# PBA® Bowling Challenge — user reviews > 534 indexed App Store user reviews of PBA® Bowling Challenge by Concrete Software, Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 130,562 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pba-bowling-challenge/id657459418/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pba-bowling-challenge/id657459418.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 102,246 · 4★ 17,905 · 3★ 6,326 · 2★ 1,818 · 1★ 2,267 ## What do users think of PBA® Bowling Challenge? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ⭐ Best game for stress - ⭐ Fun and challenging gameplay - ⭐ Realistic bowling experience - ⭐ Great graphics and sound effects - ⭐ Variety of venues and features **Cons** - 🙄 Excessive ads and in-app purchases - 🤔 Tournaments feel rigged at times - 😒 Progression is too grindy - 🤯 Frequent bugs and crashes - 🤬 Loss of progress and saved data **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes after watching ads - Progress and stats randomly reset - Multiplayer matchmaking issues - Inconsistent ball behavior and glitches **Most requested features** - Instant replay and save clip feature - Point difference counter - One ball roll-off for tied games - Option to disable crowd noise - More realistic ball physics and behavior ## Newest reviews (13 of 534) ### 3/5 — Not every pro bowler is listed *2026-07-12, version 3.22.0* It says that you can bowl against the women’s PBA bowlers but when I go to the practice screen it only show the men bowlers not the women’s pwba bowlers ### 4/5 — Really *2026-07-11, version 3.22.0* If you really want a better review then take away all the cheating giving strikes only when y’all want us to have them and get rid of the dang ads u have so Many ads after each game there’s ads get rid of that please ### 4/5 — Not bad but could be amazing *2026-07-02, version 3.22.0* Good game but I can only bowl 1 game,it takes a lot of energy and takes so long to replenish ### 3/5 — To many ads *2026-05-27, version 3.22.0* This is a great game, but there are too Many ads. I understand that’s how they make money, but a lot of the ads are buggy and won’t let you exit out them to get back to the game itself. If the developers can correct this issue, it’ll be a 5 star game. ### 3/5 — Will not buy energy haha… *2026-05-20, version 3.22.0* Cool game but I trying playing the game and the next thing I know is I’m out of energy. So then I can’t even play the game that i downloaded. I can’t even play the game you made. I like the game a lot but energy costs ruin it. ### 4/5 — Fun Game *2026-05-18, version 3.22.0* The game is great, but the ads are excessive and they don’t give you the option to buy an ad-free experience outright. You have to buy something in the store to get ad-free play for 30 days. Then you have to keep buying something in the store every 30 days because the experience with ads is unbearable. After every single game there is an ad and it’s just so miserable. Greed is a nasty thing. ### 3/5 — … *2026-05-05, version 3.22.0* A great game just soooo many ads. ### 2/5 — Ads *2026-05-01, version 3.22.0* Was one of my favorite mobile games for the longest time, just got on an now its an ad after every single game… thanks for selling out! Literally was my favorite solely because I didn’t have to worry about pop ups or ads. ### 4/5 — performance and ads *2026-04-27, version 3.22.0* playing this game is a lot of fun and nostalgic. the issues i have is the consistent ads after every game and every free spin. it is just unbearable and the main reason why i don't always like playing this game. the performance is good but also a bit laggy, pretty annoying too but it's not as bad as the horrific amount of ads. the ads are really the most annoying and aggravating part of this app. ### 2/5 — It’s ok but laggy *2026-04-12, version 3.22.0* I was doing multiplayer and it kept freezing ### 3/5 — Fix This! *2026-04-10, version 3.22.0* When i first started playing this game it was fun and challenging. I have completed all the tournaments and now I just play the events. The same events over and over. Here are complaints: 1.) Need new event venues these are old and boring. 2.) I find it interesting when I’m playing an event and I’m 235 + and half way through I’m throwing 160s because my stops spinning. That’s rigged. If you’re gonna do that at least let us any ball we like. Especially if we spent the $ to own them. That’s a complete rip off. 3.) Like i said in the former paragraph, get rid of the scripting. If the AI’s gonna beat me let it be fair and square. I have lost countless games by one pin and that isn’t any coincidence. A lot of complain about this. Quit putting a restriction on the spin of my ball. It’s ridiculous. ### 3/5 — Adds and paywall *2026-04-06, version 3.22.0* Adds after every round and the paywall to upgrade to better balls makes this game not as enjoyable. So sick of all the games with adds. If you put adds in your game I will never spend a dime. If you don’t have adds I am likely to pay for some upgrades. Then again we should never pay for anything in a game, what do we really gain from spending our hard earned mobey? Nothing legitimate. ### 3/5 — TOO MANY ADS!! *2026-03-22, version 3.22.0* Best bowling game hands down, as usual! But damn there are so many ads!!! I can’t get through an event without ads immediately after every game, it’s so annoying! I’d even pay to have the ads removed. Anyone else?? