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
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
Tower Unite
A social minigame simulator with a heavy emphasis on meta progression/customization and community interaction. What started as a Gmod custom server has evolved into an incredible standalone activity filled social space, and one of my all time favorite games. While socializing isn’t necessary in Tower Unite, it might be kind of hard to avoid getting roped into it once in awhile ;).
Highly recommend this game to those who like achievement hunting, social spaces, house building/customizing, minigames (minigolf, bowling, supermonkeyball, infection, arcade games, gambling, fishing, etc.), seeing player created content (workshop and player housing), and/or item collecting/collectibles. And probably other things honestly, this game fills a lot of niches!
– Real player with 718.2 hrs in game
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Really fun game, honestly it’s a game I come back to every now and then. I really think that the amount of mini-games is nice, although I feel like it could use map customization, but the fact it has so much customization with your own houses/condos and character model is pretty great already, definitely a game I recommend, it’s a must get if on sale if you like social games of sorts. More so if you plan to play this with friends.
– Real player with 690.0 hrs in game
Golf It!
The best golf game on the market. Tons of amazing user created maps and controls that offer incredible depth.
– Real player with 357.6 hrs in game
This is the only way I can legally hit my sister
– Real player with 84.9 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
Mini Golf Club
fun game to play, there are only 52 free courses and 6 premium, got this early this year 2021 , now June 2021, still no more courses, but on windows 10 store this exact same game has over 70 courses.
– Real player with 30.6 hrs in game
I so want to recommend this game. It has great potential. It’s fun, generally easy to use, a lot of courses. But some of the holes are just impossible and there are no difficulty settings. In one course, there’s a water hazard right in the middle of the “Fairway” that takes up the entire width, that it took me 6 strokes to get around, a few inches at a time around the 3 inch margins. I understand and like a good challenge but just on course #2? And keep it SOMEWHAT realistic.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game