Daniel Koenig-Meier
For puzzle enthusiasts who enjoy spatial challenges and minimalist, ad-free aesthetics.
Known forIllusion Bowling
Illusion BowlingFor puzzle enthusiasts who enjoy spatial challenges and minimalist, ad-free aesthetics.
Illusion BowlingProviding puzzle enthusiasts with perspective-based spatial challenges through a clean, ad-free minimalist experience.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 1Last updated
Illusion Bowling
v1.0.2
8mo ago
Primary focus
Perspective-based puzzle games
Scale
indie
Target audience
Puzzle enthusiasts who enjoy spatial challenges and minimalist, ad-free aesthetics.
With 0 releases in the last 6 months and 1 active app, the portfolio is currently in a maintenance phase following its initial launch.
1 app analysed
Illusion Bowling is all about rolling balls through a world of optical illusion.
Ad-free premium experience
1
Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
0
Negative apps
68/100
Avg sentiment score
Golf Peaks is the most direct rival in the 'Sports-Puzzle' hybrid niche, sharing a similar scale (within 10x reviews) and maintaining a high update velocity with 2 releases in the last 6 months.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
A direct competitor in the 'impossible geometry' sub-genre that targets users looking for more complex architectural puzzles.
Shows high development velocity with 3 releases in 6 months and a similar focus on perspective-based spatial manipulation.
A strong spatial-logic contender with a high rating and consistent update history in the 3D puzzle category.
The genre-defining title for perspective puzzles; while much larger in scale, it sets the standard for the 'impossible pathway' mechanics the target app utilizes.
A dominant player in the perspective-alignment space that focuses on casual art-based puzzles rather than physics-based gameplay.
A minimalist spatial-logic peer that shares the target's clean aesthetic but uses tile-swapping instead of perspective-shifting.
An adjacent peer that uses perspective for object transformation rather than pathfinding, updated very recently.
A high-profile emerging threat that recently ported its 'forced perspective' mechanic to mobile, offering a more immersive first-person take on optical illusions.
