Comparison

Bowling Bowling vs VirtuaBowl

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

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About

Bowling Bowling

Experience realistic 3D bowling with intuitive controls and exciting online multiplayer matches. Challenge friends or play solo with customizable balls and authentic physics.

Highlights
  • Realistic 3D bowling physics
  • Online multiplayer matches
  • Quick Match matchmaking
  • Private games with friends
  • Solo bowling mode
  • Swipe and tilt controls
  • Customizable ball colors
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Bowling Bowling brings the fun of bowling to your iPhone and iPad with intuitive controls, realistic ball and pin physics, and exciting online multiplayer matches. PLAY ONLINE WITH FRIENDS Challenge other players in real-time bowling matches. Use Quick Match to find an opponent, or create a Private Game and invite a friend to join. TWO WAYS TO BOWL • Swipe Control — Swipe to roll the ball and curve your throw to add hook. • Tilt Hook Control — Tilt your device after releasing the ball to control its hook. REALISTIC BOWLING EXPERIENCE Enjoy responsive ball movement, realistic pin collisions, and a full 10-frame bowling game with automatic scoring. GAME FEATURES • Solo bowling mode • Real-time online multiplayer • Quick Match matchmaking • Private games with friend invitations • Play against the computer when no online opponent is available • Swipe and tilt bowling controls • Realistic bowling physics • Customizable bowling ball colors • Sound effects, background music, and haptic feedback • Game Center integration Whether you're practicing alone or competing with friends, Strike Lane Bowling brings the excitement of the bowling alley to your fingertips. Ready to bowl? Aim, roll, and strike!

About

VirtuaBowl

Features
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VirtuaBowl is a full 3D tenpin bowling game that supports touch, mouse, keyboard and gamepad inputs. Real bowling, not a tap-timing minigame. Line up your stance, pick your angle, curl the ball and read the break as it hooks into the pocket. Every throw runs through real pin physics, so strikes, ringing ten-pins and ugly splits all come from where you actually put the ball — not from a hidden timing bar. Play with anyone, on anything Up to 8 players in one game — pass a single device around the couch, or bowl together online Host a room and let friends join from your list, or join theirs Voice chat built in, with per-player volume and push-to-talk, so a remote game sounds like a lane next to you No account needed to play solo Nine lanes, each with its own atmosphere Start on Classic Alley, then bowl your way through Back Alley (cobblestones, brick and gaslight), Sunset Alley (neon downtown at night), Campfire Grove, Riviera Lanes (1962, all vinyl and plaster) and Lunar. Premium players also get Cosmic Lanes (1985, blacklight and carpet), Abyssal Reef and Tiki Cove. Every lane is its own place rather than a reskin: its own palette, lighting and fog, and in several cases its own pin set and its own music. Lanes unlock as you play — at 3, 10, 25, 40 and 60 games — so there is always one more to bowl for. Controls that suit whatever is in your hands Touch — drag to place the ball, flick forward to throw, bend the path to hook Mouse + keyboard — aim with the mouse, hold to charge, drag to curve, Q/E to spin Gamepad — sticks to line up, trigger to throw, bumpers to hook, one button to change camera Free to play, one honest upgrade VirtuaBowl is free and supported by advertising. A single premium purchase removes advertising and unlocks all premium content at once — there is no piecemeal buying and nothing is sold twice. Three of the nine lanes are premium; the other six are free or earned by playing, and no lane is mechanically better than a free one.

Screenshots

Bowling Bowling4 screens
VirtuaBowl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bowling Bowling at none against VirtuaBowl's 1. Bowling Bowling also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. VirtuaBowl sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bowling Bowling asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Bowling Bowling versus VirtuaBowl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBowling BowlingVirtuaBowl
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYuwei LinBrandon Stecklein

In-app purchases

None

Bowling Bowling

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

VirtuaBowl

One-time1
  • VirtuaBowl Premium$1.99

Questions

Is Bowling Bowling free?
Bowling Bowling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is VirtuaBowl free?
VirtuaBowl is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bowling Bowling or VirtuaBowl have ads?
Both Bowling Bowling and VirtuaBowl show ads.

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