There’s a substantial amount of contrasting, non-identical courses to work through across the various modes. I should stress this doesn’t happen every time, but it’s certainly random and there’s no real way of knowing when it’s going to and when it isn’t, so I was far more cautious about using it once I realised there’s little to do about it. Obviously a bug that can be ironed out but in the review period it was infuriating and as such, ‘Free-Cam’ wasn’t used all that often, only to maybe attempt to work out where the ball needs to land if you can’t see it directly from where you begin. For whatever reason the game will register analogue movement of the camera in ‘Free-Cam’ as an instruction to add Spin to your tee-off, and will add it inexplicably without your knowledge. It’s a handy option though I certainly would have preferred a flyover directed by the game itself at the beginning of the course. Free-Cam allows you to see the entire course to try and work out a direction for yourself from beginning to end, look for hazards and where to use the courses design to your advantage. You have the option of exploring the course before you tee-off with the ‘Free-Cam’, but for some inexplicable reason this is timed (this can be adjusted in the course settings). I won’t say the possibilities here are endless but there’s a nice collection of customisable options if you want to make your afternoon tee-off a little more exciting. You can also adjust how bouncy the ground is, if you so choose. From the amount of time you have to hit the ball (which begins at two minutes), the amount of shots per round you can take before the game tells you to give up and go home along with being able to tinker with gravity itself to as low as 25%. With a vast array of options to modify the incoming golfing experience you can tinker with pretty much anything you like to bend the game to your desires. Your initial impression of Golf With Your Friends will likely be somewhat negative, as it was for me. You can see why the publisher took a chance on this one, they appear to be collating a solid list of games you can play together that aren’t all that fun and frankly more trouble than they’re worth when you’re playing alone. ![]() It’s built as a party game to nestle in with publisher Team17’s other local multiplayer titles, namely Moving Out and Overcooked. The joy comes solely and absolutely through its multiplayer experience. Blacklight Interactive’s golf sim that’s lived on Steam for the past few years arrives on consoles with little reason to jump in as a single-player experience. ![]() ![]() Upon starting the game, you realise that the chaos of attempting to putt a golf ball into a basketball hoop is close to no fun at all when not playing with your buddies to laugh through the absurdity of it all. Probably more so than any other game I can recently remember. Golf With Your Friends will likely be a new addition to the rotation, even though it doesn’t quite match up to the genre titles we’ve dabbled in beforehand. The competitive nature of being able to simulate golf when none of us would have any skill of the sport in real life (save mini-golfing our way around Butlin’s Minehead) is a guaranteed inclusion on our game nights. From Tiger Woods PGA Tour to the sorely underrated Infinite Minigolf, we’ve had countless nights having a blast pelting golf balls up and down simulated versions of real life courses and futuristic sci-fi space stations. Over the years my friends and I have jumped into various incarnations of the genre that have appeared throughout the generations. Golf With Your Friends is the most perfectly titled game of the year so far.
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