Desert Golfing, Finally a Realistic Golf Sim Makes it on the Iphone.

Give me the beat boys and free my soul I want to get lost in the desert and golf.

I just passed hole 311 and saw a cactus for the first time. In the video game world that is called immersion. With “Desert Golfing”, an app I’ve been playing on the iPhone, the large team of developers set out to make a game focused on making you feel like you’re actually golfing in the desert.

The mechanics of the game can be easily described to a new player but that does not mean there isn’t a complexity to the game-play that requires substantial amounts of time dedicated to your stroke to master the sands. For those players who have experience with other golf or billiards sims, they will be able to hop on into the game without a struggle. Like a slingshot, you’ll pull back to launch the ball. Desert Golfing generously gives the player an arrow to show the distance and angle of your swing, besides that you’re on your own.

The flag pole clearly identifies which hole you’re on, of the desert’s endless course. For each hole, the total count of the strokes required to sink the ball in the hole are tallied up at the top next to a “+”. Alongside the stroke count is the total stroke count. I’ve surpassed a thousand strokes and my arms aren’t even close to getting fatigued. With over a 1000 strokes and having just recently pulled flag 311, I’m averaging about 3 strokes per hole.

Very few successes in life measure up to the amount of satisfaction that comes from a hole-in-one in Desert Golfing. Ideally you’ll shoot for a hole-in-one but occasionally the game throws you a hook and will give you a course that for some reason bust your balls and grinds your gears so hard that you’re walking out of the course with almost 31.1 strokes on a single hole. There are two main challenges that each golfer will come across. First example is dealing with a cliff that hangs over the teeing area. Second comes from over or under shooting your initial drive and having the ball get stuck in valley. Some valleys are so tough and steep that the only way to get out of them is to back track, thus hurting your overall score in a frustratingly painful way.

The cost is $1.99 and I’d say I’d pay even up to $3.11 for the game.

Graphics - really crispy
Performance - runs really well
Audio - just enough and not too much, you can still listen to music or a podcast while playing
Advertisements - none, god bless
File size - like 2 MB, at most
Replay-ability - infinite
AOTY (app of the year) - not sure when it was released but most likely

Desert Golfing drives it out of the range. This is a completely flawless game that I can’t recommend enough. I gifted two copies of the games after a few holes and they are now just as hooked on stroking. We’ve been sending each other screenshots of our scores, which makes this single player adventure a community experience.

9.99/10