Golf Clash - Golfing Simulator 12+

I’ve been playing over 5 years and still play every week. I’ve never found a mobile game that was this engaging for this long. Never. Nothing even comes close. Everything else has been amusing / entertaining for a month or two or three but always gets boring. Not Golf Clash. The tournaments are the part of the game I play and love and continue to play them almost every week. EA is continually updating and trying to improve the game. Sometimes they come up with great improvements like the recent addition of solo play and sometimes they fall flat on their faces but they are constantly trying to improve and evolve the game and listening to what the community is asking for. You can spend money on balls to make an individual hole more droppable but you don’t have to spend money and can be successful being completely ftp. They don’t force you to watch ads after every round or you can choose to watch ads for rewards but certainly don’t have to.
The other games I’d rank up there with GC are usually games that have an ending. Once you get thru it it’s over. Like Inside. Golf Clash doesn’t have an ending like that. Sure the game has issues. Show me a game that doesn’t but I can’t recomend GC more highly. It’s fantastic.

I was enjoying this game for the most part when I started out. The match-ups weren’t too crazy until I started getting into the higher levels. The game claims that it will match me with something of the same skill level, well that’s just bogus. Once I got into the 400s and above it would consistently match me with players that were 50 percent higher levels than me and it only got worse when I started getting close to 1000. I almost never played match when I was the higher level, but somehow everyone I would play was getting lucky that I was such a lower level than they that it would kick me back to the cheaper games where I would have to grind to get back to the more expensive ones. I was constantly having to take on guys that had more experience and better clubs and balls than me and it was very frustrating. I got to the point where I was almost level 1000 with over half a million in coins and I played back to back to back games where the other player was way higher causing me to lose all but 17k in coins and kicking me back to level 700. I’m done with the game, the algorithm for the match-ups is always in favor of the other players and I’m sick of having to grind my way up against players higher ranked than me. If it was a mixture of higher and lower I wouldn’t be so upset, but out of all the games I played I probably played over 90 percent of the players were substantially higher levels than me. That made for a trash gaming experience.

I’ve played this game for a considerable length of time and one thing has never changed. The connection glitches in this software have always been present and frequent. I’ve been playing long enough that I’ve won hundreds off billions on this game and in the most recent major tournament, a software glitch (disconnection issue) cost me a top 10 finish. Was 3 feet from the pin for eagle when Golf Clash decides to disconnect me, not allowing me to finish the hole, then automatically posting a birdie which caused me to go from 6th place to 19th. Over the past few years of playing, I’ve seen it over and over. Also, the support team always gives the same crap for addressing issues such as this. If you want frustration, this is your game. Which brings me to my second fact.
After you play a while and increase your clubs and balls, it is quite evident that many times Golf Clash plays favorites with their GC100 player especially. They choose a winner before the hole starts and then do everything they can to make sure that player wins. Support even told me one time (probably by mistake) that they changed the wind between players to encourage creativity in shot making. It’s really quite evident when you get to certain levels of play the game as many call it, is rigged to the betterment of the players they choose to win.
I’ve played a lot and will continue to play, but if you want to enjoy this game, don’t get too deep in it, it will disappoint.