Vertiginous Golf

Vertiginous Golf

Skip · Short indie · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 3, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Cost per hour▼
$4.00/hr
Reviews▼
57% of 1,108
Critics
63 players 6 lower
Genre rank
Top 97% Short indie

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
2.5h
To 100%
7.7h 3.1x the story
Finish
4% reach the ending
Achievements
45

Price and sales

Sales
109 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 July 2018
Sale every
35d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.90 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
11% of its genre
Better reviewed
3% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

49% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 109 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Golf With Your Friends ($3.74, scores 73) and Golf It! ($8.99, scores 80) both outscore it.

More about Vertiginous Golf

Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 3.1 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement4% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour$4.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 58% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 36 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

This has a beautiful putt meter!!! pull back then release and it tells you on you next putt how hard you hit it last time! Courses are very fun and not boring. With a fly over before you start.
erizer1Recommendedafter 19hFeb 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Vertiginous Golf is a dystopian steam punk mini golf adventure game set in the skies above an alternate world where life on the ground is enveloped in permanent smog, constant darkness and never-ending rain.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 512MB graphics card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Vertiginous Golf scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/272890/vertiginous-golf
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-6
Critics63
Players57
Metacritic critics · 1,108 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperKinelco & Lone Elk Creative
PublisherFellow Traveller
GenreShort indie
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements45