Tee Time Golf

My first thought loading this up was: decent bones, real question marks. Tee Time Golf is a small-studio golf game that does a few things the bigger names do not - specifically, it lets a VR player and a flat-screen player sit in the same 8-person online lobby and actually compete together, which is genuinely rare and, when it works, is the game's best feature. You get stroke play, a Last Golfer Standing elimination mode where the highest scorer per hole gets knocked out, and a practice mode. The swing mechanics run two routes: a classic three-button timing system or a thumbstick pull-and-push method that, if you find the right rhythm, gives you workable shot shaping - pull direction sets curve, push timing sets power, and wind is left to you to account for manually. Neither system is deep enough to satisfy anyone who came from a sim-style golf game, but the accessibility is clearly intentional and it does make 8-player online sessions move quickly without someone getting stuck on controls. The XP and coin progression adds light texture. You unlock Pro tees as you level up, earn coins to customise your golfer's outfit and gear, and hole difficulty factors into your XP reward so a birdie on a brutal par 4 actually means something. The bot challenge ladder gives solo players a structured target: 50-odd challenges, escalating bot opponents, with the early and mid-tier bots feeling fair and genuinely useful for grinding your handicap down before you embarrass yourself online. The late-game special bosses are a different story. Community feedback has flagged those final two as effectively unbeatable by design, with perfect stats and punishing shot penalties on any imperfect swing. It's a frustrating dead end for achievement hunters and a design choice that feels like it was never revisited. The course designer is the wildcard. It's legitimately substantial for an indie release - you can shape entire landmasses, place structures and trees, adjust elevation, set tee block themes, and share the finished product publicly. There is a Steam community guide dedicated entirely to mastering it. For a certain type of player, this is the whole game. For everyone else, it's a nice extra that extends shelf life well past the 8 official 18-hole courses. Here is the problem you cannot ignore in 2025: this game has been in Early Access since August 2018 and Steam flags the last developer update as over five years ago. The roadmap promised new game modes and a full multiplayer infrastructure overhaul. None of that landed. The game is frozen at what it was around 2019, which means the online player pool is thin, the promised modes never arrived, and there is zero expectation of further development. The 79 percent positive rating across 163 Steam reviews tells you the people who bought it mostly enjoyed what was there - but that rating was built on a game that was still moving. What you are buying today is the stopped clock version. VR and flat-screen crossplay in an 8-player lobby with a working course editor is genuinely a good pitch. The stalled development and ghost-town online population are not. Fred, Scout Team