Bowmasters vs Subway Surfers
Subway Surfers is the better choice for a more enjoyable gameplay experience.
While both games are popular free-to-play options, Subway Surfers offers a more engaging experience with fewer complaints about ads and better overall gameplay. Bowmasters, although fun, suffers from excessive ads that frustrate many users and detract from the enjoyment.
Head to head
you prefer a game with a unique premise and are okay with frequent ads.
you want a more polished and engaging game experience with fewer interruptions.
Evidence note: Bowmasters has a significant amount of negative feedback regarding ads, which skews its reviews. Subway Surfers, while not without complaints, generally has a more favorable reception overall.
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R3] Bowmasters Multiplayer?: Really fun good game I spent money and all but man I need multiplayer mode so I can play this game please
- [R6] Bowmasters Nidkrkewjjwnq: I want 2 player
- [R69] Subway Surfers Love the game: The game is really nice I love how you get power ups
- [R104] Subway Surfers Love the game!: U can play it while going on trips it does not require WiFi so u can play whenever u want to and btw there a lot of activities u can do do events, quests, try to get new characters, and play the main game!
- [R4] Bowmasters ads: if I got a penny every time I got an add in this game I could buy the whole NBA twice. If i could get all the hours back of watching these ads i could start a new life a new job and start a family until im in a coffin.
- [R16] Bowmasters Too many ads and pop-ups: This is horrible, every few seconds an pop-up ad gets in your way and it keeps popping up after exiting out, thus too many ads when playing that take too long. Because of this I can’t enjoy playing this game. This game is ruined by ads.
- [R75] Subway Surfers Good but a lot of ads: Btw pls read!!! This game has a lot of ads but it’s a good idea for long car rides! Sometimes it is super glitchy tho and is constantly playing the same ads and asking me to buy the bundles! A good idea for this game is to have a starter pack for first timers so they can get like 10,000 coins 30 keys and like a couple of boards and characters!! In the showdown races I for s
- [R90] Subway Surfers So fun but YOU NEED TO FIX THE ADDS: It’s a great way to kill time in a no Wi-Fi space the only thing is the adverts they annoy me and make me not want to play the game anymore because your hyped up and like yes I’m gonna beet my high score and then pop an advert for an app I already have or and advert for an AI game it’s ridiculous If you are going to show an advert at least make it real not
- [R43] Bowmasters Lost all of my progress: This seriously would have been a good game if it wouldn’t loose my progress after an update. I had unlocked almost every character in the game and I guess there was an update or something because I never deleted the game or bought a new phone or anything, I opened the game recently, and I saw that I had lost every character except for the starter characters. I used to have
- [R49] Bowmasters Ads, ads and more long ads.: This game used to be a lot of fun, but it’s become almost unplayable because of the excessive number of long ads. What’s even more disappointing is that I paid $3.99 for the “No Ads” option, yet I’m still forced to watch lengthy advertisements while playing. That feels misleading and completely undermines the value of paying for an ad-free experience. I understand tha
- [R78] Subway Surfers This is not fair: I love your game. It’s not like I want you do go down, but there is a bug I need you guys to fix. I beat a lot of people in the leader for the run. Twice , I beat the champions high score. I even beat my own record. Then when I come out of it, in still in the same place, I refreshed my game and this was still here. You guys owe me my diamond and my champion medal.
- [R99] Subway Surfers Ads: The game is amazing but every time I play it it glitches sometimes so please change the glitches . I really want the game to become a WiFi less app so I can play whenever I want please take this seriously and stop ignoring people comments it’s annoying u b
- [R9] Bowmasters good: the games good but theyre just a lil too money hungry
- [R10] Bowmasters Huge money scam: Installed this game thinking it would be fun, literally never got to the main menus/playable spot once loaded as there is an immediate pay wall that you can’t even play the game without paying a subscription.
- [R92] Subway Surfers Best game: This is the best game I play it every day o adds unless you claim something but other wise the is the best so I just wanted to tell you thank you
- [R115] Subway Surfers Subway surfers: I love subway surfers it’s so relaxing and fun and I get prizes just for opening the app every day
- [R20] Bowmasters I bought remove ads years ago: I bought the remove ads years ago when the app literally just came out and now I still get a tons of Ads? Why? How do I get contacted for this issue?
- [R81] Subway Surfers Too much Ads: Why you guys show us too much ads . I skip the of watching Ads after getting hit but then also an Ad popes up I don’t wanna see why this happens . If I wanted to watch ads I could have click the ad button after getting hit . Please fix this
- [R28] Bowmasters TOO MANY ADS!!!: Love the game but you have to watch an ad like every 15 seconds. RUINS the entire game!
- [R73] Subway Surfers Ads: Ads are horrible I’d rather have the option to turn them off completely so my daughter can play uninterrupted! This is absolutely ridiculous.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store