Illusion Bowling vs Drawcracy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Optical illusion gameplay
- Perspective manipulation
- Physics-based puzzles
- 66 challenging levels
- No ads or in-app purchases
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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.
Drawcracy
A darkly humorous puzzle game where you manipulate electoral maps to ensure your party wins more seats than deserved. Learn the art of gerrymandering by drawing districts, packing opponents, and avoiding court scrutiny.
- Draw electoral districts
- Manipulate precinct borders
- Pack and crack opponent votes
- Avoid court scrutiny
- 12-map campaign mode
- Endless mode with ranks
- Unlockable tactics
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You draw the districts. You decide who wins. Drawcracy is a darkly funny puzzle about gerrymandering — the real-world art of drawing electoral maps to rig who wins before a single vote is counted. Here, a fair map is a failure. The goal is to carve the districts so your side takes more seats than its share of the vote could ever deserve — and to do it without the courts noticing. The catch: the mechanic IS the abuse it's teaching. By the end you won't just know what gerrymandering is — you'll know how it's done, because you'll have done it. HOW IT PLAYS • Read the map — blue and red precincts, a target number of seats, and a vote share that says you shouldn't hit it. • Draw the lines — drag across precincts to carve contiguous districts. Pack your opponents into one throwaway seat, crack them across many, bend the borders. • Win ugly — claim a majority you never earned. • Don't get caught — a live scrutiny meter tracks how brazen your map is. Cross the line and the courts throw it out. WHAT'S INSIDE • A 12-map campaign that escalates from a quiet favour to an outright heist, each ending in a plain-spoken lesson on the real tactic you just pulled. • Endless mode — infinite, freshly generated maps and a climbing Operative Rank that never resets. • Game Center achievements and leaderboards. • A tactics tree of real-world manoeuvres to unlock and equip. THE DEAL • One price. No in-app purchases. No ads. No tracking. No accounts. Plays fully offline. Note: Drawcracy is satire. Its factions are abstract Blue and Red — no real parties, candidates, or people are depicted.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Illusion Bowling at 242 against Drawcracy's 2. Illusion Bowling also leads on chart position (#3 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Drawcracy's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($0.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and 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
Illusion Bowling costs $3.99 and Drawcracy $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Drawcracy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Illusion Bowling has 242 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Illusion Bowling | Drawcracy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (242 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 242 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Koenig-Meier | GravityFish, LLC |
Customer experience
Illusion Bowling
Drawcracy
In-app purchases
Illusion Bowling
No in-app purchases
Drawcracy
No in-app purchases









