Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 02:43 pm
Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling Lite – Sports Game Review
Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling Lite is a Sports/Family/Sports game from Skunk Studios, Inc., first launched in 3rd September 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 331+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling Lite Stand Out
Do you have the Golden touch?
Play Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling and rack up those golden pins! If you're looking for a bowling game that will exceed your expectations, THIS is the bowling game to play!
GUTTERBALL BOWLING HIGHLIGHTS:
A true bowling game with awesome graphics and amazing pin physics.
Clean & crisp throwing action lets you spin your bowling ball like a pro.
Golden Pins are earned for bowling well. Use them to unlock new alleys, bowling balls, 3 unique power ups, and customizable bowling balls.
Awesome Power Ups, including Da BOMB, The SPLITTER, and the INFLATOR.
Make your own bowling ball using built in textures and overlays. Increase the Speed and Spin! Change the color. Add your own photos. Make it shiny or dull. Make it reflective. Add Particle Effects. Attach one of 24 unique bling items.
FEATURES:
• Incredible bowling alleys and fantastic bowling balls
House, Style and Effect bowling balls to unlock, each more awesome than the last.
• Customizable bowling balls. Add photos or choose from built in art. Apply a second layer with decals.
• Bowlers who spin the ball like a pro can earn up to 3x multiplier on their Golden Pins
• Game Center enabled with 8 Leaderboards and 40 bowling achievements
INCLUDED IN THE FREE VERSION:
• 1 Free Lane – Retro!
• 7 Bowling Alleys to unlock – Vegas, Mineshaft, Barnyard, Cosmic, Lotus Lane, Ice Dragon, and Jungle
• Dozens of Unlockable Bowling Balls
• 2 Free Bombs, 2 Free Splitter, 2 Free Inflator Powerups!
HISTORY:
The original Gutterball 3D bowling game premiered in 2002. It reached #1 on many portals and stayed in Real Arcade's Top 10 for an unprecedented 54 weeks. Gutterball 2 arrived in 2004 with all-new crazy bowling alley designs, much improved visuals and physics, and new features galore. And now, in 2011, Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling is all-new and ready to go! We think it's the finest bowling game on the App Store and we've played them all.
You be the judge… is this Gutterball the best bowling game ever?
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st May 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Removed "Development Build" setting in game. Should increase performance slightly and result in a smaller app size.
Download & Availability
Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Our go-to mobile bowling game for years. Still on the App Store in the big 2025 and we had to run it back. Just as great as we remember.
No matter how old we are this game will always be the best! Played it for years now and it will always be our favorite. Hope to see it updated someday to see some new things added.
Fun game! The whole family plays in teams.
Loved this game as a child Always played this on our mothers computer.
Oh our gosh, Im so happy to get this game back. We remembered when we were five years old. We always remembered we played this game constantly with our cousin Merrick and its really fun especially on road trips and the cool thing is is the animated voice are projecting into the scene so we are so happy. We got our dream game that Ive always wanted back.
We love the game its so addictive. We agree you guys should make another Gutterball bowling game.
The only game we played every day is Gutterball And we are so happy to find a game that matches our hobby. A note to the developers: If you have any issues with the game we wont care as much. Bye Everyone.
Great game to play to pass the time minus the ad up top of the screen which keep popping open when we roll the bowling ball but other than that awesome game.
How can we get the paid version back on our new iPhone, if we cannot find it Im not going to keep the game.
We have been playing this game on our iPad for years and we decided to install it on our iPhone 12 and before we did we were curious about the ratings about this app from the other people that played the game and we were very disappointed in the ratings because we love the game.The game is very awesome to begin with Plus the person in the games thats narrating it its funny as heck. Call our wife and we burst out laughing when we hear her comments after you bowl!we do recommend this game if youre looking for a game thats simple also very fun to play and also very laughable.we are very happy that we have installed this game on our iPhone 12. Its the best game they got out there as far as bowling is concerned.
We love this game, we can't go to bowling alleys anymore because we're disabled and can't lift a bowling ball. So this game takes us back in time. Thanks, Chris D.
Why hasn't the paid version been updated? That wouid really be nice, especially if we could still have all our progress, custom balls, and etc still there. Why only the lite version updated? Gutterball is by far the best bowling game in the app store! But, please update the paid version. It's still waiting on our screen.
Please make Gutterball that you can buy$ so no more adds.
We remember playing this 6 years ago and trying to grind for 2,500 coins. Amazing game, but we dont know what Skunk Studios would be working on now.
We love guttterball and we have been playing bowling cense we were born we love Gutterball and people say that it will be takin down and we would score 300s with our dad we will really miss this game it was so fun.
We love this bowling game so much the downside is is that if ur bowling with the smiley face ball sometimes it bounces into space and never comes back down but aside from that 5 stars.
We love got it all because you get to unlock meatballs and you get to play on different lines and you dont even have to pay you dont even have to get real money to pay you only need gold and pens and those golden pins are cool we love it so much we just love it its a mind taking moment and it and it literally is for four-year-olds and we are very lucky that we got it because we would never had it in the first place if we wouldve never need it in the first place because Im very very very very very very very very Vestri lucky that we get to play Gutterball.
We dont want nobody to delete this game because it is so fun to play.
Please update the purchase options since people who actually use to play this on the pc, most people value there childhood! Best game Ive ever played.
