I really like this game, incredible course designs and very pretty overall, this will keep you entertained for hours. However, playing the game itself is…frustrating. Getting a good score is purely luck based, I’ve had this game for maybe a year and I only have three out of the fifteen possible collectibles, after countless attempts. The relic levels are straight up impossible. Whoever tested this game and said “yeah, the average mobile phone user can score this high,” I want to shake their hand and then step on their toes. TLDR, very fun game but might make you throw your phone across the room.

While the level design and animations are well done and often brilliant at times, the gameplay is often frustrating and downright terrible. The golf mechanics are loose and hard to understand. Parts of the courses are hard to see and often the ball is lost behind parts of the courses. Often, the user has no idea what to do or where to go (I assume this on purpose by the designers) and there is no walkthru on certain mechanics until you come across them in game. Making mistakes in other games isn’t as detrimental as this game with no obvious way to restart individual courses. The angle the courses are at is often blocking important parts of the course leading to more frustration. Overall, great world, good animations but poor gameplay and lousy mechanics make for an overall bad experience. Sadly, because of this game, my first foray into Netflix games will be my last.

It’s odd to me that the game developers chose golf rules for an exploratory game like this. You simply cannot get par most of the time because you have no idea how a certain mechanic will behave, or because a shot needs to be precise but is impossible in the current constraints. The backgrounds and so on are very cool and the new mechanics are interesting, but having a par is unwelcome when you sometimes get an albatross and other times get +35 bogeys. It’s essentially random chance, not skill, which is an antithetical experience for a par-based game IMO.

A poor attempt to make a splash on the game market leaves much to be desired. Netflix focused so much on the aesthetics they forgot to make a playable game. Absolutely no instructions at the start of the game, frustrating game physics leaves you repeating the same shot over and over again. The background of the game is gorgeous but there is so much going on you can’t even figure out where the hole is you are supposed to be aiming for. Not worth the time to figure out the minutiae of the controls. If you are looking for a good way to burn an hour with Netflix, stick with an episode of Stranger Things, this app isn’t worth the time.