Last updated on January 30th, 2026 at 01:31 am
PBA® Bowling Challenge – Casual Game Review
PBA® Bowling Challenge is a Casual/Entertainment/Sports game from Concrete Software, Inc., first launched in 5th November 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 130,680+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes PBA® Bowling Challenge Stand Out
Rise through the ranks against 24 of the PBA’s best bowlers as you compete for a variety of regional and national championship trophies. Starting in a local alley with a scuffed up 12 lb ball, you’ll hone your skills against bowling legends on your way to competing in the Tournament of Champions!
Start a career or bowl a quick game!
Career mode is at the heart of PBA Bowling Challenge, but if you’d rather just lace up and take to the lanes, we’ve got you covered. Choose from a wide variety of opponents and locations and unlock even more content in Career Mode!
Online Multiplayer Action!
Bowl against your friends in real-time, one-on-one multiplayer matches! Powered by Game Center services, multiplayer mode lets you invite your friends or get matched against a random opponent!
Bowl against the best!
How do you think you’d fare against the cool confidence and pin-point accuracy of Walter Ray Williams, Jr. or the brash power stroke of Pete Weber? How would your scores stand up against the high spin and smooth release of Norm Duke or the high cranking backswing of Tommy Jones? Based on actual statistics that track their power, hook, and control, PBA Bowling Challenge strives to accurately recreate the skill and style of the top bowlers in the sport today.
Features Include:
- Quickplay, Multiplayer, and Career modes!
- Dozens of PBA Tournaments!
- Bowl against 24 of the best PBA bowlers!
- Over 100 different bowling balls with unique stats!
- Leaderboards and Achievements.
- Bonus challenges in every tournament!
- Split Balls, Bomb Balls, and more!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, PBA® Bowling Challenge is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Strike! The new PBA Bowling Challenge v3.22.0 update is now available for you to take a shot at:
- Resolved an issue with ads appearing at incorrect times.
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Download & Availability
PBA® Bowling Challenge is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get PBA® Bowling Challenge 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:
Tons of bowling balls to choose from and has fun challenges daily. Competing against real bowling pros is cool too. Love Pete Weber.
Easy to play!!! And easy to win.
We think this game is awesome because it is bowling at your house and they give you cards that you trade in for a new bowling ball.we also think this game is awesome is because you can play with a partner.we think this game is for you because it is outstanding.
We haven't been able to play actual bowling since 2003 but our am is still good.
In the PBA game, the ball moves too slowly. Is there a way to speed it up? Otherwise, it's not too bad. At least we picked up a spare.
Without a doubt the best bowling app out here BUT the ads after every fricken game is the worst thing we have ever come across from our years on earth.
The game is awesome we are so good at it and also great bowling physics we are so happy we downloaded this game.
Wanting a game that focuses on multiplayer competitions. This game dont NOT. It does have multiplayer that there is challenge with it and only for people you know. The random matching dosnt really work and again there is no benefits. This game is really only focuses on single player competitions with no AI. Competition is always predetermined.
This game is a lot of fun Just wish they had all the bowling balls in time.
Can you please fix multiplayer glitch we cant play with our brother.
Our husband and we play this game together!!! We have so much fun challenging our skills.
We love to play bowling its a great sport and its a great way to get out of the bad habit.
Great game with way too many ads , utterly ridiculous.
We think this game is super fun and addicting, but we need help with something. Can one of your staff tell us how to reset your progress.
Fun to play, events are really cool, easy to get gold pins by watching ads.
Theyre out of control . Do you monitor what ads between games are in content. Im bowling and get 2 min ads about kids apps. And you have to wait! Thats our only one. Ive left games because of that.
Loved this game from the moment we got it, its easy to play, but also challenging enough where you can learn from your mistakes. Heres our issue! The ads. We understand games use ads to help to continue to make money, while keeping the game itself as free as possible. The issue is, some of these ads are MINUTES long, without the ability to skip. Its very annoying, and makes us not want to play the game. There is an ad after every match. If that could be resolved, we honestly would give this game 5/5 stars.
Its an amazing game. Mechanics are great and we feel like Im bowling in person. But we did have Two things we didnt like about it. 1) There are tons of cool balls to choose with different abilities and all. But whats the point if theyre going to be so expensive in in-game currency. Youd have to play dozens if hundreds more games in order to get to unlock them. Playing dozens of games wouldnt be a problem if it werent for our second point. 2) The energy and ads are so frustrating. The energy wouldnt be as big a problem if it wouldnt be depleted after one or two games. For a game Id hope to play in our leisure time, its annoying having to close the app and doom scroll waiting for it to recharge. Following that, right after any game youre smacked with a long unskipable ad. Which youre better off just closing the app and reopening rather than watching the entire thing. Overall we truly love this game. We want to be able to play it more if it werent for the minor details. We would consider spending a dime or two, but with everything behind a paywall. It doesnt seem anytime soon.
You guys really need to fix the icloud issues we can hardly play because it never wants to load the game or our progress cause it says our icloud is disabled.
