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Cursed to Golf
Developer Chuhai Labs
Cursed to Golf is a 2022 roguelike video game developed by Chuhai Labs and published by Thunderful Publishing. Based on an itch.io demo created two years earlier, it was released for Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch. The player plays as a golfer in Golf Purgatory, which they have to escape by completing eighteen randomly-selected holes in a specific number of… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
270 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 20, 2026 · last updated Oct 21, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
116 positive · 70 negative
95% range 55–69%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 116 | 70 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 23 | 3 | 33 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 14 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
415 of 579 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
62% recommend · 118 yes, 72 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 190 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (587 of 812 positive).
Players praise the unique mix of golf and roguelike genres. [1][2][3] Some find the game frustrating due to difficulty and lack of progression. [4][5][6]
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Representative posts
- [4]
Despite getting this on sale, I wouldn't recommend it. There's zero meaningful game progression in-between runs, which combined with fairly repetitive and punishing gameplay meant the game stopped being fun fast. I did 2 runs and lost on the third boss, but don't think I'll try again any time soon.
- [5]
The music is decent pretty good and the premise is ok. Like other reviewers, I found the game to be punishing to the point of undermining any fun to be had. It's not just "test your mettle" punishing-- which appeals to many (but not all) gamers, to be sure. It's a lot of, "Oh! That's what that does!" in a game with very little opportunity to practice or redo anything. So, if you like exploratory runs in …
- [1]
I definitely recommend the game, although oddly the first playthrough is the worst playthrough, because the boss levels are a pretty big wall. After winning, the bosses don't show up throughout the run, which is a lot more chill and a lot more enjoyable. Solid game overall.
- [7]
The gameplay can be fun and the music is great, but the game is rather unbalanced. Either you abuse the pins and make most of it trivial or you don't use the pins and bosses become blatantly unfair, nvm the rng on lvls sometimes. A game like this needs a really fine line to feel challenging and rewarding. Losing to stuff that is out of your control isn't part of that. I am still going to recommend it despite its …
- [2]
This was a fun little game! I can totally recommend this! You play golf with lots of twists and different abilities in a 2d setting. It is a roguelike game, so you always start from the beginning, if you've failed, but the bosses you only gotta beat once and they'll give you permanent powers. You'll be using cards to give yourself abilities, from flying a bit, to having multiple tries for a shot, or multiple shots …
Summarised from 34 of the 279 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Cursed to Golf sits at 62% positive across 186 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Cursed to Golf received "generally favorable" reviews for most platforms according to review aggregator Metacritic; the PlayStation 5 version received "mixed or average" reviews. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 67% of critics. Prior to its launch, Cursed to Golf had been described as "the Dark Souls of golf" due to its difficulty. Critics universally noted this difficulty, though viewed it differently: some, like Graham Banas of Push Square, found the difficulty curve to be "satisfying", while others, like Eurogamer Italy's Simone Cantini, thought the game to be unnecessarily frustrating. Polygon reviewer Russ…
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Reactions
60 of 270 · most liked first[Prime/GOG] Prime games that I do not wish to claim for myself. I got Amazon Prime Gaming for free for a month. I claimed a few games I liked but there were many that I didn't want. So, I am giving away some GOG keys. Here's a list of games I haven't claimed: - [Hell Pie](https://www.gog.com/en/game/hell_pie) - [Cursed to Golf](https://www.gog.com/en/game/cursed_to_golf) - ~~[9 Years of Shadows](https://www.gog.com/en/game/9_years_of_shadows)~~ GONE -…
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, in cool shit I totally forgot 😅 Cursed to Golf is one of the first ever titles to be given away in Nintendo's new "Game Trials". You can play the entire game for free if you have NSO. Try it out! (Then buy it at 75% off lol).
neutral · AI labelView post →Today marks the official 2-year anniversary of Cursed To Golf! In celebration, here's the very first mockup I drew for the game when I was asked to make pixel art for it. A whole lot of things changed in the final but some things like the golf ball moon were there right from the start.
