Cave Bowling vs Wumpus Cave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cave Bowling
Experience a prehistoric twist on bowling! Aim your ball through rocky landscapes, avoiding obstacles and ancient creatures to strike the pins and collect bones. Discover multiple solutions for each of the 80 levels.
- 80 prehistoric stages
- Auto-saving best solutions
- Fine-adjustable controls
- 3-star ranking system
- Multiple solutions per level
- Collectors Icon #25
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Striiiiike! Warp back in time and join our forefathers in an exciting game of CAVE BOWLING! Set aim and send the bowling ball flying through rocky landscapes filled with crazy obstacles and prehistoric animals. Can you strike the pins and collect all bones without knocking down the cheerful audience? If you love our other physics-based ball game, Cat Physics, chances are you'll have a blast with Cave Bowling too! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - "Donut Games rolls another strike" -- TouchArcade - "Game of the day" -- MacWorld IDG.se - "New & Noteworthy" -- Apple, Jan 2011 - "Cave Bowling features original design, mechanics and challenges, something many iPhone games lack these days." -- Gamezebo - "We've basically been at the point where it's safe to just blindly download anything Donut Games releases, and I'm glad to say Cave Bowling continues that tradition." -- TouchArcade * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * GAME FEATURES: - 80 prehistoric stages - Auto-saving feature that records your best solution to each level - Fine-adjustable controls - Donut Games' famous 3-star ranking system - Multiple solutions for each level: Increased replay value - Donut Games' Collectors Icon #25 - And much more... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Enjoy another Donut Games release!
Wumpus Cave
Navigate a dark maze filled with treasures, keys, and lurking dangers. This game offers a modern take on a classic text-based adventure, featuring updated controls, graphics, and sound effects.
- Modernized controls
- Graphics and sound effects
- Varied cave layouts
- Treasure and key collection
- Avoid bottomless pits
- Encounter multiple wumpus
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Inspired by a 1970's text-based creation, Wumpus Cave adds iPhone controls, graphics, sound effects, treasures, and varies the cave from game to game. Find your way through the pitch-dark maze of twisty passages to the treasure, the key, and back out again, while avoiding bottomless pits and letting your grimble deal with the multiple wumpus lurking in the cave. English only. Free. No ads. No wifi required. No tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Wumpus Cave at Free against Cave Bowling's $0.99. Wumpus Cave also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 13 months). Cave Bowling's advantage is ratings volume (108 vs 6) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Wumpus Cave is free to download; Cave Bowling costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Cave Bowling against 4.8 for Wumpus Cave. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cave Bowling has 108 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Cave Bowling's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wumpus Cave's.
Cave Bowling ships an update every 13 months, Wumpus Cave every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cave Bowling | Wumpus Cave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (108 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Donut Games | Jeffrey Scott Watters |
Customer experience
Cave Bowling
Wumpus Cave
Bugs and requests
Cave Bowling
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes or crashes on certain levels
- Audio cuts out or glitches during gameplay
- Inconsistent scoring and star ratings
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content updates
- Ability to skip difficult levels
- Option to mute or customize sound effects
- Leaderboards and achievements
Wumpus Cave
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cave Bowling
No in-app purchases
Wumpus Cave
No in-app purchases
Questions
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