Deleting this app for good. Been playing for a couple of months and every single championship we have entered we end up losing at the last phase of the set. The alleys are played a couple of times and at The beginning phase you can bowl nearly perfect games, but when you are close to winning the championship game, you can barely bowl strikes even though you are bowling on the same lane as previously. Its almost as if the game were fixed. Sorry but we wont be returning.
We love Bowling, its one of our favorite sports.
We love the game but how do you remove ads? There is no pay option to do this.
It used to be a fun game but now after every game you get a ridiculously long ad to wait for. The ads are so long that its just not fun. Its too bad because the game itself is good.
Was playing and doing really well. Bowled a few 300 games and could strike consistently on different oil patterns. Then all of a sudden we kept leaving a pin or two on the lane and some of the pin fall animations would just be a pin falling in place spinning instead of helping taking any other pins out. Was bowling a 250 consistently then our score dropped to 200 or less. Very frustrating.
Was a great game but now lagging and skipping while rolling down lane. Also like other reviewers have stated, the ads are incredibly long and way too many. The ads sometimes last longer than the game itself.
The game is lagging on approaching and needs updating big time.
Been playing for 3 years now and would suggest some new challenges..how about 1: make that spare..different spares 2: speed strikesmake as many in a time period 3. No screen tilting allowed to affect curve. 4. Red pin..if random red pin comes up in #1 pin position, and you get strike, double score for frame.. 5. Night bowling.. Only light on pins and marks.. Great Game.. But needs more challenges.
It's decent but didn't drag us in like it did before. The multiplayer is garbage which is disappointing. We also had won a ball design challenge and can no longer get that ball. We're assuming because we were on Android before. So all progress lost apparently. Overall decent we guess but still highly disappointing.
This is probably the best bowling sim on IOS. The downside is you are bombarded by ads which are super long, super repetitive, cause the app to crash often and are predatory for people who are susceptible to cash grab scams.
Pretty fun game, could be addicting. It takes around 2 minutes to complete a solo game. After each game is around 30-45 second ad. So playing 10 games takes 20 minutes and gives them 3-4:50min of ad time per 10 games. Way to many ads for a game like this. Deleted it pretty quickly. Needs a rework.
We would rate this 5 stars because of how good the game is but we cant. The reasons are explained below. 1. Ads after every game/match we get you need to put in ads to help keep the game where it is, but we feel like its very excessive considering its after every match/game. It would be better if it was after 3-5 matches. 2. No way to purchase no ads If the ads are going to be like this, there should be a way to purchase no ads ever for a certain price (one time purchase). Its really annoying how there isnt anyway to purchase no ads as like we said in #1, its just really demotivating and annoying to play the game if there are ads after every game/match.
Been a bowlers since 12. Many patches later we enjoy bowling on your site everyday because of its authenticity.
We enjoy this game. Its really fun.
Wonderful game, we play it every day.
We have played since 2016 and recently started a new save on our new phone, and Im having quite a lot of fun with the events that keep us hooked, we do wish the devs would bring back balls like Storm Rocket, though.
For us its great because we cant bowl physically.
Anyone know how to change the venue in multiplayer before game starts? Ours is always the dive. Ty.
Mai is an idiot who has a history of lying to the American public about his own personal life and more lies to them isnt good for you either.
We have played this game for years and years. That should tell you something about how much there is to this game. Tournaments, bowling alleys, gobs of balls, and events. Sometimes theres even like humorous stuff. The rolling ball feels the best of any game. We like this game better than bowling itself.
So many bowling balls to collect, really cool lanes to unlock, and professional bowlers to beat. Id definitely recommend this game to anyone interested in a mobile bowling experience.
We dont know if anybody else has this problem but after we quit it takes us 4 to 5 days before we can get back in. We dont know why this is it just does not work right we know it shouldnt take 4 to 5 days before we can get back into bowl, we really like this game its addicting and we can play it for four and five hours at a time but if we quit and stop itll shut off and we cant get in again for four or five days why is that can that be fixed.
Good game , but too many advertisements about games where you can win actual money.
Its really annoying having to close the game out and go back in because of how often and aggressive the ads are. Even if you click the X out of the game it brings up the purchase page.
This game as our childhood favorites , but game lags a bit when we hook the balls and its very annoying and the ads are horrible.
Love the game. Only problem we have with it is you should make it to where you dont have to forfeit a tournament to practice.
Why are they charging you money now.
Might be fun if theres some sound.
Great game play but you will be drowning in ads. After every game (which if you play like us could be 90 seconds) you have to watch a 60 sec ad with no way to escape. Id pay a few bucks to get to an ad free version but as it sits right now its more a huge distraction. Would not recommend until they can give an opportunity to stop cramming ads down your throat.
Not too difficult yet not so easy. We do better on this game than in the real world but we think if it were as challenging as it is in real life people would get discouraged. Still, we can have a terrible run so its kinda close to our actual ability. The ads arent as obnoxious as with other apps.
Come pa PBA Bowling, it is fun.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.22.0
- Size: 143.27 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Concrete Software, Inc.
Last updated: 13th October 2025 | Genre: Casual, Entertainment | Developer: Concrete Software, Inc.