neutral · AI labelView post →Are the people who made Cursed To Golf on here? I’m having a blast with this game. A fucking golf roguelike?? Incredible. It’s free in the PS+ game catalog!
positive · AI labelView post →Mark Hamill helped do a promo video for Cursed to Golf years ago, and hearing Luke Skywalker (be paid to) talk about your game is one of the coolest fucking things ever. ☺️
neutral · AI labelView post →[Epic Games] | Cursed to Golf | 100% Off/Giveaway.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ended up checking out how well Cursed to Golf ran on Switch 2 over the weekend. Ran really well, but not only that I played an entire run through... man, hindsight really is 20:20. I haven't checked it out since I left to start Denki. But, it really is a neat little game, proud of what it became 😊
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 4th anniversary to the little Golf Game that could, the world’s first GOLFLIKE and my little son, Cursed to Golf 😊 You’re not perfect, but I loved creating and working on you. youtu.be/jjF3RKkJA2M?...
positive · AI labelView post →Despite getting this on sale, I wouldn't recommend it. There's zero meaningful game progression in-between runs, which combined with fairly repetitive and punishing gameplay meant the game stopped being fun fast. I did 2 runs and lost on the third boss, but don't think I'll try again any time soon.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PSA: August PS+ Extra/Premium titles are now rolling out. PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August 2023 will be available today Tuesday 15th August. Sea of Stars will be available when it launches on 29th August. **PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium | Game Catalog** Sea of Stars | PS4, PS5 Moving Out 2 | PS4, PS5 Destiny 2: The Witch Queen | PS4, PS5 Lost Judgment | PS4, PS5 Destroy All Humans 2 Reprobed | PS4, PS5 Two Point Hospital: Jumbo Edition | PS4 Source of Madness | PS4, PS5…
neutral · AI labelView post →This is not a golf game, it is a puzzle game. It is also not a roguelike, as much as it seems to want to make itself one. There are cards that you have to use in order to actually progress and there are these pins that affect things long-term, but that is about it. There is only a driver, an iron, and a wedge. The game is LONG, SLOW, and overall very unenjoyable. Not recommended, but I'd love to see a different stab at the idea with better implementation and getting rid of the puzzle aspect of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Also if you disagree that’s fine dialogue is important to that maturity. Reminds me when a game dev podcast didn’t have us as a guest after Cursed to Golf because one of the hosts “hated it”. That would make for a great episode to me! I’d learn where I went wrong & get to discuss my design choices
neutral · AI labelView post →The novelty of a 2D golf game makes this fun at first sight but this novelty wears off extremely fast. The limited vision makes the driver incredibly unfun to use. Apart from that, you never have enough strokes to make it to the hole so you always rely on good ace card drops which is an insanely unfun gimmick.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not really into it, it feels like it's trying to be something it shouldn't and just comes off as overbloated and in gameplay.. unfun. It works fine on steam deck and can be picked up easily, but I didn't find much reason to want to play after going through a couple hours sadly. The OST is sick though
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is absolutely my thing but I can't recommend it, which is sad because it could be a solid 8/9 with a couple minor tweaks. The biggest problem is the game not being sure if it wants to be golf game or a golf puzzle game. The puzzle formula requires a bunch of specific tweaks to the standard golf rules, and this game implements about half of them which makes it extremely frustrating to play. The biggest issue is the driver hitting with so much force that the shot prediction goes outside of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Woah, I literally never post any reviews, but this game is definitely something else. The graphics and the whole idea, powers and stuff are incredible... but everything