The aesthetic is really nice, and the concept is really cool, but it's just not done well in many ways. It actually makes me a little sad, because I would love for this to be an amazing game, but it's just got too many flaws, with not enough going for it. EDIT: Not just flaws, there are multiple completely game breaking bugs. I just had a bug in my main game, where I've spent many hours, with a total networth of 3.6 million, and it's now a useless save, because a bug happened where I won't be able to progress at all.
EDIT: It's even worse than I thought. There are memory leak issues, where my game is now running at less than 1 FPS, I kid you not. I have allocated more memory, and turned all the graphics down to their lowers, and it's still less than 1 FPS. This game is made incredibly badly.
One major point for me, and other achievement hunters, is that there is a broken achievement, that is impossible to get. I've tried it in all game modes, across multiple computers, with different operating systems. I've also complained to the devs, and they said that the code was working. The way they worded it, you can tell they didn't actually test it. The game is broken, and you can not 100% it.
The AI system is quite important (the golfers play golf), and it's also quite bad. You get huge lineups, very quickly, and there are bugs where the golfer will get stuck, and never hit his/her ball again, forcing you to close down the hole and reopen it.
The physics for the ball when playing golf is really bad. You'll get completely random bounces, where it will be flying practically straight at full speed, but when it hits the ground it shoots into the air. Other times it will take a mad dash to the left randomly, for no reason, with completely flat ground. Incredibly unpredictable.
There's a lot of spelling and math bugs. The game tells me I made 74k last month, when I made less than 10k. Just things like spelling errors, bad wording, etc.
The UI is a bit buggy too, where it will show up when it's not supposed to.
The writing is bad, and not varied. You get people saying what they liked and stuff, which is a cool concept (like from Rollercoaster Tycoon), but there's literally one response for each type. If they liked it a lot they say X, if they didn't like it too much they say Y. So you hear the exact same responses constantly. Also, what's written just isn't interesting, when that's supposed to be the draw for this idea.
A lot of graphical glitches too. Pathways clip under terrain so there's splotches of green. Trees randomly disappear and reappear. Characters will stand dozens of meters away while hitting their ball.
The economy doesn't really make too much sense. There's just not enough stuff for it to be a real management type game, which is what builders are. There's not really much at all to manage, aside from how much you charge per hole/course. You basically just sit there, waiting for your money to go up, so you can build some more. There doesn't seem to be a real challenge, or thought, or management, or anything, behind it all, which "should" be the driving force behind the gameplay mechanics for a builder.
The good of the game is firstly the aesthetic, as I said, and secondly, what you build. The graphics are cute, and everything flows together quite well, and it's genuinely a fun experience to build a golf course. It's relaxing, and creative, so it is a fun concept, but all the other flaws really make me sad, because I wish this was a better game.
