Golfie
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $17.99.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $5.14/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 420 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Golfie is a run-based, roguelike minigolf deck builder for 1-8 players. Play through procedurally-generated levels, build a deck of crazy card abilities, and try to beat all 18 holes. Pick your route carefully because no two runs – or shots – are the same!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Dedicated Graphics card with DX10 Support, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
42 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Real Pool 3D - Poolians (free, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats 3on3 FreeStyle: Rebound (free, scores 7).
More about Golfie
1 of the 275 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
At 3.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
56% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I've had this game generate impossible levels 3 separate times, unless this issue is fixed it's not really worth attempting to play it.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The generated levels are terrible. Most levels we played were WAY too long and had horrible "design" that made you waste all of your shots on 1 obstacle. Building the maps out of elements with tons of little things to get stuck on was a dumb choice. The arrow showing where your shot goes means NOTHING, it's often very inaccurately showing how the ball will bounce, it always over or under shoots the ball, and doesn't...
I think the mechanics of Golfie are some of the most fun out of any roguelike I've played before. However, there are so many annoying and game-breaking bugs that my recommendation is much more difficult to give than I would like. It's sort of a shame this game never became more popular; I think if it had a larger dedicated community, then the developers would have felt more inclined to add more content and fix these...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Golfie scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1579020/golfieReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.