PBA Reviews

🤬Player disadvantage when it comes to any of the tournaments(weekend tournament at times, but the zodiac, surprise challenge, winter surprise, or any of the special tournaments. I always love the same developers response to me by saying, sometimes you have to bowl a 300. Yeah I do, but when it’s early in these tournaments, and the bot is bowling a 109, while throwing them in the gutter. But when you get to the last one, two or three games left on say the weekends 16 games. Your ball is a glitch waiting to happen, as the bot rolls a perfect game, or gets a 289 or 299. Or how about my last glitch to the second to the last game of this weekend’s challenge, I’m up by 10 in the 9th with a strike in the 9th, in the 10th, I get a strike, and than the spare. The bot has a spare in the 9th, but gets two strikes, and change. But I lose by 20?? Thats a 30 point verse??? How does that happen??? Do all the glitching you want. This game is free, and I don’t pay a cent for anything. The ads are easy to avoid, without playing them. That’s how developers make that extra little money, by glitches. So sorry to hear your response bullsh…!!

Been playing everyday for last six months. You need to to keep your spin streak alive or else need to pony up points to revive it. No biggie there. But a big issue I see is as move up in levels, the cost of playing a game grows too. So if you have 400 energy points showing it costs 250 points to play. If you have 1000 points if cost 800 points to play. So you never can play two games in a row without using pins to buy more energy. And I would never ever use real money to buy energy points . There is also times when the game slow and unresponsive. Not sure if it's my iPad, but many times the game will freeze up during a roll and before you know it the ball rolls not how you threw it. I have had many perfect games ruined by this lockup. You get into a rhythm on how you throw the ball and these annoying delay breaks that. On the plus side when the game is working as it should it's fun to play. Many, almost too many ball choices(of course very pricey to get the better balls). But controls are nice. Oil patterns do affect ball play as you move through the tourneys. Some special events require you be at a crazy high level to even be able to launch. I've been playing every day for six months and at level 33. Some balls and events require you to be at levels 75 ad above. Of course you can play real moneyto progress faster, but you know what they say about a fool and his money.

The bowling is fine but there’s a HUGE problem with PBA. An ad for some totally unrelated game will take over your screen, and
Give you NO option to get back to bowling. You can’t wait it out, you can’t leave and come back, the unrelated game ad just stays there, taking over from the bowling game completely, with your only option to “GET” it. And even if you do GET the unrelated game, it STILL won’t return you to bowling. I even uninstalled this app Bowling, then downloaded it again, and the same unrelated ad came back! I got about 5 or 6 fun bowling lines out of this before I realized PBA was going to keep on actively preventing me from playing, and deleted it for good. I guarantee all those good reviews came in BEFORE they put this in PBA because, yes, the actual bowling is fun, but in its present state, you won’t be bowling for long before some match 3 or spaceship game that you don’t want takes over your device. Someone needs to tell the this app about this—they would be appalled that the license they granted to this developer is being used to swindle and abuse its customers.

I really enjoy the gameplay but the ads are out of control. You have to watch a 30 second ad after EVERY. SINGLE. GAME. Also, there is an “energy” mechanic that means you can only play 1-2 games before you have to either watch more ads or spend real money to “recharge.” I understand having to pay for the premium balls and all that, but can’t I just play with the basic ball and slowly grind towards better rewards without having to constantly watch the same ads over and over? Making me watch ads just to play the basic game with a basic ball is gross. There’s not even an option to just pay $10 or something to make the ads go away. I’d probably do that if I could. As it is I can’t even take it anymore and will be deleting PBA . If I have to watch that video of a dude holding a baby and telling me to try this new game where I can make REAL MONEY one more time, my phone is going through a window. Such a bummer because the game is good, but the ads are unbearable.

