Doodle Bowling Reviews

I've been playing this game for somewhere around 4 years. This last update brought a big and very welcomed improvement to the physics of the game. The additional lanes are also a pleasant addition. The change to the "star" system to purchase additional lanes is a neutral change for me.

Found bugs: If you hit "play again" before all the stars collect at the end of the game they don't get counted and "get stuck" above the frame, uncollected. Next, if you throw a low speed roll the ball will sometimes bounce back up the lane. The lane doesn't time out and reset if this happens and you're stuck, having to restart the game. Next, on some lanes the ball may bounce off into the gutter after a strike. Then this happens it scores a strike but you do not get the extra star for a strike. Finally, while the physics are vastly improved, you still sometime have an occurrence where a pin begins to tip over but the frame resets for the second shot and the pin is reset, not counted on the first shot. No biggie

All in all still my favorite game app and the update was a big improvement.

The latest update gives Doodle Bowling a nice new UI and quite a few new lanes to purchase.

Although ads were introduced, it shouldn't be a big deal since you can easily remove them with a one time IAP. Even without that the ads are not too intrusive.

They have also included a watch video to earn 30 pts feature. Although I'm not thrilled with this, you'll still gain much more points from your average game so it's not a progress-breaker.

UPDATE: Now DoodleBowling has stupid ads that repeatedly force-open up Safari with some "You're today's lucky winner!!!" crap. Every time I go back to DoodleBowling it takes me right back to the spam link in Safari. I'll delete DoodleBowling before you force me to pay to get rid of this crap.

I've had DoodleBowling for years; in fact, it's the very first app I ever purchased. Now the update brought stupid annoying pop-up video ads, and you want me to pay $3.99 to get rid of them. No, thank you. I would have paid to receive the updated features, but don't force your long-time users to pay to get rid of a sudden onslaught of ads.

I’ve played this for years. Since my first smart phone. I’m not one to usually complain about free games... however, it is frustrating to unlock a bunch of themes, just to come back to the game later and have them all be locked again. I can deal with the occasional untimely ad in the middle of rolling the ball, but to spend time to watch ads, and to spend time to play the game, to unlock things... it’s super frustrating for those things to glitch out and become locked again.

The physics overhaul is a welcome surprise.

The star system for purchasing different alleys is cool.

Downside is not being able to "preview" a new alley before purchase. You have no idea what you get before you spend your stars.

Hello I've had this for a long time. When I was looking for a bowling game to play this was the only one I found that was easier to play. Using my finger. To roll the ball Mimicking a real bowling experience. I was wondering, if we’re going to get a full screen ad? Why is there an ad at the top of the game? This is overkill on the ads.

I used to like this game until an add for Animation Showdown played and showed Peter Griffin walk into a room and then his wife said “God what the h€ll are you wearing!”. To make things worse my mom was in the car and was disturbed by the inappropriate ad that had just played without my consent. I didn’t even choose to watch an ad to get 30 stars.

You should think twice before getting sponsored willy-nilly.

Since this game is rated 4+ I expect the ads not to include swear words. I am disappointed and expect to have this game to have age-appropriate ads. 🤮👎

I expect appropriate ads to play from now on!

Finally! I've had this game since like 2009 on an iPod touch.

I now have an iPhone 7 and am so thrilled to see the developer still keeping it up to date. The old version was pretty sluggish and the physics were not the best.

This new version is fantastic. It's still challenging to get a strike but isn't that the point? Now when I miss a strike, I can see the path the ball took whereas before it looked like a strike roll but not all the pins would fall.

I am pleased and excited to play this game again.

I love this game and I always have. There may be a lot of ads but just turn off your WiFi and data and the game runs fine without any interruptions.

This game is one of less than a handful of games that has maintained playability throughout almost all of smartphone history. I salute you.

This game is very fun to play daily. Knowing I will be playing it every evening gives me something to look foreword too. Great game, lots of fun, each game is better than the last one.....

Only wish would be for more options to be available to earn---different balls, pins, etc.

Throw a perfect ball and all fall but one and it’s leaning but doesn’t fall. That’s BS !! Been 1 pin short of a perfect game many many times because of this issue. And how do you stop the hundreds of commercials between each game or when you hit the home button?

The game has started crashing occasionally and when it does, I lose all my collected points.

Love this game!

Well, I had never really had any issues with this game, but I recently lost a lot of stars that took a while to earn, all because the game crashed and erased my progress. So, I’m pretty freaking annoyed right now.

Very visually appealing. I love how the pins poof into chalk dust or ink blots. I love how the ball makes a hole in the paper. Addicting. Fast paced, Easy to play, but not easy to score (my avg is a little better than real life). I love all of the themes, can't decide which is my favorite. I just play a game of each when I play. I like the stats. Only thing that needs improvement is the sound. It would be interesting if the sounds were different for each theme. Could use more themes too. Also would like Twitter integration if you're gonna have Facebook. I don't do facebook. Would like to see general global scores too. And to play against an opponent. Ha, it's so good you don't notice right away it's only a one player game! Oh yeah. And it's DEFINITELY worth getting the paid version, even though the ads aren't much of a bother!

The new video ads that started popping up indiscriminately are not acceptable and I stopped playing the game today! Today’s ad opened w a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. I often play this game when I can’t sleep and the unexpected screaming awakens my wife and even startles ME! Stop w these tasteless, annoying ads.

I really love this game. But there’s one thing that needs to be fixed, WHENEVER I try to bowl it always has an ad, so I think it’s annoying. It really needs to be fixed. That’s why I only gave it 3 stars

Many of the strikes I get nowadays are totally unrealistic and some just plain silly. I think you have taken the challenge away. I much prefer the old version. 😟

Ad glitch makes it impossible for gameplay.
After every shot, which is ruined anyway, because of the slowness, the ads take me out of the game and onto DoodleBowling Store.
Can't even play. And if I could, I wouldn't really like it either.