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PC Gamer
Christopher Livingston

I tried to become a pro bowler but I skipped one important step: learning how to bowl

Pro Bowlers bowling in a bowling alley.

AI is coming to take my job, so I'd better start looking for a new one. Luckily, there are a ton of job simulators on Steam, and I'm going to play as many as I can until I find my next career. This week's job: PBA Pro Bowling 2026, a bowling sim about bowling.

As a new bowler on the amateur circuit, my first day isn't going well. I'm trying to learn how to hook the ball—to roll it in a curving pattern so it hits the pins at an angle—and it turns out there's quite a lot to it. You even have to consider the oil patterns on the alley and how they affect the ball. I didn't know there was oil in bowling, let alone patterns of it.

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