else is HORRENDOUS. From menus, to never ending dialogues and tutorials, controls in the menus (you fast forward dialogues with space bar, something important pops up and you instantly skip it because its the same keybind), level design, camera, balance, frustrating and unfair mechanics... ALL. Feels like the devs didn't play a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The music is decent pretty good and the premise is ok. Like other reviewers, I found the game to be punishing to the point of undermining any fun to be had. It's not just "test your mettle" punishing-- which appeals to many (but not all) gamers, to be sure. It's a lot of, "Oh! That's what that does!" in a game with very little opportunity to practice or redo anything. So, if you like exploratory runs in rogue(like/lite)s that require you to invest a ton of time in failure to learn a solid win…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like Cursed to Golf but this game is just tedious. It’s not a roguelike, it’s a physics puzzle game that makes you beat the whole game without failing. There’s nothing about roguelikes here that makes them interesting. Instead you’re left with kinda procgen levels and…that’s about it? And the game is DULL. Characters blabber endlessly about nothing as the devs want you to watch the same “quirky” animations over and over and over again. For a game where each run could take hours…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I definitely recommend the game, although oddly the first playthrough is the worst playthrough, because the boss levels are a pretty big wall. After winning, the bosses don't show up throughout the run, which is a lot more chill and a lot more enjoyable. Solid game overall.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like most others said. Dead Cells and Binding of Isaac are the top dogs. No matter what else I play I always circle back to one of those two eventually and get sucked in again. But some other lesser known ones that are good are: Cursed to Golf - 2d golfing roguelike, no combat or anything. There’s a bunch of different cards to make the ball do different stuff. From a rocket ball you control after hitting to an ice ball that’ll freeze water hazards to a drill so you can tunnel through walls.…
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey hey 👋 😄 You can get 300 Platinum Points just by playing the free game trials this week! So far Cursed to Golf is pretty fun ⛳ I'm saving up for an Echoes of Wisdom tote bag 🤓 #NintendoSwitch #MyNintendo
positive · AI labelView post →I can't even see where my shot will go, should I risk a shot to get a shortcut? Who knows, I can't even tell of the shot is possible. Just allow me to zoom out so I can see where the ball will land, this is ridiculous.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cute but torturous difficulty. Needs to have a codex of what each card does. It also needs to have more Roguelite elements to permanently upgrade abilities, not just cards. If you want to torture yourself with zero progression, go ahead. But this one wasn't for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Epic] Cursed to Golf. Roguelike golf indie for Windows, free on Epic Games until 28th December
neutral · AI labelView post →Cursed to Golf looks great and plays fine, but it's just not fun. The art direction is well done. It follows a cutesy approach with detailed and polished designs and animations. Menus and UI are all coherent but feel like they are missing a touch here and there. Some interactions with level elements are not as obvious or explained as they should be. Character design also looks really good. Gameplay is subpar, I guess. I can't quite put my finger on what makes the game so unfun, but the main…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/10 i really like minigolf games and have played over 1000 hours of them + art + music - gameplay - story could be shorter and better. walls of text when you dont need it - horrible UI - what are these controls? - 20$
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finally picked up Balatro and Cursed to Golf, so that is what I will be playing in between freelance jobs over the holidays. Cursed to Golf is fun & harder than I expected, and Balatro is fun & easier than I expected.
positive · AI labelView post →Speaking about coincidences | KAMGUSTA's MINI REVIEW 1 year after the release of Golf Club Nostalgia, here comes a 2D game of golf with an arcade gameplay, different obstacles and roguelike elements. While Golf Club Nostalgia was nice, smooth and polished, this one is rough and not as fun and interesting. The difficulty balancing is poor, as oftentimes you won't have enough shots to reach the par. The way the game manages the map combined with an ineffective zoom doesn't help. Only for fans of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended BUT to get on sale. At the original price point it is quite of a high price. The game itself can be fun if you have the right expectations for it. It is a nice combination of genres and can be fun to pick up for a run from time to time. The game itself is challenging and took me 3 rounds to get the hang of it to start progressing properly.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here's my second #NintendoSwitch #indiegame highlight for today! 🎮👍🏼 Game - Cursed to Golf Developer - @chuhailabs.com Publisher - @thunderfulgames.bsky.social Release date - August 18, 2022
neutral · AI labelView post →Why the ♥♥♥♥ is the tutorial so long? I mean like 90% of it is characters talking or some kind of weird exposition. It could be so much better if 15 minutes into a game you're not stuck in some wack-o tutorial. Not really a rouge-lite either. I paid 2 bucks. I'm not going to refund, there was effort put into this, but damn some of the design decisions are just weird.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Prime/GOG] Cursed to Golf. 2D golf roguelike for Windows, free on GOG for Amazon Prime subscribers until 11th December. I grabbed it when it was [free on Epic last year](https://feddit.uk/post/6056505) and it's pretty good fun, though the difficulty is all over the place and it can be pretty buggy! >Cursed to Golf offers a fresh take on the golfing and roguelike subgenres. Make your way through a hole within the PAR Count or your curse will take you back to the beginning of the course! To add…
neutral · AI labelView post →⚔️ Minecraft Dungeons 🧩 A Little To The Left ⛳ Cursed to Golf #NintendoSwitchOnline members can play this trio of titles for free with Game Trials starting this Wednesday, October 23rd!
neutral · AI labelView post →Very fun, negative reviews are people that suck ass at the game, you can practice at any shop to test ace cards and obstacles and avoid wasting shots on things you don't know how to handle.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Four years. We still can't quite believe it. Thank you to everyone who picked up Cursed to Golf back then, and to everyone still playing it today. You kept this little game going far longer than we ever expected it to. From all of us at Chuhai Labs ⛳ store.steampowered.com/app/1726120/...
neutral · AI labelView post →𝔻𝕦𝕕𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔾𝕠𝕝𝕗, 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕙𝕖'𝕤 𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪 𝔾𝕠𝕝𝕗 𝕚𝕟 ℍ𝔼𝕃𝕃! Cursed to Golf is the kind of game that looks very straightforward at first glance; hit the ball, get it to the hole to clear the level. Sounds simple, right? Well, it's not, because to do that you'd have to take the longest path ever, twisting and turning as it unveils more mechanics, more tricks to put up your sleeve everytime you fail, and as it should be for this is the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A rouge lite that just ain't that fun. Also having rng power ups be the deciding factor of the late game is not good when the runs take more than an hour. It made even worse when you can get a bug where chests just straight up don't give you cards. overall 6/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay can be fun and the music is great, but the game is rather unbalanced. Either you abuse the pins and make most of it trivial or you don't use the pins and bosses become blatantly unfair, nvm the rng on lvls sometimes. A game like this needs a really fine line to feel challenging and rewarding. Losing to stuff that is out of your control isn't part of that. I am still going to recommend it despite its flaws, cause the artwork is lovely, the music alone is wroth it. Its a fun time…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great idea quickly turns into literal golf hell. Cannot recommend in current state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has a text book amount of rules. Your turn is the least important part with all the tons of extra modifiers added to try and keep it interesting I guess. Simply lob the ball through pixelated tunnels, but it's really frustrating when you get only a few tries before dying. Great concept, more like a table top board game or card deck style.... a total mess really, by difficult they mean poorly designed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish I was be able to enjoy this game, but it simply becomes painful after a while
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Steam] Thunderful Black Friday Bundle ($8.10 / 94% off). **Games in Bundle** - Cursed to Golf - Swordship - The Gunk - Togges - Wavetale - White Shadows
