Golf On Mars 4+

Could there be golf on Mars‪?‬

Captain Games Inc.

Designed for iPad

    • £2.99

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Description

For centuries, philosophers and mathematicians have gazed up at the night sky and wondered:

"Is there Golf On Mars?"

The year is 2866. Mars is 35% terraformed, finally enough to allow the playing of the game of.. Golf!

Golf across an infinite* rocky Martian surface. Discover golfing obstacles that make us Earthlings gasp in awe!

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*Infinity is impossible to represent on any non-quantum computer. In actuality there are roughly 25,770,000,000 golf holes in this game.

In 2020, NASA will launch the Perseverance rover to search for life and golf on Mars. The journey there will take 200 days,
If you were to play one hole of Golf On Mars every 30 seconds during that journey, you would only be able to complete 0.002% of the game (576000 holes).

If you were a paleolithic hunter-gatherer gazing up at the Red planet one night during your traversal of the ice bridge connecting Russia to Alaska
at the last glacial maximum 24515 years ago and a time traveler brought an iPhone for you and your tribe to ritually play a hole of Golf On Mars every 30 seconds,
it would take until the present day to complete all the holes.

But this is not a realistic simulation.

For example, if the ball is 16 pixels wide on your screen then the typical hole will be 1200 pixels away.
Scaling this to the size of a real ball (1.68 inches), it's as if the hole is only 3.5 yards away!

A realistic 18 hole golf course where the fairways are 3.5 yards away would only require about 1300 square feet of land.
However, gravity on Mars is 38% that of Earth's gravity, so you could hit a ball 7 times farther, or roughly 1400 yards for a good player.
This 18 hole course then needs to be to 64000 square feet. You could cover the entire surface of Mars with 241 billion of these golf courses.

Therefore, you could easily fit all the holes in Golf On Mars on the surface of Mars.

Mars is par 3, so aim to finish in under 77 billion strokes.


What’s New

Version 1.05

Fix for ball getting stuck under boulders.
Fix for clouds mysteriously growing in size.

Ratings and Reviews

Matthew Wilcox ,

Simple and good time waster

Not too different from the original; except by hole 50 some sort of new UI appears. Ten holes on, I have no clue what it’s supposed to be doing, telling me to do, or effecting in any way. I’ve tried dragging while ball in flight, nothing. Can’t understand the bouncing UI element.

Use words, developer. Use words.

mr_phillip ,

Good game ruined by poor onboarding and huge bugs

It’s a game that revels in its own pointlessness, and for that it’s a joy. But the onboarding experience, which the developer likely thinks of as a voyage of discovery, is instead just infuriating, leaving you to discover key features like how to put spin on the ball, or how to pan around the course for yourself. Even the settings menu is made invisible. It’s also massively buggy. It frequently interprets a two-finger swipe to pan gesture as a shot and randomly fires the ball off. Occasionally it will randomly return a ball to the tee for no reason. If you scroll while the ball is moving it will sometimes return the ball to the tee as well. It all just combines to turn a gentle time waster into an infuriating source of frustration and annoyance.

Katana_Blade ,

Perfect time waster

Played desert golf. Loved it. Bought this. Love it more. I'm currently on hole 1444, and have taken 5014 shots. This is over the last couple of years (I guess) since it came out. Doesn't require an Internet connection, so you can play it anywhere you find yourself a bit bored. Like work meetings 🤫

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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