Cursed to Golf is a pretty good game of golf. It’s 2D and side-on, so aiming is simplified, and once you’ve selected your club from a limited range, it’s one click for power and then another for the angle and you’re off!
Cursed to GolfPublisher: Thunderful PublishingDeveloper: Chuhai LabsPlatform: Played on PCAvailability: Out soon on PC, Switch and Xbox
But that’s not the entirety of it. Really it’s just the start. Because in Cursed to Golf you’re dead – is it a spoiler to say you die halfway through the tutorial? – and your mission is to play your way out of golfing purgatory.
This is a clever game, I reckon. A spin on a platformer that feels nothing like a platformer. It turns out that purgatory golf holes are They zig-zag up and down, so the fairway you want to land on with your first shot might be below you. Or it might be blocked off by TNT. Or a fan might push the ball out of the way.
In the recent Steam demo I had a chance to try all of this out. I navigated the hurdles as best I could, starting at a tee off that was high, high above the hole I was aiming for. I had five shots to get there, but it wasn’t possible. Instead I could earn more shots by knocking over little Oscar statuettes as I went.