Comparison

Rolling Around 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

Rolling Around

Test your precision by guiding a ball along a dotted path, aiming to match it perfectly. Earn rewards for high scores and unlock special items. Navigate challenging obstacles and compete with friends.

Highlights
  • 1600 challenging levels
  • Earn special balls with perfect scores
  • Progressively difficult levels
  • iMessage integration for multiplayer
  • Obstacle navigation (magnets, black holes)
  • Star and diamond rewards system
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Test your skill to push a ball along the dotted path. Get rated for the percent of the path you can match. * Challenge yourself with 1600 levels * Earn special balls with perfect scores * Levels get progressively more difficult HOW TO PLAY: Just hold your finger next to the ball and lightly touch the ball to move it in the direction away from your finger. Pretend you are pushing a marble on a table and push it from the side. Select a light or heavy ball by clicking on the Kilogram weight icon. Get scored on how close your path matches the target dotted line. Earn up to three stars per level. Get a 100% match and earn a diamond. Use diamonds in the store to get special balls and more. Be careful of objects in your path. Your ball can bounce off other objects, roll off hills, get repulsed by magnets, or get lost in a black hole. iMessage: Rolling Around now supports iMessage play between iOS devices Challenge your friends and family to play Rolling Around in iMessage text messages. Add Rolling Around to your Messages app drawer using the (...) More button, and then click to start your first game. Even if your friend does not have Rolling Around yet, they'll be prompted to download it easily. Click Play to send a Rolling Around challenge to your friend. They get the first turn to match the path of a Rolling Around level. When they complete, the message will send back to you and you'll get your turn to play the same level. Then find out who can match the path better and you'll see each player's score. If you need a rematch click to play again. After the first game per friend each day, use your diamonds or watch a short video to play again. Earn more diamonds playing the full game while you wait. Level up in the full game to create challenging levels to play your friends during your iMessage games. Each time you challenge your friends it will pick a random level near the level you're playing in the full game. If you're at level 1000 but your friends are only at level 100, think how shocked they'll be that you're on such a difficult level. HELP: https://www.BrilliancePartners.com/help.html EMAIL: support@brilliancepartners.com PRIVACY: https://www.brilliancepartners.com/privacy.html

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

Rolling Around4 screens
Illusion Bowling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Rolling Around at Free against Illusion Bowling's $3.99. Rolling Around also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Illusion Bowling's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Rolling Around is free to download; Illusion Bowling costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Illusion Bowling holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Illusion Bowling has 236 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Rolling Around's written reviews are positive against 73% of Illusion Bowling's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Rolling Around versus Illusion Bowling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRolling AroundIllusion Bowling
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.3 (6 ratings)4.7 (236 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better73.3% of reviews
Number of ratings6236 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#3 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian GiedtDaniel Koenig-Meier

Customer experience

Rolling Around

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Illusion Bowling

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

In-app purchases

None

Rolling Around

No in-app purchases

None

Illusion Bowling

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rolling Around free?
Rolling Around is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Illusion Bowling free?
Illusion Bowling costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rolling Around or Illusion Bowling?
Illusion Bowling is rated higher. Rolling Around averages 4.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Illusion Bowling averages 4.7 from 236 ratings.
Do Rolling Around or Illusion Bowling have ads?
Rolling Around shows ads; Illusion Bowling does not.

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