GolfTopia
This is an early review. At review time, I have about 2 hours of gameplay, and about 25 hours of watching YouTube video.
I have sufficient knowledge to give a good review..so bear with me.
First, I am a life-long golfer, and first played in 1974. I am also a lifelong PC and X-Box golfer, having played just about every golf game ever made, from PGA Tour golf for my Pentium 1, up to all the Links series golf games, all the Tiger Woods, and especially every game that ever sported a golf course designer.
– Real player with 42.4 hrs in game
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GolfTopia is the spiritual successor to Sid Meier’s SimGolf (2002). That’s high praise from someone who spend probably about a hundred hours developing the perfect golf course in that game. Then again, it’s been a bit of a hobby of mine over the years. I used to publish JNSE courses back in the early 90s and I still sometimes catch myself looking at terrain and figuring how a golf hole would lay on it. So I was pretty excited to see this title and I can say I’ve been enthralled with GolfTopia.
For those who aren’t as old as Methuselah and may have not played SimGolf, here’s a brief rundown of the game play loop. You have a top down view of the land (randomly generated) and you start designing golf holes. Your guests will be happy, or won’t, depending on how interesting, difficult and fun the hole is to play. Make it too easy and the golfers won’t like it. Make it too difficult and they’ll storm off the course after punching someone. Make it too much like another hole and they’ll get bored. The more interesting the holes, the more money you make. That allows you to upgrade your facilities and build more golf holes with higher fees.
– Real player with 39.0 hrs in game
Worms Crazy Golf
Background: I’m a casual fan of Worms game, love everything about it. I’ve played golf maybe 10 times or so in real life. I picked up the game on a humble bundle.
This is one sweet game. You have 4 18 hole courses to play in a 2d platform style. You choose your club from a driver, iron, wedge or putter, each behave differently and choose your angle and how much power to swing it.
You have a few different objectives, you need at least a Par to progress, although later with powerups its common to get hole in ones. You will need a great mix of strategy, powerups, planning, and luck to get it right.
– Real player with 45.4 hrs in game
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Worms Crazy Golf is, as the title suggests, a golf game in Team17’s Worms universe. It is not a serious golf game, like for instance Tiger Woods PGA Tour or Links, but a more wacky 2D golfer keeping with the series comical tone and graphical style. Supposedly it is a sequel to the 2004 mobile game Worms Golf, but who cares, right? The object of the game is to complete each hole on par or below par with its par number. If you fail to do so you have to play the hole again. There are three courses (four with the added mini expansion Carnival Course) that contain 18 holes each. Once in awhile you get to play extra challenge levels where the object can be to keep the ball in motion for a certain time or to pop all balloons, etc. These challenges are quite fun and can be a good break from the normal levels.
– Real player with 18.7 hrs in game
Golf Club Architect
Golf Club Architect is a game about creating, managing and playing your very own golf course.
Start out with a few simple holes to get those green fees rolling in and as your funds accumulate further refine, grow and decorate your course to satisfy your customer’s skill and aesthetic needs.
Features included:
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A variety of terrain editing tools so that you can raise, lower, level or smooth out the ground.
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An array of surfaces including different lengths of rough, hazards such as sand as well as patterned fairways and greens.
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Place paths to connect your buildings, greens and tees allowing players to seamlessly navigate your course.
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Golfers in Golf Club Architect are very expressive, watch them closely to discover which parts of your course are enjoyable, beautiful, ugly or difficult.
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Advanced analysis mode allowing a deep-dive into historical shots played at a hole and by what level of player.
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Golfers like a beautiful course. Decorate with fences, benches, bins, flowers and more.
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Play the course yourself with Joe Golfer to test out your creation or challenge one of your members to skins, matchplay or strokeplay.
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Host and play in tournaments to increase your reputation.
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Resort Boss: Golf
The principles of this game are very fun and it starts to scratch the itch of playing a modern
Sim Golf with a few tweaks to make it new. However it falls flat as a sale of a complete game. There are not enough pre-made buildings. I have spent hours making versions of my own buildings when all i wanted to do was construct a 5 star hotel to meet an in game achievement or advance to the next level. The building editor is possibly the most disappointing part of this game. It has great potential, but takes way too long to make anything worth while.
– Real player with 58.8 hrs in game
The aesthetic is really nice, and the concept is really cool, but it’s just not done well in many ways. It actually makes me a little sad, because I would love for this to be an amazing game, but it’s just got too many flaws, with not enough going for it. EDIT: Not just flaws, there are multiple completely game breaking bugs. I just had a bug in my main game, where I’ve spent many hours, with a total networth of 3.6 million, and it’s now a useless save, because a bug happened where I won’t be able to progress at all.
– Real player with 53.9 hrs in game
Perfect Golf
THE GOOD:
It’s a golf game… for those that enjoy the type of video golf game that isn’t necessarily all about of the arcade elements from golf games of yore. Instead, this game is clearly aimed at being more of a golf simulation.
The game, bolstered by the course creator community, offers over 400 courses, including accurate renditions of popular course destinations from all over the globe; as well as, plenty of fictional courses.
Also, the game is basically one of only a few somewhat recent developer attempts at bringing a commercial golf game to market. So, there aren’t a heck of a lot of other choices; and, it’s admirable that the relatively small team of developers stuck with it for as long as they did.
– Real player with 2158.2 hrs in game
UPDATED 2-20-16
To potential buyers, be warned that the developrs have askd for poeple to post reviews. So the flood of recent reviews stem from that request.
