Cursed to Golf
Chuhai Labs · 2022 · Roguelike, Difficult, Golf, Adventure, Pixel Graphics
PC
Mostly Positive71% · 68980Metacritic
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About Cursed to Golf
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Play as a cursed golfer trapped in Golf Purgatory, completing increasingly devious courses within strict par counts to earn your way back to the living world and claim your tournament trophy. Master roguelike-style progression across 70+ holes filled with wild hazards like fans and TNT, using 20+ magical Ace Cards to manipulate shots and outsmart the competition.
Play as The Cursed Golfer, trapped in Golf Purgatory after a freak accident takes you out as you’re about to take the winning shot of an international tournament! Legend says that playing through the devious courses across Golf Purgatory will get you back to the land of the living and, more importantly, to the trophy you were about to win. Each course is governed by a ghostly Legendary Caddie, who will tutor you in the mystical ways of golf to aid you on your quest for redemption and revival.
Cursed to Golf offers a fresh take on the golfing and roguelike subgenres. Make your way through a hole within the PAR Count or your curse will take you back to the beginning of the course! To add to the challenge, these courses don’t just have bunkers and rough spots but are also chock full of mad obstacles like high powered fans, spikes, TNT boxes, teleporters and a whole load more. It’s all par for the course in this twisted take on the classic game!
Being cursed to play golf forever in the eternity of Golf Purgatory has its benefits, too! Use Birdie-Eye to catch a view of the whole course and see what trials lie ahead. Par count running low? Luckily, gold and silver Shot Idols are peppered throughout the holes, smashing through them with a cinematic flourish will replenish your shots. Ace Cards will turn the odds back in your favour, channeling your otherworldly powers to manipulate the game in incredible ways. Scattershot, U-Turn, Rocketball, Mulligans are just some of 20+ cards you have up your sleeve to turn the tide back in your favour!
Every shot counts!
- Explore the golf-themed world and characters of Golf Purgatory
- Precise “Golf-Like” gameplay across a randomly-ordered course in 4 biomes
- Navigate tough dungeon-like holes filled with wacky hazards
- Golf in style using over 20 unique Ace Card power-ups
- Challenge the world in online leaderboards
- 70+ holes to experience will keep you swinging for eternity
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Cursed to Golf is a roguelike about hitting balls with a stick. Went in expecting it to be 1-3 hours based on other reviews, but that's generally the time limit for when people give up. Used a keyboard/mouse. Thought this game was going to be a cute golf game - It's cute and there is golf - but there's a level of difficulty and auto-generated unfairness I wasn't expecting nor wished for that turned the game into something less fun. I think the problem lays in the fact that describing how to play is long, tedious, and does not tell you everything (including core gameplay mechanics). So it's less of a 'figure it out, learn as you go' experience and more of a chore. I accidentally started in the practice area and was wondering why I wasn't making any money or getting anywhere. Couldn't even sort out how to turn my guy around or change clubs. Then, eventually, I found how to properly start the game. Gave up after the long tutorial. Next day I tried again, thought I had figured it out, started having fun, then came up against a no win situation (thin vertical shaft ending in water with a small gap directly below me and only I'm assuming ricocheting to get through it. Then…
one of the best and most unique golf games
fun animated golf game, not serious. Not your typical standard golf game.
Good game, using golf to travel the terrain is really different and fun!
Help yourself with this: DON'T think of this as a golfing game. It's a DIFFICULT strategy-heavy roguelike in which you have to exploit perks and cards to progress. It's an intentionally very unfair golfing game (the bosses man, wtf), NOT just golf with some weird powerups. You'll feel constant pressure of not being able to make mistakes, and still get set back regularly anyways. Card and perk usage needs to be carefully planned out. Most stage hazards don't get explained, cards and perks are vague as well, so you'll have to throw away some runs to figure out what everything does, which isn't fun because a run can take hours. This needed some in-game item/hazards guide. IF this still sounds fun to you, then you are getting a great package: Some of the highest quality pixelart that I've seen, varied biomes, very polished menus and the BGM has some actually memorable Jazz-fusion tracks. Seen some people have complaints about it feeling slow and clunky, but I didn't feel that personally. All in all though, I did misunderstand what Cursed to Golf actually is, and I didn't really enjoy my time. To be fair the game trailer and tags do reflect this pretty clearly, so the blame is on me…
Great art, animations, music, but the gameplay isn't for me, I think I would've liked the game more if it wasn't so dependant on power-ups and was more about actual golf. It just felt off as it is right now. Trying to navigate each hole blindly didn't feel great and hitting the ball feels awkward. The "map" (in the limited time I played) doesn't really feel consequential either. I think this game has potential, but was in need of some extra QOL.
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