Quick Golf

Genre: Sports (Golf)

Players: 1

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Review:

(Note: This game is included in 15 in 1 Family Games Mega Collection along with 2048 Battles, Adrenaline Rush – Miami Drive, Airborne Grannies, Bubble Cats Rescue, Classic Games Collection Vol. 1, Classic Games Collection Vol. 2, Flowlines VS, Go! Fish Go!, Go Kart Mania, Jet Ski Rush, Klondike Solitaire, Ludomania, Pet Shop Snacks, and Pocket Foosball.)

Quick Golf is a side-scrolling Golf game released on Nintendo Switch in 2024, making use of simple 1-Button controls where your only consideration is the timing of your button presses.

The presentation here is simple but unspectacular, making use of cartoony 2D visuals backed by repetitive music that’s only just decent enough to avoid getting annoying. All of this is packaged within a presentation that just screams “mobile game”, though as far as I can tell there doesn’t appear to be a mobile release of this game.

For the gameplay, each shot you make has you pressing the A button twice – once to stop the projected angle the ball will release at as the indicator tilts up and down, and one to determine the strength of your shot as a meter fills up and then drains again. It’s simple enough, but it can be frustrating because your button press takes a moment to register, and the indicator doesn’t give the best idea of what your ball’s projected path will be.

In some levels, particularly the extremely tricky levels you’ll be presented with as the game progresses, it will really feel like you’re just trying different combinations and hoping for the best. You can’t even work toward getting your ball increasingly closer to the hole because you’re always required to make the shot from the starting location to the hole.

I feel like this difficulty would be mitigated somewhat by a proper multiplayer mode, as all players will be contending with the same restrictions. Sadly, no such mode exists – this game is single-player only.

Overall, I can see players getting a little fun out of Quick Golf’s simple side-scrolling Golf gameplay, but the game’s levels ramp up in difficulty far too quickly, and the indicators are simply not helpful enough to keep this game from becoming a maddeningly thankless task once it does. There are plenty of Golf games on Nintendo Switch, including multiple side-scrolling Golf games. You can do better than this.

tl;dr – Quick Golf is a side-scrolling Golf game with simple 1-Button controls that has you timing button presses to determine the angle and power of your shots. Unfortunately, the indicators don’t give you a good enough idea where your shots will go, the difficulty curve is too steep, and the lack of multiplayer really hurts here too. This isn’t a terrible game, but you have better options on Nintendo Switch.

Grade: C-

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