David Bowie may as soon as have requested if there may be life on Mars, however Desert Golfing developer Justin Smith is sort of assured that – if there may be – they’ll be properly up for a spherical of the king’s game. Six years later, and Golf On Mars is swinging onto Steam with a extra alien tackle the 2014 golf ’em up’s peaceable procedural placing. It’s extra golf, it’s extraterrestrial golf, however is it higher golf?
Following its early debut on telephones, Golf On Mars arrived on Steam this Friday. It is, very a lot, extra Desert Golfing’s wonderfully simple click-n-drag swinging – however a bit of cleaner, a bit of smoother, and with what seems like a slight floatiness to account for our crimson neighbour’s decrease gravity.
It does seem the procedural holes have been pushed additional this time ’spherical, thoughts. Terrain is smoother, weirder, and gamers gained’t be progressing collectively via the identical sequence of holes. But as some unfortunate Golfstronauts have discovered, the game tends of throwing inconceivable holes in your route occasionally. Oddly, the emphasis {golfing} has additionally been scaled again a bit. Thwack your golf egg off-screen and the digicam will hold following it throughout everything of Mars, no matter what number of hundreds of shots-above-par are racked up.
I’m unsure these actually add a lot to Desert Golfing’s beautiful simplicity, however certain, I’ll put in one other ten, hundred, thousand rounds of golf. According to its retailer web page, Golf On Mars boasts a practically-infinite {golfing} odyssey of 25,770,000,000 holes. But then, so did Desert Golfing, and but that game did very much have an ending. Mars does tempt with an achievement {for golfing} each gap on the crimson planet, thoughts – teasing some form of closure, if not flat-out mendacity.
Golf On Mars is at present 15% off on Steam, at £1.77/€2.03/$2.54, although it’s additionally obtainable for $2 on Itch. Earth-bound predecessor Desert Golfing can also be going for 25% off in the course of the Steam Summer Sale.
