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A simple sort of card-based golf game. Although it got a bit tough towards the latter levels, and I resorted to a lot of trial and error in the end. Still a fun puzzler, with simple nice aesthetics.

Golf Peaks' mechanics have so few permutations that it's easy to brute force most of the solutions. It tries to make up for this by throwing in red herrings, which only confuses the player instead of challenging them.

Considering I've had a pretty bad cold throughout December due to the rainstorms early on (I HATE FLORIDA) and been particularly stressed out because of it, I can't exactly think of a better way to cap off 2023 than with this somewhat relaxing golf puzzler.

Also the World 6 Music kinda goes ngl

Golf Peaks is a perfectly fun little puzzler. It doesn't offer much new but it offers plenty that's fun. It's a great buy for $2 or even for free via Google Play Pass/Apple Arcade. It's a good time. Great way to kill a couple hours while you wait for your flight, or meeting, or coffee etc.

I respect it. I think it does a good job of continuously introducing new mechanics, most of which can be understood without needing tutorials. The puzzles, especially early on, lend themselves to a mentality of looking at your available moves and plotting out the route to the end before you take the first one. This is not only fun, but it's also faster than the alternative of trial and error-ing your way through the holes. However, this gets increasingly more difficult the further you get in the game, when you start dealing with larger courses with more moves, and have to do an increasingly large amount of mental math to consider things like wall bounces, conveyor belts, pushes, not to mention how hard it can be to track which things are lined up when there are elevation changes/gaps between pillars. That is to say, in my experience the game is designed as if it expects a lot of mental work from players with few resources to actually make this doable. The game would've greatly benefited from an optional grid and a Layton-esque notes overlay. Still, I think it's pretty fun if you want to kill a few hours.