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PBA® Bowling Challenge

Bowl! Strike! 3D Sport Arcade!

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Sports

Languages

English

PBA Bowling Challenge brings the excitement of professional bowling to your mobile device. Rise through the ranks in an extensive career mode, competing in tournaments against real PBA legends. Choose from dozens of different bowling balls with unique stats, and customize your gear to match your playstyle. With realistic lane oil physics, multiple venues, and special challenge modes, it's the ultimate experience for bowling fans everywhere.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

80/100

PBA Bowling Challenge is easily the most polished bowling simulator on the App Store. It successfully balances realistic physics with 'video game' elements that keep it from being too dry. The career mode is extensive, allowing you to rise through the ranks of the actual PBA, competing against real pro bowlers like Jason Belmonte. The controls are intuitive—flicking to throw and tilting your phone to add hook—making it accessible for everyone.

Where the game really shines is in its variety. Beyond the standard tournaments, there are dozens of special 'challenge' balls with unique powers, like the lightning ball or the bomb ball. The graphics are sharp, with detailed lane oil patterns and lighting. While it does have some free-to-play elements like energy and currency, the core bowling loop is so satisfying that it's easy to overlook. It’s the perfect game for a quick five-minute frame or an hour-long tournament grind.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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Official PBA license and real pro bowlers

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Extensive Career and Tournament modes

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Dozens of unique bowling balls with special powers

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Realistic physics and lane oil patterns

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Online multiplayer and leaderboards

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Yes, you can bowl against digital versions of real PBA champions like Jason Belmonte and Walter Ray Williams Jr.

Ratings & Reviews

Very fun app
Mon Oct 29 2018 dmswickrath

Been playing this app continually since 2014. I play every day every time on iPad since I have all the power bowling balls so running out of energy never a problem. When I first started playing game was a little annoying having to wait to recharge but over time saved up to get energy charging balls which eliminated waiting. When enough adds watched to save up to ultimate ball and after then never had to wait again . Never bought gold pins would just watch ads and win to earn, Love the added venues when they appear. Love the special balls, daily spins, weekend events, and other challenges. Only problems are Sometimes locks up after a game and have to restart. This occurs during certain times of year while other times never locks up and works flawlessly for weeks. Sometimes the sound goes away and have to reboot to get back. Sometimes to get spins the videos don’t play and get playback errors. All seem minor compared to the overall experience of the game. Tech support was fine when needed One time at beginning of 2018 the game lost all my settings (special balls, points, gold pins etc....) and I had a LOT of points gold pins and special balls that were all lost, and I was really bummed out. sent email to support which sent me special file to restore my stats and recovered all successfully. Thank god otherwise I would have probably stopped playing game altogether. Hope this game last for many more years as endless entertainment

I’ve been playing a LONG time.
Sun Oct 30 2022 Camdensmommy28

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 the app 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.

very good app
Sat Jan 13 2018 Broken Bridge

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. The app 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 the app 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.

Love/hate relationship with game
Mon Jul 22 2019 Howieb4

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.

Higher pin rewards don’t show up. Update
Sun Feb 10 2019 Kikimasutrap

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.

Some days I like it other days I don’t
Thu Nov 29 2018 gavficusnzn

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?).

Empty potential
Tue Apr 27 2021 Un1que428

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 PBA 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 😒😡🤬🤬🤬

Warning: Don’t be fooled
Sun Jun 20 2021 Bob Dewalrus

The bowling is fine but there’s a HUGE problem with this app. 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 PBA 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 the app 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 the app 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 PBA about this—they would be appalled that the license they granted to this developer is being used to swindle and abuse its customers.

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