Even with the latest updates this game still has a long way too go. The RTS mouse swing isn’t as good as PGA2k, TW series or CPG/WGC. It just has no feel, you have no idea what went wrong when the swing motion that just worked fine now sends your shot shanked off into the woods or a hazard. Ball physics are still unrealistic. This game is more frustrating to play than real golf a lot of the time.
– Real player with 890.3 hrs in game
The Golf Club™ 2019 featuring PGA TOUR
Love it!!
Huge fan of TGC2 (1300 hours played…) and from the 3-4 rounds I’ve played on 2K19 it does seem to be basically TGC 2.5, and I’m really glad because the things that made TGC2 brilliant are still there:
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A difficult to master (but extremely rewarding) swing mechanic, incorporating both straightness and tempo
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Lots of variables you have to consider for every shot. Not just wind/carry distance but is the ball on an uphill/downhill slope or below/above your feet? Is the green firm or soft and is the pin on a downhill/uphill/left/right slops (your landing point will need to adjust depending on this)?
– Real player with 1365.5 hrs in game
I’ve played this game over 50 hours now and I can tell you with certainty, this is the best Golf Club game and also the best golf game out for your money. While there are some things that need tweaking with the game, it is well worth your hard earned dollars to buy and play. Let’s go through the main good points and bad and you can make the decision after reading.
The good:
-Swing Mechanincs. This year took a step up in the feel of your swing through swing mechanics and feedback. Every shot feels weighted and precise. The lie, your swing input, the wind, everything goes into your swing and it makes it feel authentic and true to real life.
– Real player with 460.6 hrs in game
Trivia Vault: Golf Trivia
You get what you paid for, 5K achievements at minimum price. If you’re an achievement hunter looking to increase the number of achievements on your profile showcase, then I highly recommend buying this. Else don’t waste your money. This is not a game, it’s just a way of distributing achievements.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Fast achievement SCAM game! You get 5000!!! achievements just for turning it on for one second! Why?! Why is it here?! There is a ton of games like this,with absolutely the same layout and design just different theme (golf, food, etc.). Instead of it being one game with different themes they split it in hundreds of useless mini scam games. Just look at this “developer’s” list of games - half of them are the same trivia game each with 5000 useless spam achievements.
There is a lot of “developers” here on steam producing games like this in bulks. Some of them with stolen art and bad, stupid design. They sell them on e-bay in 50-games-bundles for 2$. If you think that you’ll get a good deal for only 2 bucks, you’re wrong - all the games are waste of time, quick achievements scams. Don’t pay for this! Don’t support this scammer developers! Games like this ARE and SHOULD BE free.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
WGT Golf
This is the most expensive golf game you will ever buy. The game is what many people have become to hate, and that is a FTP, but Fail to Win if you don’t spend money. I am not talking about spending a few dollars on something you enjoy, but you could literally spend hundreds on this game. If the developers spent as much time on the game itself instead of the marketing scheme they created to get you to buy ever item they are selling, this might be a decent game.
The fact is if you buy nothing you will only get so far and have a hard time getting lower scores especially without a decent distanced driver and 3-wood. You won’t be able to reach the green in two on some par 4’s. You also will not be able to buy certain clubs until you unlock them. What this does is present you minor improvement clubs that you might need to advance and then you unlock other clubs that if you had access to, you might not have to keep buying several tiers of clubs instead. Again, this game is nothing more than a marketing scheme.
– Real player with 436.4 hrs in game
Okay, at 17 hours, I think I can make a judgement on this game.
WGT or World Golf Tour is both a Steam and Browser-based golf game. The fact that it is free play on both platforms is a plus. Also, your stats/levels transfer between the two.
Graphics
I don’t think the people who are criticizing the graphics have played golf or watched it on TV. There are no swoopy 3D cameras save for perhaps the intro to a particular hole. In this game, the 3D players and balls are tracked on hi-rez 2D photographs. They are not low-rez, and they are not Google Earth, so don’t believe what you read.
– Real player with 28.2 hrs in game
GOLF in PAPER
tiny, simple but clever game based on physics
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Unparalleled game-play with sophisticated mechanics and alluring visuals. The perfect game for the average or experienced, proficient golfer. While incomplex at first glance, even the most astute mathematician may struggle with the troublesome trigonometric functions required to usurp dominance over some levels. Over all i rate this game 8.237 / 9.487.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Golf Peaks
(edited to mention world 10 with 12 new levels.)
an excellent puzzle game where you’re given a bunch of cards representing various movement options (number of squares, swing type), and not surprisingly in a golf-themed game, your goal is to lead the ball to the hole. beautiful visuals, music that doesn’t get on your nerves after 5 minutes (except in world 7), separate volume settings, unlimited undo, and post-release support with additional levels, mechanics and music.
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
Good casual puzzle game
This is definitely one of the easier puzzle games I’ve played, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t well-designed. The mechanics, while not groundbreaking (it is a golf-themed game), are interesting enough and fairly well-executed. I really liked the ‘shot card system’. You start with a fixed hand of cards for each level, each card representing a type of shot (length of shot, chip/ straight shot, etc.). The shots can be hit in any of the four main directions, and each card can only be used once. This means there is a limited number of moves you can use per level, which makes the game simpler and more accessible for inexperienced puzzlers. There are also 120+ levels in the game, which adds some meat to the game, otherwise the game would feel too short as the puzzles are relatively easy to solve.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game