Golf 5 eClub Reviews

game is amazing, would recommend.

Great game for steam it' realistic

I really enjoy this game. great physics and it really feels like I'm out there. give it some love!

I have a Quest 3 but I got this game to play golf with a friend who has PSVR and we are both pretty disappointed. The golf aspects of the game are not terrible if you are able to get into a game and actually play but getting to the course and staying there is a mini game in and of itself. For starters, the menu system is generally pretty bad. Creating a lobby to invite friends and getting into game are complicated and doesn't work well. The game runs through Steam so I should be able to invite steam friends quickly and easily but this game requires you to become friends inside the game and creating a lobby and those friends is not intuitive. If you don't create your lobby right you also get randoms joining which makes playing with friends even harder because at that point you have to back out and start over. Aligning clubs takes awhile and requires multiple sessions of tweaks as you are playing - something the other golf sim game does with a single button. My clubs are also too short and just making them longer doesn't seem to be a setting I have found. I can move the club further away to make the club head touch the ground but then the handle doesn't match up with my hands. The game requires you to download a phone app to do any avatar customization which is something I just refuse to do. The free courses that come with the game are pretty mid and playing any other courses requires buying "memberships" at the clubs with in game currency. It has a very "freemium" feel which is crazy for a game that costs $20. All of that might be something I would overlook but so far we haven't been able to finish a full round of golf. For one of us, every time we play, Steam crashes while in game. Rejoining a lobby after you have crashes seems impossible - or at least we haven't been able to manage it. My controller loses tracking regularly and I have to wait for the game to relocate it. Entering into pass through mode is the most dangerous thing of all. Sometimes that causes Steam to crash or sometimes I am unable to ever get my controllers to come back and that requires a restart of Steam VR and the game. I have played 100s of hours using SteamVR and spent a decent amount of time in Golf+ on my Quest and the problems I have experienced in this game appear to be solely residing within this game, not a problem with my hardware or Steam. My friend has a lot of problems with controller tracking on the PSVR and rarely is able to get a full swing that connects as expected (not just bad golf shots but the ball firing off randomly in different directions - including straight backwards). I will admit, though, that we don't know if that is a problem with the PSVR system, her setup, or the game itself. Unfortunately, if you have anything other than a Quest this is really your only option for a golf sim but even with that, I still can't recommend this game. Maybe on heavy discount and if you don't plan to play with friends (as that seems to exacerbate all of the issues with the game) then maybe it would be worth it but outside of that it's better to just stick with Walkabout.