Damien Crawford's Golf Experience 2024
Cannibal Interactive · 2024 · Simulation, Sports, Golf, Singleplayer, Minimalist
PC
Positive100% · 13
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About Damien Crawford's Golf Experience 2024
You are not someone who plays sports, but you are someone who is patient. Patient enough to start playing a sport where you hit a tiny ball toward a hole many hundreds of yards away, a hole roughly the same size as the ball, and eventually get it in. Someone patient enough to clear a course by completing this task 18 times consecutively. Someone able to get access to a clubhouse that lets you visit any of eight different courses.You know that things like "spin" and "wind" exist. You also know nothing about reading or applying them. You have a half set of clubs and the basics of how to swing a club. You know a Par 3 is shorter than a Par 4, which is shorter than a Par 5. You know Woods are good for distance, Irons and Wedges are for getting out of bad spots, and the Putter is meant for the green and is a cruel mistress.You know to stand directly on top of the ball before trying to use space/enter to interact with it. You know you can back out before finalizing your club selection, but once you reach the point of setting your swing's power you are as the kids say "locked the fuck in" and can't back down. You know that with each stroke, you're going to have to hunt the ball down.In this game, you have virtually no hud or information. You also have no time limit and the only fail state is when you decide to quit. In the clubhouse, you can talk to the worker to pick what course to play, or go to the door to save, quit, or check your course records.You can save or return to the clubhouse before finishing a course by hitting space/enter when facing the flag/hole. The goal is to get the ball to the same exact place the flag is. The tee always faces the fairway, and the fairway always leads to the green where the flag is.The lesson is that even if you have patience, sometimes you need to learn what that word truly means. Also, if you want to change the controls your only chance to is at the title screen.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Truly captures the experience of not being very good at golf. There's a quiet meditativeness to whacking a ball out into a snowfield or rainstorm and wandering around where you think it should have landed to try to find it, and even approaching the occasional par score feels like a real accomplishment.2 found this helpful
I've never golfed a day in my life but I'm entirely certain that this game is an accurate depiction of what golfing would be like. I struggled to pick a club. I wandered around trying to find my ball after hitting it into a small depression on the fairway. I got lost. I tried putting the ball into the hole only to overshoot it, and then undershoot it, and then overshoot it again. I golfed on the moon. Also plays great on Steam deck so I can enjoy/suffer this experience from the comfort of my bed.2 found this helpful
This is a very cool game that is definitely not for everyone. I'm not sure what I expected from it, but finishing a hole in 4 strokes felt like a huge accomplishment. If I had to summarize, I would say this game is a struggle (affectionate)1 found this helpful
"The monotony of the golfing experience is hard to describe in text, it isn't as quick as "hit the ball and then walk" makes it sound. You have plenty of time to think in the process of walking to the ball, and in navigating the menus to plan a swing, which leaves a lot of room for speculation. I nail a fairway wedge shot across a patch of rough onto the green, even though I still don't really know what I'm doing, but now I'm saying golf sentences like that to myself, like I understand ANY of this. [...] You are simply here to play. To make decisions that have results, yes, and results may vary, but it is not in the results, nor their variance, but the deciding itself. The frame fades away, and there is nothing but the golf course. The very experience. The Damien Crawford Golf Experience." Read the rest of my review here!: https://guildmastergrouch.com/damiencrawfordsgolfexperience
10/10 Jack Nicklaus would be proud
The whole experience reminds me of the first time I played golf irl, and honestly this experimental, slightly obfuscated gameplay and silly tongue-in-cheek style of play really captures the weirdness of the whole concept of golf in a minimalist way. Good low-poly style too.
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