Golfie

I've had this game generate impossible levels 3 separate times, unless this issue is fixed it's not really worth attempting to play it.

The generated levels are terrible. Most levels we played were WAY too long and had horrible "design" that made you waste all of your shots on 1 obstacle. Building the maps out of elements with tons of little things to get stuck on was a dumb choice. The arrow showing where your shot goes means NOTHING, it's often very inaccurately showing how the ball will bounce, it always over or under shoots the ball, and doesn't account for any power ups, it's often impossible to tell where you'll really go with the awful map geometry and the fact you can't see the arrow from the side so you really have no clue where it's saying you'll land. Your basic shot is so useless that the game has very little focus on actual golf and it's way more about deck building, and being able to skip the entire map, or maybe not even being able to finish the round, if you don't have specific cards in your deck and happen to draw them. There's not that many cards, and you'll hardly ever see most of them. We encountered a number of bugs, some stopped us from even starting the round. The vending machines and coins feel useless. The traps are fun at first, but everyone gets several really fast and the map becomes FULL of fake items. You can place the trap hole literally anywhere on the map, so you always end up with several fake finish holes surrounding the real one. All structures you make have a timeout, except for traps, which drain your "heat" bar until the end of the round unless someone touches one, which most of the time probably won't happen. Carrying life between rounds is a braindead idea... actually, life in general is a dumb idea. You almost always are wasting a shot when you take damage, and there's not much outside of environmental hazards that can damage you. Using life for abilities isn't interesting, and using life when going over par was such a bad idea. But they designed the game around arbitrary scores we couldn't figure out rather than strokes because they had to allow you to waste some strokes on the crystals and vending machines, even though wasted strokes STILL penalizes you with damage. Wouldn't wasting strokes for items be a decent trade-off that rewards good players but rubber-bands the stroke scores for a closer game? But no they didn't think of that.

If you want a great roguelike, deckbuilding, minigolf game... this isn't it While on the outset, all of these things sounded like they could create a really fun gameplay loop, in this game at least, they really don't - Cards are forced, pointless and situational, leaving you praying for the default "lob" and "power" cards in most given situations, I played almost 3 hours and never unlocked any cards that were worth using - Physics and maps are really buggy, I had several situations where the ball got completely stuck and I had to waste all my shots to get out, resulting in lost runs - I was never able to finish a single run in 3 hours - Course hazards are instant run enders ON NORMAL, so you're 15 courses in, the game glitches, lands you in the lava and thats 30 minutes completely wasted - The trajectory arrow is a complete lie, it will constantly drop WAY short, or massively overshoot where the arrow says it's going to go, making it completely impossible to actually predict and play the game properly - There is about 1 or 2 good perks, the rest are just a waste of time (much like the cards) - The question mark levels are incredibly frustrating, they just add a tedious debuff to the course making it insuferrably annoying to complete - Cards are so situational that some of them are unusable without using them in conjunction with another specific card, and especially when you only draw 3-4 cards, the odds of drawing those together is almost nothing, so you just end up with a deck of useless garbage - Did I mention how useless the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trajectory arrow is? yes, I'm mentioning it again because that's how bad it is, it actively misleads you and turns what could be incredible moments of triumph into infuriating rage quit inducing time wastes - Hole start spawns seem to be complete RNG and can genuinely ruin an entire run because the game placed you behind a stupid bit of scenery that you had to spend 2-3 shots navigating around - So many closed in maps where you have to constantly wrestle with the camera to get it to go anywhere where you can actually see a damn thing you're doing Those are only all the issues I can immediately recall after wasting nearly 3 hours playing it last night and I cannot understate how strongly I feel that you don't have to suffer through it like I did, even at it's current 90% off at time of writing ($2.65 AU) I would still feel ripped off Now, maybe it's better in multiplayer, but considering a lot of my main issues were with the fundamental design choices and the way it actually plays - doubt.

Golfie tries to blend mini-golf with deck-building roguelike mechanics, but the result feels more frustrating than fun. The physics are inconsistent, the cards often feel gimmicky, and the randomness kills any sense of strategy. Visuals are bland, and the pacing is awkward, with long stretches of trial-and-error. It’s a creative idea, but the execution falls flat—more rage-quit than hole-in-one. DEMO was more fun then the OFFICIAL RELEASE.

Love the idea but the course design is pretty poor. Lots of places to get stuck. The "randomize card cost" hole effect also seems to be glitched; it disables all card use, which makes some holes impossible.

I think the mechanics of Golfie are some of the most fun out of any roguelike I've played before. However, there are so many annoying and game-breaking bugs that my recommendation is much more difficult to give than I would like. It's sort of a shame this game never became more popular; I think if it had a larger dedicated community, then the developers would have felt more inclined to add more content and fix these numerous bugs. Still, I think this game is easily worth a buy if you can get it during one of it's frequent sales.

The description does say "deck builder" but I thought it would be a few choices, there's like 30 or so cards and most of them are useless or overly complicated. You can only equip a few cards at a time so the draw pile is full of what you don't want. And good luck actually beating a course, I was on "free" mode with unlimited shots and still was testing my patience. Even though the trailer looks decent, this is disappointing and feels terribly dated for a 2023 release.

Really fun game, but probably not worth the full price. It’s supposed to be a combination of mini-golf and a rouge-like deck builder. However, I found the deck building aspect the least fun, since the most useful cards are the ones you start with. Sure, there are some interesting combinations you can get, but once you get the combo you want, you’re pretty much throwing away all other cards… Still, it was fun to try out different perk combinations, and trying to go for an endless run. Also, trying out all of the different challenges was entertaining, and there’s a lot of content you can play through. Overall, it’s fun – Give it a try!

On my friend's computer (which runs many other games fine) it doesn't launch and doesn't end task properly and even crashes their computer. It plays fine on mine, but what's the point if my friend can't play? Garbage.

it's a fun little game