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Desert Golfing

A minimalist golf game designed for touch screen mobile platforms.

90 6 August 2014

Desert Golfing is an arcade developed by Captain Games, released 6 August 2014 on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Desert Golfing is

Desert Golfing is an arcade game developed by Captain Games and released in 2014. It is available on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Desert Golfing is a minimalist golf video game developed and published by Canadian indie studio Blinkbat Games, designed by Justin Smith, and released on August 6, 2014, for iOS and Android, and on December 19, 2017, for Windows and macOS. It received a positive reception from critics for its addictive gameplay and simplicity. In July 2020, Smith, now operating under the studio name Captain Games, released a follow-up titled Golf on Mars, featuring new control options and course generation variety.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Desert Golfing holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 95% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.0GHz, 128 MB RAM and 128MB. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Desert Golfing launched on 6 August 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux and Metro Redux. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Metro Redux.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Desert Golfing — frequently asked questions

When did Desert Golfing come out?
Desert Golfing was released on 6 August 2014 for Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Desert Golfing?
At minimum, Desert Golfing needs 1.0GHz, 128 MB RAM, 128MB graphics, 2 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Desert Golfing?
The PC version needs about 0 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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