I downloaded the game because of the overall star rating but it didn’t live up to the hype. As a mindless time waster the game is fine but other than that it’s boring AF, l played several times and every time I left PBA and came back none of my progress had been saved; I earned a 300 ring for a perfect game to go in my trophy case and when I came back to play again later on it had vanished and all of my tournament progress was gone, this happened every single time I played so it wasn’t a fluke. Basically if you want to play for a few minutes and lose your progress and have to start back at zero this is the game for you; however if you are looking for a game that is more challenging and will save your progress so you can pick up where you left off and continue up the ranks to the this app this is not your best option. So download something better and whatever you do don’t spend any actual money on this one.

I used to really enjoy playing this game. I was able to bowl in the high 250s, even up to 270 and 280. I was really enjoy participating in the this app tournaments. But then it seems like the further along you advance, The bowling balls seem to lose their effectiveness. I went ahead and purchased several types of bowling balls and lanes, practicing daily in the hopes I would improve. But it seems like with this game, it will only let you improve about so much and then you just let you lose more and more. Even if I throw the ball perfectly and hit the pocket, there are a lot of splits. Sometimes the background noise is really annoying. For instance the sound effects with lanes like bowl-o-Rama have someone constantly YELLING words that sound like “ab it oo ee” and “yippee” during a looped 10 second Span that repeats over and over during gameplay. I wish there was a way to turn that off.

I spent a lot of money on this game and see now it is just another pay to win scam, where they expect you to buy newer and supposedly better bowling balls and equipment in order to make you think you’ll do better in tournaments. I was dumb enough to fall for it. It was fun while it lasted but I guess all good things must come to an end. Developers don’t bother responding because nothing you say or do is going to make me come back.

I gotta say this is one of my favorite games to play. You ask, then why the 2 stars? Well that’s just means that the service and losing purchases and money. Giving out free information when u hate to do it because of all the calls from companies I’ll receive but then only 10% of the time honoring their debt to our survey taking and other “free ways” to earn pins. Which as most of u know all these games have that high form of currency so if you ask me the two stars were a gift because of how disrespectful and dishonorable their word is they shouldn’t have even been around after that but I truly enjoy playing the game and if u want me to pay or jump hoops for ur product that is officially the biggest waste of time and money then this app BOWLING YOU NEED TO HONOR UR GOOD NAME AND PAY ME THE PINS THAT IM FIGHTING AO HARD FOR. But let this be a promise!..... if I don’t see my large amount of pins on my counter under my account in the next 24 hours I will, in a timely fashion delete and spread the social media word through all the social networks about you guys and well.... u get it by now don’t you? Lol 😒😡🤬🤬🤬

So the game is pretty fun, but the glitches and never failing pins get really freakin annoying when you are in the later tournaments that are excessively long and require a ridiculous amount of energy to play. I get that they are selling stuff, but when you are in a tournament that last 5+ rounds and you can only get a couple spares before you get ranked ridiculously low and can not recover, but you have to wait 2+ hours to play the next round. And pins pass through others without hitting them or inexplicably rock to the point they couldn’t possibly stay up, but do anyway ruining your whole tournament, really upset me when I have to spend so much time to play each round (because I ain’t spending that kind of money to play an app). Sometimes my 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place finish would wipeout and force me to play it over.
I hate the qualifiers with a passion... especially on the badger lane, where all opponents are insanely better then any other tournament (why?).

Still a good app but VERY frustrating when ads tie up the game and you have to shutdown your iPad and reboot in order to continue playing. Such a waste of the player’s time. PBA still has the problem with some of the daily spins. Emails have not been answered. It is a shame because it is a very good game which they obviously put a lot of work into. Since PBA is a couple of years old now, they probably want to put minimal resources into it now.

This is a very good and realistic app. Not perfect, but very good as long as you don’t mind investing some dollars into better bowling balls and energy. I think you will get frustrated waiting for the natural course of events to take place. The costs are reasonable but I think you should be prepared to spend some money. One thing that sticks in my craw is the number of times pins just spin around as well as spin around and never go any place. The natural odds are just not possible to calculate. Pins move, even if they do not help you. They travel, sometimes they hit other pins, sometimes they don’t. But overall it is a very good app that gives much enjoyment and brings back memories for many of us.

