diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4a42b2080..f4cc7d466 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Rocketeer follows the [Semantic Versioning 2.0](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.ht
 
 ### Fixed
 - Fixed remote storage being written to in pretend mode
+- Fixed `StepsRunner` not halting the running of steps upon encountering a strict false
 
 ## [2.2.1] - 2016-07-10
 
diff --git a/src/Rocketeer/Traits/StepsRunner.php b/src/Rocketeer/Traits/StepsRunner.php
index 8e31211f1..4d9949a5b 100644
--- a/src/Rocketeer/Traits/StepsRunner.php
+++ b/src/Rocketeer/Traits/StepsRunner.php
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ public function runSteps()
         $steps = $this->steps()->pullSteps();
         foreach ($steps as $step) {
             list($method, $arguments) = $step;
-            $arguments                = (array) $arguments;
+            $arguments = (array) $arguments;
 
             $results = call_user_func_array([$this, $method], $arguments);
-            $results = $results ?: $this->status();
+            $results = is_bool($results) ? $results : $this->status();
             if (!$results) {
                 return false;
             }
diff --git a/tests/Traits/StepsRunnerTest.php b/tests/Traits/StepsRunnerTest.php
index 891b59b44..c6e634a80 100644
--- a/tests/Traits/StepsRunnerTest.php
+++ b/tests/Traits/StepsRunnerTest.php
@@ -40,4 +40,20 @@ public function testStepsAreClearedOnceRun()
             ['run', ['php --version']],
         ], $task->steps()->getSteps());
     }
+
+    public function testStopsOnStrictFalse()
+    {
+        $this->expectOutputString('');
+
+        $this->task('Deploy')->steps()->addStep(function () {
+            return false;
+        });
+
+        $this->task('Deploy')->steps()->addStep(function () {
+            echo 'foobar';
+            return true;
+        });
+
+        $this->task('Deploy')->runSteps();
+    }
 }