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
Extrorb
In Extrorb, you control the action! Maneuver your orb through challenging ramps and boost zones over oceans and forests! Try your luck at one of the traditional levels and relive the joy of visiting the arcade! Up for a game of hoops? Grab a friend and compete for highest score on one of the 8 different local multiplayer levels!
Have a blast!
If you get stuck, or you just really want to annoy your friends, resetting your orb has explosive consequences.
Want a boost?
Some levels require an extra push to get you where you need to go.
Tons of player skins!
At launch there are 33 skins to choose from, all of them unlocked!
Shared multiplayer boards!
Not only do you get to share half a seat with your friend, but each level places you against each other on the same board! Coupled with explosive physics this can lead to some intense head to head battles for the best score.
Forests, Icebergs, Arcades, oh my!
At launch there are 8 single player and 8 multiplayer levels with a large variety to choose from. From classic arcade scenes to serene larger than life forest levels, there is something for everyone.
Achievements & Stats
Global leaderboards will help compare your skill against the best in the world, as well as multiple Steam Achievements to unlock!
Amazing Soundtrack!
We’re using some awesome tracks from Dark Fantasy Studio in Plouguerneau, France!
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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
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 With Your Friends
Well the game it’s self is great, unsurprisingly, especially with friends.
unfortunately though the game now contains tracking, which supposedly you can turn off. they won’t tell anyone what information they could possibly be collecting from a golf game though which is of course, very suspicious.
– Real player with 70.3 hrs in game
I have put many hours into this game with friends. No more.
Recently added spyware.
The latest patch, “Analytics Patch 1.2” added on by default tracking that reports home whenever you click online play. The game, regardless of enabled or disabled “analytics”, breaks when blocking their spyware server (ads.t17service.com).
spyware : Software that secretly gathers information about a person or organization.
The software has an option to disable analytics, but still attempts to connect to analytics servers.
– Real player with 57.0 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
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
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
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
Pull Ball
Nice and simple game to play once in a while while maybe doing something else or listening to music etc. Won’t use much resources, can nicely keep it running on the background. I like the windowed-mode which doesn’t take the whole screen, which in my opinion is not required for a game like this.
A fresh way to play a kind-of-a-golf-like-game. You can implement strategies on how to create the best score since the score is accumulated through gaining distance and wall bounces. With single shots you get 2x multiplier as well as with when you score the ball inside the inner hole. Because of this and the leaderboard, this has a nice competitive aspect to it.
– Real player with 77.0 hrs in game
As a 2D minigolf lover, this game was fun for a while. The idea of getting points by bouncing off the outer walls of a level is a fun mechanic that gives levels a lot of replayability as I try to get to the top of the leaderboard in each level by using 2 shots.
However, it seems the best strategy is often the same: just zig-zag as much as possible and then attempt to hit the center of the circle. Hitting walls actually increases the speed of the ball a tiny bit so you also get more distance by zig-zagging (which gives more points).
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game