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
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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
Super Inefficient Golf
The game pretty much plays the way it looks. You get up to 4 sets of mines that you can stack up to 4 each (for a total or 16 simultaneous mines placed on a ball) per shot attempt. Total mines per hole is also limited in case you just can’t get the ball in the hole, but it’s generally dozens of mines per hole.
Overall, this game is a lot of mindless fun and worth a few dollars buy-in.
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Pretty game/art/graphics
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Solid physics
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Good sound
- Many of the holes have a bunch of assets that never come into play (for me). In fact, I couldn’t really tell much about the features of any given hole - the game pretty much allows you to bypass everything with well-placed mines, and this is a must if you hope to get a low (high?) score.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
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Remember the ending to Caddyshack? Someone took that, subtracted the kangaroo, and made it into a game. Oh, and Al Czervik was wrong.
The Good:
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It’s definitely a fun way to change up a game of golf.
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Place up to 16 explosives all over a giant golfball and set them off.
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The soundtrack is wacky golf music if I’ve ever heard it.
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Cheating isn’t really cheating. If you can figure out how to land a trickshot in this, you earned that win.
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Explosion-based physics really opens doors to interesting playstyles and experimentation.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Walkabout Mini Golf VR
What a hidden gem! This is an absolute MUST have for VR, especially if you are playing with friends. You’re going to think I’m kidding, but this stands next to Pavlov and Alyx in my top three VR games.
While so many games feel like tech demos, this plays smoothly and accurately, has great multiplayer, has fun collectables, it’s got charm - It’s just an actual finished game that feels like it was made with love.
Not the mention the new map added for free which was awesome and introduced a new gameplay mechanic as well. I can’t wait for the next one. I’m writing this review because the devs really deserve it!
– Real player with 42.1 hrs in game
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This is the best VR Mini Golf game out. I really like the map designs and searching for new golf balls and looking for clues on the (hard) courses to unlock new putters really adds more to the game.
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
Tank Golfing
Interesting Idea, clunky/terrible execution.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Chetz!
Chetz is a great game that combines platform gameplay with Chess aesthetics. Don’t be fooled by the simple graphics, the game is indeed challenging and requires precision. Good exercise to train your reflexes.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Very original concept that leads to a ton of fun mix & match combos. Trying to figure out which pieces to use against which obstacles is changeling but executing those moves is harder still. Would recommend using a Xbox controller
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Marble Mage
this game has me hooked. super fun and unique charge mechanic sets it apart from other marble games, while working extremely well. as a speedrunner, it opens up TONS of cool tech, and it’s enjoyable casually as well. controls very well, just takes a bit of getting used to. the star system encourages the player to explore different ways of playing the game (raw speed vs collecting crystals), the level design is really fun, the music is jammin', and your character is just a cute lil cat fella!
any cons i could think of really just pertain to the lack of options when it comes to display/audio. it’d also be nice to be able to navigate menus with the controller. but that’s not really taking away from the gameplay itself, which is superb. and at $3 for 60 levels, you’re basically robbing the game devs. GET THIS GAME
– Real player with 70.5 hrs in game
This is really good.
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
Golf Gang
Golf Gang is the fastest game of minigolf you’ve ever played. Blend precision with speed to dominate the green in 8-player online mayhem.
Win by using the fewest shots and finishing fastest.
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MULTIPLAYER MADNESS
Challenge your friends across three game modes and hundreds of holes. Twist the rules or fry em' up good by combining modifiers to create thousands of unique ways to play.
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CUSTOMIZE YOUR LOOK
Hit the course in style with custom skins, trails, hats, accessories and more!
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GOLF FOR GLORY
Compete with your friends for the top of the leaderboard in the addictive single-player time trials, classic, and hybrid modes.
What are you waiting for?
Invite the whole gang along and get ready for fierce competition!
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ENDLESS ACTION
Challenge endless mode and face the RNG gods, together or solo.
Mad Tracks
I remember having spent hundreds of hours just with the demo of this game back in 2007 when my internet was still piss poor and somehow found mad tracks on a compact disk.
There were only 3 tracks: Training Day, Foosball and Fast Food
Sending rockets to my opponents while they are taking a speed bump and getting them off the track on Training Day was my speciality, Foosball was Rocket League but even nastier and funnier, and I think I probably found some hidden shortcuts in Fast Food.
The game went quite under the radar and even finding a digital copy of the game was hard (I’m not talking about the wii version or the shady russian iso) but now it’s on Steam, multi-languages, with an handy remote play feature to play with your friends (since there’s no multiplayer for the PC version).
– Real player with 34.9 hrs in game
–-{Graphics}—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☑ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe
—{Gameplay}—
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t
—{Audio}—
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape
—{Audience}—
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Human
—{PC Requirements}—
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{Difficulity}—
– Real player with 22.4 hrs in game
Golf98
Great little game to pass the time. We hang on fast. The background music is nice!
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Arcane Golf
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The one thing it needs to make it perfect is a replay shortcut button because it’s tedious to go to the top left corner every time. Also the yellow replay button is unintuitively placed in between the exit and “next” button. I think those should have been placed vertically instead of horizontally but nvm.
– Real player with 21.5 hrs in game
Arcane golf is, well a golf game, kind of. You are expected to put the ball in a hole, but going through 2d levels it’s closer to a platformer with golf controls than to other minigolf type games.
The visuals of the game are very pleasing, and the game actually has some story behind it, with a character talking you through as you progress with the levels, nothing special but adds some to the world.
The gameplay for the most part is also fun, but there are a few exceptions, most levels are designed with a specific way of beating them in mind, but during some I just couldn’t figure out what that way could be, since they were really open, with no real indicators what the devs had in mind, some lightly tinted wall bricks as to indicate a first hit, or a place to aim at would be a nice touch, as it was admittedly a bit frustrating to just be stuck and try to find a valiable strategy, while messing with angles, places to shoot from or speeds of the hit. It was rare (only a few levels like that) but as there are no guides for the game it was bothersome.
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game