Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling is possibly the most sterile game I’ve ever played. It does a good job at what it sets out to do – be a simulation of professional bowling – but that’s all it is. There’s no fun, and the presentation is extremely bare-bones. Get a strike, and you’ll sometimes get a short animation of your bowler silently putting one of their hands in the air. There’s no fun animation, no big letters saying “STRIKE”. Nothing.

For how it plays, it’s absolutely fine. Aim, add spin, then do a golf-style power/accuracy. In a way, it’s too good, as you’ll become fairly consistent at getting strikes by the end of your first match.

There’s a few different modes of play, such as a single match, tournaments, a career mode where you play multiple tournaments, a mode where only strikes count, and an enticing “Cosmic Bowling” option. Instead of picking visually different lanes, you instead select the oil pattern of the lane, something which only means something to the professionals. There’s very little variety to how the game actually plays, no challenge mode with different pin setups, no fun bowling minigames.

The only hope for something different is Cosmic Bowling….

…Cosmic Bowling is just regular bowling with garish colours.

Poor

Remake or remaster?

There are better bowling games.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to play Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling