This month, MEGHANN O’NEILL got unreasonably obsessed with golf and plants. Luckily, vast adventures were to follow, in procedurally generated lands. It’s great that some indie games focus on one thing, others are expansive, and many are a combination, depending on which elements of gameplay and aesthetics are under investigation. Scope is further confused when you realise a game only about golf is impossibly large, or that a game only about plants has a complex political backstory, or that your massive world is really just about the small and finite love between a band of ultimately forgettable people. We hope you find as much, or as little, as what you’re looking for, within.
BRENDAN KEOGH’S PUTTING CHALLENGE
DEVELOPER Mellow Games PRICE $1-4.50 + DLC AVAILABILITY Released WEBSITE https://brkeogh.itch.io/brendan-keoghs-putting-challenge
Golf. The only thing worse than golf are golf video games games, amirite? Party Golf was OK, only because it was excessively colourful and allowed you to play with bananashaped balls. In a very “party”-averse fashion (although this can certainly be multiplayer), Brendan Keogh’s Putting Challenge doubles down on golf’s more tedious qualities and, somehow, I absolutely love it. I’ve played some golf. Mostly, I’ve done an inordinate amount of walking around, usually to go back to the shop to get more balls after losing balls in a lake, or on pixel art.
My husband told me he lost all his balls IRL, when he was playing golf in Orange with his mates. It’s a game that