Now I’m missing my cookie jam and cookie blast rewards. Back down to 3 stars. It instantly gives small rewards. I just got 10pts idk why I still have not gotten my rewards for the cookie games.

I like this bowling game quite a bit but since the rewards don’t show up the rating drops greatly. Spider solitaire and castle crush and tiki solitaire are all games loaded and played and never received pins. Received my missing points one day after posting this review so I increased the star to 4. If I could it would probably be 4.5. The game gets hard pretty fast. Expect to get stuck about 200 unless you are really consistent. You must learn to use the tilt curve feature if you are not consistent. I am a new player and it looks like I will need to upgrade balls to become a pro. There are tons of different balls with different powers and plenty of alleys you can purchase. I have not played league but the a multiplayer feature should be fun. I loved wii bowling and this is a decent replacement although if I could stand and bowl like wii it would be amazing...but that would be a different game I guess.

I really liked this game a lot at first. I had a different bowling app that was ok, but this one was way better in comparison. And then the glitches started. A few times now I’ve been in the second game of a qualifier round, but needed to wait for more energy to move on. Exit PBA to wait and when I come back, I have to start all over again. I’ve also won the championship east final 5 times now and instead of giving me my trophy and keeping my star, it keeps resetting me back to having to do the qualifier all over again. It’s a good thing I wait to play a game for a while before I consider spending money because I will not spend a dime on anything that consistently glitches and “forgets” my progress.

*Edit- I did email the developer and just got a generic “we’re working on it” response though judging off the reviews on here this has been an issue for quite a long time.

I really like this game. It is realistic and isn’t laggy for me. I will say that the game was better a year ago. All the devs care about now is money. If you try to watch videos for free pins, it says there are no ads available but 10 seconds later shows you an ad that doesn’t give you anything. A year ago the free pins offers like taking a survey worked but now after you spend 15 mins completing a survey for 100 pins, once you finish it or enter your info it never gives you your pins. I would only play this game if you have had it before because if you get it without having played it before everything will be too expensive for the game to be enjoyable. At least if you have had it for a while you might have bought some things a year ago when they were cheaper than they are now.

I hadn’t had any issues much at all with the game. Other than it will lock up and I have to close it out. Now when it happens and you have to restart it, I preferred it starting the match over because usually when it would start acting up, it would end up with me getting a bad frame because it would freeze so I couldn’t finish the frame. Now when it restarts, you have to keep whatever you had when it would mess up so much. So in turn, I’m losing events and regular matches because I can’t start them over again when it would glitches like we used to be able to fix. Now we are just out our games and it’s causing me to lose events already. Also my only other issue would be that usually events get harder to beat the further you advance, but now I’ve played the same event twice and both times the “computer” got 2 300 games in a row and knocked me out of the event. It’s so frustrating. When it’s towards the end, it’s understandable but when it’s the 2nd or 3rd match and they are getting 300s continuously, it’s very frustrating. They just updated recently and it made it worse for these reasons. Overall it’s still PBA I play the most. I have played less since they “fixed” stuff a couple weeks ago, but it only benefits the computer and not us as players. Their game glitches and we are stuck with bad scores and lose events. That makes us pay to play again. I don’t think that is starting to ruin it for me. But I hope they will change it back.

I’ve spent a ten of hours over the years playing this game and I have to say, it’s pretty darn fun. With any gaming app there are going to be hiccups and glitches and so forth... PBA is no different. You can level up and earn enough and get by with winning games, tournaments, and earning enough pins to buy things as you go, but for the avid gamer, you might want to prepare to spend some money. Concrete Software has the right to charge whatever they want, but man, they do charge an arm and a leg for pins (game currency) in this game. I’ve spent some money here and there, but I just can’t justify spending 20, 50, or 100 dollars just to buy some premium bowling balls. I’m at level 576 and I’m still hundreds of levels away from getting the best balls in the game (that’s with me playing nearly 4-5 times per week for almost 10 years). But again, it’s pretty darn fun and I’m sure it’ll keep me coming back for years to come.

