About This Game

Golf-Like

Golf-Like keeps one idea from golf and drops the rest: aim, commit, live with it. What is left is a voxel world with no fairway, no par and nobody telling you where to stand.

Drag to aim, release to launch. From that moment the ball is yours to steer — push it through the air, jump, double jump, spend a boost, slow time for a heartbeat. The course runs forward through eight biomes and it does not end. The only questions are how far you got and how fast you got there.

Shooting and control

• Aim and shoot — click and drag on the ground. The longer the drag, the harder the hit.

• Steer after the shot — movement is camera relative, so where you look is where you push.

• Jump and double jump — the ground is not always where you left it.

• Boost and slow motion — two bars, both spent fast and refilled slowly.

You are not out there alone

Red holograms fly with you for the whole run. One on each side to begin with, a new pair every 1500 metres, holding formation off your shoulders. They do not aim at where you are — they aim at where you are about to be, so changing speed is what breaks their lead. Duck into a tunnel and they stay outside and wait for you.

You are armed too. You carry a pouch of spikes and throw them back: a hit takes an escort out of the sky and pays twenty coins, and the wing needs ten seconds to replace it. One card fills the pouch at the start of a run, another throws for you, and a third slows every enemy spike on the course.

The course

• Eight biomes. Each one has its own sky, haze, light, weather and camera. A ring stands at every border showing the world on the other side; crossing it is what brings that world in.

• Hazards. Sea water that floats you for a second before it takes you, spike fields, mines, black holes, tunnels that swallow the light, holes in the road you have to jump, and the void under the map.

• Weather and time. Rain, snow and storms roll in and pass over the run, and the day turns to night and back while you are still driving.

Coins, cards, upgrades

• Coins lie along the course and are the only currency there is.

• Fifteen cards. Three offered before a run, more from chests and from the rings between biomes: a bigger, heavier ball that smashes through trees or a smaller, lighter one that slips through gaps, an extra jump in mid-air, a magnet that widens coin pickup fivefold, coins worth double, a glow that lights the road, night vision, a shield against spikes, a full spike pouch, spikes that throw themselves, slower enemy fire, a tilt-shift view, and both bars full from the start.

• Five upgrades, permanent and paid for in coins: speed, jump height, boost capacity, time capacity and health — fifteen levels each.

Modes

• Run — the main mode. Cards, coins, biomes, and a time on the leaderboard at the end of it. Every run gets its own nine digit map seed, rolled just before you start.

• Maze — a labyrinth generated fresh every time. No cards, every upgrade fixed at half so nobody can jump straight over the puzzle, one attempt.

• Sandbox — flat ground that never ends and nothing that can kill you, with every card switchable on and off while you play.

Options and accessibility

• 15 interface languages.

• Colourblind modes: protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, achromatopsia and black and white.

• Rebindable keyboard and gamepad controls, adjustable mouse sensitivity, and a HUD that can be hidden completely.

• Render scale, V-Sync, an FPS cap and a low quality tile option for older machines.

• Photo mode: time stops, the interface disappears and the camera flies free.

• Windows, macOS and Linux.

Look and sound

Black, white and one red. Flat colour, hard shadows, film grain and a vignette over the top, with a tilt-shift camera that keeps the whole thing looking like a model on a table. The ball presses a track into the turf behind it, and in the snow it clears a line you can turn round and read.

State of the game

Golf-Like is still in development. Content, balance and details will change before release, and some of what is described here will change with them. A time-limited demo is available; the leaderboard is switched off in it.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some visual assets, sound effects, and music in this game were created with the assistance of AI tools during development. No AI-generated content is created in real-time during gameplay.