag the strip
Several bend points along one strip make sharper shapes. Each point still sets on its own and still remembers.
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Phase
More metal, less room
Further on, layouts use more than one strip, and the window that counts as a match gets narrower. Fewer taps is the better solve.
A workshop on the device.
The App Store lists Metal Stress as a free English casual puzzle, designed for iPad, rated 4+, and marked as containing advertising.
What the bench asks
No account is described on the store listing. You read the guide, tap the strip, and live with the set.
- Shape memory The spring-back keeps a fraction of every flex. The rest of the bend is already in the metal.
- No undo by waiting Time does not straighten a joint. An overshoot has to be worked around.
- Tap economy Matching the guide in fewer taps is the cleaner solve, before fatigue has a chance to crack the joint.
- Free, with ads The listing says the game contains advertising. The privacy sheet covers the data label.
On the App Store
Designed for iPad. Requires iOS 15 or later. The Mac build requires Apple silicon and macOS 12 or later, and is marked not verified for macOS. Apple Vision requires visionOS 1 or later.
- Category
- Casual puzzle
- Price
- Free
- Size
- 118.2 MB
- Language
- English
- Age
- 4+
- System
- iOS 15+
Support stays on the product page. Questions about Metal Stress, including privacy, go through the options on its App Store listing.
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