The control’s smooth and the graphics is beautiful, along with extremely fun and challenging A.I. pros of the PGA! Multiplayer is extremely fun and smooth too. This game truly is realistic and sounds of the ball rolling and hitting the pins is amazing! A top 10/10 game rating for sure. The only thing I seen honestly that is a bad is the grind on how you have to win tickets to get more better bowling balls. You get a small amount of experience points and talks along time to level up. I had to pay with real money to get a ball that randomly gives you gold pins exp or tickets. Some bowling balls are way better but in the 50+ level range, and require 7,500 gold pins when you normally win just 1 golden pin at random like my bowling ball and that’s if you get one. So just saying you can play and win rewards or pay and gain the bowling balls. But other then that you can a lot of rewards through tournaments and multiplayer mainly tickets. It’s my honest option I wish we didn’t have to seriously pay for gold pins to unlock the better bowling balls that reward tickets exp and gold pins each throw or strike, but that’s how it is. Still a fun game if you save up money. Experience points is 100 each throw when you get a mid range ball like level 20. But hey it still a very fun game just a major grind to get anywhere in it.

I find your game fun, since I love bowling, however it seems lately I run into the problem of having no energy during a tournament, etc. I find this very irritating since you advertise the game as FREE! Also, if FREE, why do I have to BUY extra energy to use your game? Guess I will discontinue playing your game and find another that lives up to its ads of being FREE!

I totally agree with above critique—and additionally I have tracked ball’s path and you really need to look at your program, i.e., same line to pins will give me a variety of pins left standing vs a strike. It’s very frustrating and mind boggling; game at beginning was great, but has steadily gotten frustrating and lacking the will to choose your game over others.

Initially this game is fun but obnoxious. You get an ad between every game and you run out of energy fast. You can literally play one match at the higher tournaments and be out of energy and have to wait two hours to play the next.

However there are special balls that restore energy. Of course to get them for free requires hours of grinding, but I simply bought a special offer for $5 to get one and now I can play about as much as I want. Also that purchase seemed to turn off ads as I haven’t had one popup since. I didn’t see this feature documented anywhere but that’s what happened.

It’s definitely worth a few bucks to get full enjoyment out of the game. It has a nice amount of variety with the oiled lanes and tournaments.

Game was fine for months but then starting last Friday the game would not open at all. Finally a few days later when it still would not open, I deleted PBA and re downloaded it. Well it starts up fine now but I literally lost everything. I put money and lots of time to unlock pretty much every ball and every single level. Have tons of gold pins. I even logged in through Facebook and somehow it doesn’t remember my profile and won’t restore any purchases. Stay away from this game! I’ve tried to contact the game developer twice and have heard nothing at all. Very disappointed *** Update*** they fixed the issue and most everything came back to me. Except for a few bowling balls I had purchased before. Not too worried about that. Recovered mostly everything so gave 5 stars

There are many venues to keep you interested. For example, during October, there are Cemetery Lanes. There is a daily challenge, weekend challenge and other challenges to earn gold pins and money to buy bowling balls. There is a bonus section that has High Rollers and a slot machine spins. A Game of Thrones bonus section along with many others. Just fun and creative. It’s worth it, in my opinion, to pay to remove the ads. If you really like the game, invest in the Ultimate ball above all other balls as your energy charges faster as do the split ball and bomb (strike) ball. It’s very realistic and you can tilt your phone to fix a bad throw most of the time. There are trophies and a stats section. In addition to the levels in each venue, there are challenges where you can earn additional prizes. Most bowling balls have one or more special effects.

Great game to play with fantastic graphics. Only complaints are that, no matter how many balls I own, I almost always have to buy a new one for the weekend and other challenges. The other issue is when you get to that one game, usually the 7th game or so in a 9 game challenge, that the computer all of a sudden goes from averaging in the mid 100’s to bowling a couple of 300 games in a row and at the same time I make adjustments and hit pocket strikes that constantly leave the 7 or 10 pin. It makes for too much of a swing between myself and the computer. One suggestion would be to give more than two losses in a challenge when the challenge has more games, such as the challenges with 15 or so games.