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
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
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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