Astro Golf – An iOS Hole-in-One?

Normally, when anything is said to me that even sounds like ‘golf’, my eyes glaze over and I start thinking about games, films, books, wildlife, what I had to dinner the night before… well, anything other than golf, really.

like ‘golf’, my eyes glaze over and I start thinking about games, films, books, wildlife, what I had to dinner the night before… well, anything other than golf, really. The developers at Bolder Games managed to break my habit of a lifetime, though, when I received a press release about Astro Golf , their wacky sci-fi twist on mini golf, set to release on the App store on the 20 th of February, 2014.

In the words of Bolder Games, which consists of seven developers whom can add such impressive companies as Bethesda, Lego Universe and THQ to their resumes, “ Astro Golf offers a unique blend of gameplay, sci-fi, physics tricks and adventure to bring the concept of mini golf to a whole new dimension”.

Astro Golf is set to be the first of four games in a series, and will spoil the gamer with ‘console-quality’ 3D visuals. A hard-working physics engine also means that your golf balls will be bouncing, jumping, teleporting and quite literally flying around space. That is, if you can use these abilities well enough to your advantage that you are able to keep your ball out of the reach of bots, corrosive goo, steam, fire and an assortment of other obstacles. As you can see, there are more than sand dunes to worry about in Astro Golf.

On top of this, which sounds like enough fun for me to have actually considered having a golf game on my mobile devices, there are also multiple characters to use, with their own personalities and unlockable skills, and a whole host of upgradeable abilities for your futuristic golf ball; laser-guided putting, anyone?

There are three gameplay modes to test your skills across, too – story mode, time attack and strokes attack – with a total of 30 playable holes and a further 15 bonus levels to unlock. Right now, wherever you are, it’s probably too wet or snowy to even think about playing a round of golf in the real world, so Astro Golf looks to have enough unique content to keep you going for a little while.

All this golfing goodness – which may be the first and last time I ever use that phrase and mean it – will initially be exclusive to the Apple Store for iOS devices, but will later be made available on Android, Linux and even Steam. We’ll hopefully have a full review of Astro Golf up on IGM on release day (20 thof February, remember?), so we’ll let you know whether this iOS title is truly on par with the rest of your mobile games.