Golf Peaks

Golf Peaks

Worth it · Short indie · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $4.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.32.

Length
2.8h
Value
$1.78/hr
Reviews
95% positive
It needs 13% off ($4.32) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.8h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
4.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.78
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
1,155 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

A relaxing puzzle game where you climb mountains by playing golf. Pick the right cards, avoid hazards and conquer over 120 summits!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$1.78/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length2.8 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds2 of 350 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.74, set in March 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 71 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $4.32, a level the record has reached 70 times.

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stacklands ($7.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Railbound ($12.99, scores 65).

This site sampled 350 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 214 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

94% start to 20% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 15:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Pretty good puzzle game. The difficulty can spike at kinda weird times and you're can/need to solve most/some puzzles through trial and error. It's a chill time
CJofCourseRecommendedafter 4.1hAug 2026Read on Steam
This is a pretty challenging puzzle game based on golf. It would be nice if there were some explanations of each of the new mechanics, but I could figure them out myself.
tianara101Recommendedafter 2.4hJul 2026Read on Steam
This game was played in its entirety on a MacBook Air M1 8gb ram 7c gpu running MacOS Sonoma. There were no bugs or crashes throughout my time with the game. All achievements unlocked at their appropriate times. Another quick review, as this is another charming puzzler from the folks at Afterburn. I've enjoyed their first (inBento) so much that I immediately installed this game, their second, and finished it pretty...
Trunk MuffinRecommendedafter 5.7hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Golf Peaks scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/923260/golf-peaks
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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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAfterburn
PublisherAfterburn
GenreShort indie
Released2018
Achievements12