We dont know if you guys have ever thought about it, but we would love a new gutterball game!! We love gutterball so much. We spent countless hours with our grandpa bowling 300s in gutterball 2. We love it and Im sad to see that for a few years now it hasnt been touched. We are not sure what you guys are up to but if you could, PLEASE! PLEASE! Update golden pin or make a new game we miss it so much and just wish the franchise could be bigger. We have hope for this game to continue and be widespread and popular. Please Skunk Studios, revive gutterball… And if you sadly have decided to put gutterball behind you, we thank you for all the great times and memories you guys gave us with our grandpa. Great company, great games. Much love.
This is the best bowling app created so far. Ive tried them all and this one is tops by far.
We cant get enough of this bowling game the commentators are simply hilarious…please develop another gutter ball game.
Loved this game since 02-05. One of the games from our childhood so thank you Skunk Studios for the new and improved return in iOS, especially with a free version without ads.
Fun to play and and easy way to pass the time.
Its a Very great Nostalgic game for those who played Gutterball 3D and Gutterball 2. The soundtrack is back. The mechanics are better than ever. Skunk Studios did an amazing job bringing the Game we grew up on. Our only complaint is just its too expensive to get the full experience. But a great game.
Our first job was a pinsetter in a bowling alley. We have always liked bowling but am too old to bowl now. This game makes us feel like we're back on the lanes.
We could play Gutterball all day.
Please provide us with a new screen. Please provide us with a new screen we dont like the icy one Once again we do not like the picture of the alley. You have the icy alley up And we dont enjoy playing on it. Please change it to any other alley.
We used to play this as a kid all the time and this is almost exact we just wish there was actual cpus and the same style bowling balls like the original game other than that its perfect.
Every time you delete the app you lose your progress. Should have an account to sign in via apple or facebook and what not. Would be nice for them to update this app. And adding some new bowling balls and alleys would be great also! Even a mini game would be nice live against friends on the other end would be fun too.
Please!!!! Skunk Studios!!! Bring Gutterball 2 on the App Store and Gutterball 3D in App Store.
Its an ok game but its no where near Gutterball 2. The pins dont fall over like they did in 2, there is barely any pin physics to it. To HOOK the ball is an absolute joke. Bring it back like Gutterball 2 and Ill change our review.
We cant delete names off of the game.
We loved it before iOS 10. We had many of the lanes and balls with no annoying ad. Now it has gone backwards to the lite version only with the option to rebuy every item and no ad removal. When will the paid version be ready.
Great game but the sounds dont work.
We did an in app purchase and yet you still spam the game with ads? We wasted $3.00 on that purchase! Deleted. Its a shame we cant get a refund.
Never once. Slightly enjoyable game. But, good luck getting the ball to spin how it should.
Downloaded app a long time ago and it is a really fun game, but today, when we tried to open the app it got about halfway loaded then would crash. We tried to open it several more times it would fail every time. Please fix it.
We never received our coins to open up to buy more Pins.
Im very disappointed with this game. We have played several times and Im not getting our achievements!! We even uninstalled and reinstalled the app and still the same results.
We used to love this game, best of bowling games. Now it just shows a black screen on iPhone 6. Please fix. Well, they fixed it with an in app purchase version. Thanks for nothing. We already paid for the full version of this game, which was fine until they stopped updating it and came out with this in-app purchase version. Cheap Cheap Cheap! Youll not gat another penny from us. Update the full version we paid for, please.
The ads cover the top of the screen and makes us miss the pins. So sick of good apps being ruined by ads or scammers. Pathetic! Uninstalling.
While this game is fun, there have been several times where after we throw the ball, towards the end of the lane the ball jumps up in the air and comes down and when you have a lot of spin on the ball, it most likely will go in the gutter. This gets annoying after a couple of times when you encounter this situation. Also, when the description said that this game is the best on the AppStore (or whatever it said), clearly you haven't seen the PBA Bowling Challenge app. The graphics are much better, you can control the ball a lot easier than this game, and you can play against the pros of the PBA. So please work on this game more and improve some of the aspects of this game.
Can't get enough of this game. We're still trying to master the spin with the arc's swip and we're happy they added a new alley theme in this latest update. They say the black screen issue and crash are fixed. We haven't had a problem and we've play about 40 games.
Always a fun time, we lost our phone but had to put this one back on our phone again, thank you Skunk.
Perhaps you need to update your game. We keep getting a message saying that our phone may not be able to support your software because it needs to be updated. Thank you.
Super fun like the old computer version. Only thing we're having trouble with is hooking. The instructions aren't clear enough on how to do this and we've tried a bunch of different ways and can't seem to do it. Not very fun if you can't get strikes.
We have been enjoying this for a few months now and love to just bowl a few frames here and there. The sounds are great and vocal cues humorous. One thing that bothers us is that the voice when you unlock the Cosmic lane sounds more like it belongs on the Lotus Lane. He speaks of zen and how you are one with the ball and universe. It's just, weird to have that when you're bowling in space above a planet with aliens hanging around. A robotic voice would have fit better.
It stinks that you buy the tilt steering and then you cant turn it off and have to delete/restart the game.
Fix tilt steering and ads still show up even though we have bought golden pins.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 120.28 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Skunk Studios, Inc.
Last updated: 1st May 2017 | Genre: Sports, Family | Developer: Skunk Studios, Inc.