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Advertisement app masquerading as a game *2026-08-25, version 3.22.0* Shameless. Ads you can't skip, all ads seem to be for worse games, they end with an app store "install app" window appearing ### 1/5 — Adds *2026-07-24, version 3.22.0* This app is “Add Central”. You’ll spend more time watching adds than actually playing. ### 1/5 — Really *2026-07-15, version 3.22.0* I know yall don’t read these reviews but here it goes I mean I hit strikes and the next frame I hit the pins like I did for the strike and no strike I mean I guess I have to bowl a perfect game just to win a tournament bc I bowl a game where I have strikes and spares but I come in 10th place I mean come on and another thing please I beg of you get rid of all the ads I mean after every single game that’s annoying nobody should have to pay to get rid of all the ads I mean a few ads is fine but not after every single game ### 1/5 — Ads after every single game *2026-06-04, version 3.22.0* When i first started playing this game i not once watched an ad for a very long time and now its every single game. Its absolutely ruined the game for me and likely other people. ### 1/5 — AI and the Oil Patterns *2026-04-29, version 3.22.0* Any event games especially the daily, are worthless to play more. Each and everytime in any of the events by the time you get to either the third, second to the last game, or the last game of each event, the AI becomes unbeatable, and the oil patterns get so slick your not able to control any of the three bowling balls that are offered in any event. But the AI using the worse ball still able to throw 11 or 12 strikes in those games. Get rid of the oil patterns if you're not going to make these event fair. You're making enough advertising money on this, and profit off this, because you haven't had an overhaul of any kind to this game, since you added those Elite events. That was what 8 or 9 years ago. There should be actual compliance audits each year on these software companies and their app games. But since there's no actual regulations to oversee the abuse in gameplay, and a limitations on how many ads can be seen based on game play, or time played to not have to view ads(that are 30 to 60min minimum), every minute(how long one game last). ### 1/5 — Awful Oil Pattern *2026-04-12, version 3.22.0* The Shark Oil Pattern sucks ### 1/5 — Good, but…. *2026-04-05, version 3.22.0* Ads make this game unplayable ### 1/5 — ads *2026-03-23, version 3.22.0* the game is almost unplayable with the amount of unskippable/playable ads you have to run through ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-03-20, version 3.22.0* Greedy CEOs pump ads into everything. Purchases only get rid of ads for 30 days. They want to suck every last bit of fun out of the game with the amount of ads they put. ### 1/5 — Awful ads and cheap misleading in game currency generation *2026-03-08, version 3.22.0* I can play two games then I gotta wait an hour before I can play two more is dumb ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — i like game *2026-08-17, version 3.22.0* it good ### 5/5 — Best Bowling Experience Ever *2026-07-30, version 3.22.0* The only downside to this game is that the iOS version hasn’t been updated in 9 months. That one fix would make my day ### 5/5 — Very, very good! *2026-07-23, version 3.22.0* Really fun game! Bowling has been my favourite sport for a very long time, and this app is just as good as bowling in real life. I have thrown many perfect games and there are very few adverts, if not none. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — PBA bowling challenge *2026-05-04, version 3.22.0* Update app please now it’s got a bit of an issue yes I’m on my data issue fix it now please ### 5/5 — Good but quick question *2026-04-12, version 3.22.0* For some reason, I’ve had this app on my iPad for a long time and recently I downloaded it on my iPhone and for some reason, it didn’t have all of my progress on my iPad either. Like, when I got it on my phone, it erased most of my progress on my iPad. Is this normal because this never really happened before. On my iPad I was around like level 36 I think, and when I downloaded the app on my phone, it made my progress go down to level 12 and I didn’t even delete it off my iPad. Is this normal or is this a problem? ### 5/5 — Controlled support *2026-04-09, version 3.22.0* Can yall please add controller support ### 5/5 — It is so boring 🥱 *2026-04-03, version 3.22.0* 1 star ### 5/5 — I like this, but one bug *2026-03-31, version 3.22.0* I liked this game since I was little, and I still like it now, but now there is a strange bug where some of audio doesn’t loop properly, please fix that and thank you ### 5/5 — Lost all my progress! *2026-03-27, version 3.22.0* This game has been amazing!! I’ve been playing it for years but this morning I work up and all my progress is gone!!! I don’t know how to fix it! I just don’t want to restart that all! ### 5/5 — PBA bowling challenge *2026-03-08, version 3.22.0* This game for me has literally been life saving!! It helped me quit smoking! Basically anytime I get a craving I just pull this game up and it gets me through it every time. This is the best bowling game I’ve ever played. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*