Comparison

Pull the Pin vs Illusion Bowling

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pull the Pin

A physics-based puzzle game where you must strategically remove pins to guide colored balls into a pipe. Solve increasingly complex levels by understanding gravity and color mechanics.

Highlights
  • Physics-based gameplay
  • Strategic pin removal
  • Color-spreading mechanics
  • Challenging levels
  • Satisfying graphics
Features
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In this game full of satisfying graphics and innovative levels, you can challenge yourself, your brain, and your friends! It’s you against physics and the tricky levels — WHO WILL WIN? All balls have to go into the pipe … can you remove the pins in the right order and make it happen? It should be simple: gravity pulls the balls down towards the pipe. But then pins are in the way! Can you help out and flip away the pins and get the balls to where they are supposed to be? But wait: there is another level of trickery! Sometimes some of the balls are colourless: before they go into the pipe, they need to touch a color ball, so the color spreads to them as well. So simple yet so tricky!

About

Illusion Bowling

Navigate a world of optical illusions to hit bowling pins. Manipulate perspective to create virtual pathways, bridges, and walls. Solve 66 unique levels by cleverly shifting your viewpoint.

Highlights
  • Optical illusion gameplay
  • Perspective manipulation
  • Physics-based puzzles
  • 66 challenging levels
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
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Illusion Bowling is all about rolling balls through a world of optical illusion. You have to hit a bowling pin with a ball but it is impossible in the normal world. Only by using new pathways that get created by optical illusions it becomes possible. Your tool for creating the optical illusion pathways is merely changing the view perspective. If two distant platforms look from a certain view angle as if they touch each other then the ball can roll over from one platform to the other, like over a virtual bridge. This way you can create virtual bridges, virtual walls or shift the ball sideways by scratching one platform over another. • 66 levels • No advertisements • No In-App Purchases. All content is unlocked.

Screenshots

Pull the Pin4 screens
Illusion Bowling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Illusion Bowling at 73% against Pull the Pin's 14%. Illusion Bowling also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). Pull the Pin's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and ratings volume (250K vs 114). On device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pull the Pin is free to download; Illusion Bowling costs $3.99 up front. Pull the Pin sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Illusion Bowling asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Illusion Bowling holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pull the Pin has 250K ratings behind it against 114, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Pull the Pin's written reviews are positive against 73% of Illusion Bowling's.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Pull the Pin versus Illusion Bowling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPull the PinIllusion Bowling
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.4 (250K ratings)4.8 (114 ratings) — better
Positive reviews14.4% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings250K — better114
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#2 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size417 MB76 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPopcore GmbHDaniel Koenig-Meier

Customer experience

Pull the Pin

All ratings250,208 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews1,917 reviews
Positive14.4%
Neutral13.5%
Negative72.1%

Illusion Bowling

All ratings114 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative26.7%

Bugs and requests

Pull the Pin

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Puzzle pieces not registering as collected
  • Levels freezing or failing without player input
  • Ads failing to load and preventing progress

Requested features

3 requests
  • More challenging and varied puzzle levels
  • Ability to spend earned coins on meaningful upgrades
  • Option to disable ads for a one-time fee

Illusion Bowling

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Pull the Pin

One-time14
  • Bunch of cash$0.99
  • Skip Tickets$1.99
  • Remove Ads$7.99
Show 11 more
  • Get All Sumer Event Rewards$7.99
  • Easter Offer2 variants$9.99
  • Summer Event$9.99
  • Back to School Offer$9.99
  • Halloween Offer$9.99
  • Halloween Event Offer$9.99
  • Thanksgiving Offer$9.99
  • Christmas Offer$9.99
  • Winter Event$9.99
  • Back to School$9.99
  • Suitcase of Cash$59.99
None

Illusion Bowling

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pull the Pin free?
Pull the Pin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Illusion Bowling free?
Illusion Bowling costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pull the Pin or Illusion Bowling?
Illusion Bowling is rated higher. Pull the Pin averages 4.4 out of 5 from 250K ratings, while Illusion Bowling averages 4.8 from 114 ratings.
Do Pull the Pin or Illusion Bowling have ads?
Pull the Pin shows ads; Illusion Bowling does not.

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