Skyline Bowling

There is no single player mode. That is a lie. It's online only battle royale style with players being eliminated each round

The game looked fun to play, however despite being a Unity game, this game offers no options to be played in a windowed mode. Launching the game with "-screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-height 1080 -screen-width 1920" starts it in a window until the control layout images load, then it reverts to fullscreen. This makes it unplayable on multimonitor setups and for players who prefer windowed mode. Additionally, Multiplayer is greyed out and unable to be selected, making this title at the time of reviewing a wasted purchase for my friends and I who were looking to play together. Lastly, it isn't a requirement and the game plays just fine with a mouse, however, it would be a nice addition to allow playing with a trackball controller without having to map a button to Mouse1 and holding it down. Edit: It appears that the multiplayer is only local/split-screen. It is also misleading that the multiplayer requires multiple controllers, while the store and library pages say controllers are not supported.

Who do you think you are?! I AM!

First two things: This is a fun little game for $1.99, and please keep in mind that I'm trying to write this review as early as possible before the the sale is over. Steam says single-player, and the only option in the main menu is single-player. It's a single-player game. Those are fake players that you're "matchmaking" with. Don't listen to that guy who said it's a actual battle-royale game. It's one of those games that pretends that you're with other people. There is a multi-player option at the main menu, but it's blurred out. I assume it means they had planned on adding multi-player, but do note that it's been over a year since its released and it's not an "Early Access" game. Don't bother entering "Training" mode. Once you start it seems that the only way out of it is to close the game, and you're better off practicing in the actual "league". It's almost impossible to botch a throw. On a standard, flat lane, the worst you can do is have the ball gutter at the very end of the lane. The real enemy is the obstacles, they will absolutely gutter you. That being said, yes, you CAN CURVE a ball. You would think they'd show this for more than a half-second in the preview video to en…

A note to the unaware: This is NOT an online game, it's a singleplayer only game where you're competing aganst a bunch of pretty useless AI opponents with fake, randomly generated gamertags to give the impression that you playing online. Mildly amusing really because I read a review elsewhere from someone proclaiming to be the greatest bowler in the whole world ever due to never having lost an online game. He/she/they/them/it/both/neither/all/other was a console gamer so that probably explains quite a lot. Skyline Bowling performs well on a Steam Deck but no controller input is detected when docked, so if you want to play on your big massive telly then it isn't going to happen. What I liked about the game: Nothing! 2 games (and 2 wins....I'm an online god too!!) was enough for me. What I disliked about the game: Everything else. I'd request a refund but, erm, even I'm not Northern enough to grovel for £2.09 so I'll make my money back by having chips without the gravy for my next Sunday dinner.

A solid waste of many hours of fun bowling