Golf With Your Friends

Golf With Your Friends is a hugely popular, frantic, and highly customizable multiplayer mini-golf game developed by Blacklight Interactive and published by Team17. Released fully in 2020 after a successful Early Access period, the game is renowned for taking the calm, calculated sport of putting and transforming it into a chaotic, physics-bending party experience for up to 12 players simultaneously.

The core objective is simple: get your ball into the hole in the fewest strokes possible. However, the game encourages anything but patience and proper etiquette, particularly when certain rules are enabled.

Courses and Creativity

The game features an array of official 18-hole courses, each set in a vibrant and imaginative environment that introduces unique, often outlandish, obstacles:

• Themed Courses: Players can navigate the traps of Pirate Cove, slingshot around black holes in the Space Station, avoid bombs on the Worms course, or brave the moving parts of Candyland.

• Customization: Beyond the official levels, the PC version features a Level Editor with Steam Workshop integration, allowing players to create and share an endless stream of community-made maps, drastically extending the game's longevity.

Game Modes and Modifiers

The true chaos of Golf With Your Friends lies in its robust set of customizable game modes and modifiers, turning a standard round into an all-out battle:

• Classic Mode: The traditional race to the hole with the lowest score.

• Dunk Mode: Replaces the hole with a basketball net and gives the ball a jump ability, changing the game into a high-flying, hoop-shooting challenge.

• Hockey Mode: Swaps the ball for a puck and the hole for a goal guarded by a cardboard goalie.

• Custom Modifiers: Players can introduce game-changing effects like low gravity, randomized ball shapes (acorns, cubes, etc.), and, most importantly, ball collision. Enabling collision allows players to actively sabotage opponents by knocking their balls off the course or into hazards.

Power-Ups and Personalization

To further the mayhem, power-ups can be collected on the course:

• Snap Freeze: Instantly stops your ball, even mid-air.

• Honey Trap: Lays down sticky honey to drastically slow down opponents.

• Randomizer: Changes the shape of other players' balls, making their next shot completely unpredictable.

Players can also personalize their golf ball with numerous cosmetic items, including hats (like sombreros or headgear from The Escapists), trails, and floaties, adding a layer of personality to the chaotic proceedings. Golf With Your Friends is fundamentally a party game; it thrives on groups of friends simultaneously racing, sabotaging, and laughing their way through increasingly difficult, ridiculous courses.