neutral · AI labelView post →Super fun and challenging. Don't listen to the negative comments, they just suck. Definitely show this game some love.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a fun little game! I can totally recommend this! You play golf with lots of twists and different abilities in a 2d setting. It is a roguelike game, so you always start from the beginning, if you've failed, but the bosses you only gotta beat once and they'll give you permanent powers. You'll be using cards to give yourself abilities, from flying a bit, to having multiple tries for a shot, or multiple shots while in the air to reach completely new places! Even digging through walls and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Personally, I really liked getting into it but seeing as when i tried to save there was no save option and it threw me back to hole 1, tells me this was a waste of my time if you are going to make a game that has special cards that are random upon getting them from booster packs etc, then best to let us save the game so we don't have to lose everything and start from scratch
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a big lover of golf and roguelike games, I really wanted to like this, and I usually dismiss the other kind of negative reviews that talk about bad design decisions or a lack of a tutorial or difficulty as people being salty, but I can really see the problem here. This game has great presentation, the concept is great and it should be everything I love, but my god, so many terrible design choices here, and the fact that this game has gotten so many updates without any of these glaringly bad…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ain't no way I've just seen one of the best indie art directions (audio and visual) ever, and its in a golf roguelike. Buy Cursed to Golf on steam, this game is gorgeous AND SCOTTISH (also it's in a criminally low sale)
positive · AI labelView post →Such a fun game and I don't even like golf. Definitely not always easy, so if you bought it for your kids, you're probably going to sit up playing it yourself :D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My new GoG Giveaway is for Cursed to Golf and Hell Pie! -Follow/Repost/Like. -Post the cover of the last videogame you played. -Write the game you want. Good luck! #videogames #giveaway #gog
neutral · AI labelView post →Minecraft Dungeons, A Little To The Left, and Cursed to Golf will be offered as Europe's next Switch Game Trials in a few days! nintendowire.com/guides/switc...
neutral · AI labelView post →I was not expecting to enjoy a 2D roguelike golf game this much. The music is not bad at all, and the graphics brings back nostalgic feelings from the past, from the gameboy advance era
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it was fine, it got kind of boring though. maybe i'm just not that into the randomness that comes with golfing like this. i still like it enough to not have refunded it. (20 dollars is way too much, buy it on sale) unlike with other roguelikes there's really no reason to try again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I forgot to post these, but part of my BitSummit involved a trip to Chuhai Labs themselves! They were the developers of Cursed to Golf that I worked with, and I got to add my signature to the poster they had up for the game. Very awesome to finally see it all in person :D
neutral · AI labelView post →Lost in Cult has launched its indie game soundtrack vinyl label - beginning with breakout hit Cursed to Golf, available to preorder now 🎶:
neutral · AI labelView post →The core gameplay is great if u like golfing games. Couple of bugs which are really annoying like bugged empty shops or just being unable to swing. These have been reported months ago, but still not fixed. The lackluster roguelike mechanics don't really excite the roguelike/roguelite addict in me. Overall not worth the pricetag.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here is my summary of Cursed to Golf: The gameplay feels good and rather responsive. However, each hole is really quite hard. You get a set number of hits before you fail, and if you fail you go all the way back to hole one. Each set of four holes increases the difficulty and adds nearly impossible challenge. You do get golf abilities to help give you an edge; however, these aren't handed out as freely as I'd hope. Yet the game seems to focus most on memorizing courses and optimizing pathing.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's more of a puzzle game with a golf aesthetic on top. WAY too much story. The cut scenes are endless and frankly annoying. I'm glad you can skip them but they just never seem to end. If you like golf games, you will not like this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun golf game. Wish it wasnt a roguelike though and had regular levels instead. Good steam deck game as you can just pick this up and play a run.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Select game soundtracks are free to claim on Bandcamp as part of the Halloween Sale on Epic. - [Aerial_Knight's Never Yield](https://aerialknight.bandcamp.com/album/aerial-knights-never-yield-original-game-soundtrack) - [Art of Rally](https://tatreal.bandcamp.com/album/art-of-rally-original-soundtrack) - [Cursed to Golf](https://marksparling.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-to-golf-original-soundtrack) - [Love](https://loveplus.bandcamp.com/album/love-ost) - [PC Building Simulator…
neutral · AI labelView post →Destiny 2 DLC, Destroy All Humans and Moving Out 2 are the main ones for me. Maybe try Cursed to Golf as well.
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