The Game Census
Desert Golfing cover art

Desert Golfing

Captain Games · 2017-12-18

Steam

IndieSports

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 06, 2014 (Android), Dec 13, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 07, 2014 (iOS), Dec 13, 2017 (Mac)

Golfing across an endless desert.

99%
positive of 104 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)
Desert Golfing is a minimalist golf video game developed and published by Canadian indie studio Blinkbat Games, designed by Justin Smith, and released on August 6, 2014, for iOS and Android, and on December 19, 2017, for Windows and macOS. It received a positive reception from critics for its addictive gameplay and simplicity. In July 2020, Smith, now operating under the studio name Captain Games, released a follow-up titled Golf on Mars, featuring new control options and course generation variety.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 41,148 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.6k–6.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 104 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172026Week of 2017-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

GolfIndieSportsMinimalist

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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