Once you’ve familiarized yourself with the eleven courses, you’ll then want to experiment with the game’s customisation options, these just as silly as the courses you’ll putt your way around and some even going to make completing holes near impossible. The difficulty just like the locations you’ll travel is all over the place – one moment as simple as a quick two putts, the next hole leaving you at the mercy of the sometimes-unpredictable physics of the game and the next a labyrinthian route threatening your low score.
While early courses like Forest and Oasis will seem pretty straightforward featuring lumps, bumps and the occasional half pipe, you’ll soon find yourself in later courses having to roll around candy pipes, skip along the skeleton of a long-deceased dinosaur and even avoid the swinging tentacles of a Kraken. Compared with other mini-golf games it’s a rather healthy number especially considering each takes you to a very different environment with their own unique obstacles. Golf With Your Friends packs in eleven 18-hole courses (with what looks to be another space hinting at a twelfth based on Team17 brand The Escapists coming down the road). A split-screen option could have offered a nice alternative from online whilst at the same time keeping the simultaneous play. Local play is still a pretty fun option albeit a far slower-paced way of experiencing the game. Even with just two of us playing, we spent just under an hour getting through one course. Just like online, up to twelve can get involved though of course the bigger the group, the longer the game will last with everyone now taking turns as opposed to all swinging simultaneously. If you yearn for the turn-based action of local multiplayer then Golf With Your Friends has you covered too. Putting your ball and then getting to watch as a friend struggles is ever so satisfying, even more so when you can trash talk them in the process. The game is at its best of course, when playing with people you know although I’d highly recommend getting everyone on a voice or video call whilst you do. For now, though, be prepared to have to wait else risk hitting the greens on your own. Granted, it’s still early days (the game has only been out a few days at the time of writing this review) so the player base could and probably will grow.
I do wish finding a game was a little easier overall though, certain points in the day often yielding no rooms to join and even peak times forcing me to wait around for several minutes until a few others started to hop into in mine.
Golf with your friends hole in one full#
So far, I’ve yet to find myself in an online game with a full twelve players (my maximum has been eight) but even in a lesser-sized group, I’ve had a fun time. Overall, it feels a little more hectic and livelier. It should come as little surprise, but thanks to this, the game has a good pace to it with little downtime and the added enjoyment of watching the balls of other players bounce around or firing off the course entirely in real-time. So, no longer are you left checking your phone and patiently waiting for your next turn, watching every other player making the same shot over and over. Where this game has the edge over other miniature golf games out there on Switch right now is that it not only includes an online option for up to twelve players, it also has everyone taking their shots at the same time. It’s incredibly simple in premise and controls making this easy for anyone to jump in. Golf With Your Friends – as the name suggests – is a golf game you can play with your friends (or even online strangers if you so choose). Could Golf With Your Friends fill that void? As much as I enjoyed WHAT THE GOLF? it definitely raised my hunger for a more traditional golfing experience. While WHAT THE GOLF? feels more like the combination of puzzles, WarioWare-style humour and only a small sprinkling of actual golf, Golf With Your Friends is instead a straight-up miniature golf game albeit one that’s a little crazier than your local down the seaside. This week sees the release of not one, but two golfing games on the Switch and both delivering a very different take on the sport itself.
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