It's a beautifully done game, similar to the excellent Sid Meier's SimGolf but better in ways and worse in ways. If you liked SimGolf you'll like this a lot.

It's better because it's a far more streamlined experience than the old SimGolf - you know exactly what you have to do and it's a relaxing play - but it's also simpler and the difficulty calculations are based on how you've built the hole, not how the hole plays. I have a waterfront hole where the water doesn't come into play and the game thinks it's the most difficult hole. Still the calculations are at least straightforward and easy to understand.

Highly recommend.

Great:
No dumb graduated pricing on items (100,200,300,400,a bajillion)
No dumb impossible-to-satisfy visitors.
Very deep with the upgrades to everything from grass.
UI is great
Sound Effect fine
Music ....nice but loop is short..like 10 seconds? It goes get annoying.

Bad:
Moving/demolishing is clunky

When holding tournaments, like E Ranking, why do golfers with a A rating show up and destroy you? This makes no sense.

When holding tournaments, an NPC with 336 rating should not beat your S 521+ rating player. Why did I spend all those heart points training him? Fix it!

This is Tiger Woods showing up at a local outing at a Municipal Course in BFE, Nebraska.

No gophers
No caddy shack

As the name suggests, you can design your own golf club. If you're like me, you'll not realise the space you have to work with and only have 14 holes + 1 for character requests because you made some of the earlier holes too big. Enjoy the mandatory 2 real life day grind to get Kairobot to show up. What made this extra fun for me was designing the holes ... I did one like a smiley face and another like a wee willie winkie because I'm childish and it amused me.

Im number one!
Like this game a lot, had it on wish list from time of finding it. Its like simgolf and definitely fun thus far, very nice.
Very nice and so far not boring, for the little time thus far im definitely not disappointed and worth the money spent.

Pretty interesting game, no matter the simple setting of the golf company sim. I expected it to be more boring because golf looks pretty simple, but it is actually enjoyable.

The trait system from Dungeon Village 2 is in this game too. You can customize your holes with different traits by adding decorations and they affect unlocking new characters (if you advertise a hole once with some new traits as the highest) or are required to complete customers' tasks to promote them to bronze/silver/gold club members.

Economy as in most other kairosoft games is almost non-existant, you gain cash no matter what you do, but it is interesting to unlock all characters either through contests by making holes with traits preferable by the team or by advertising holes with the different highest traits. And then you train your club members so they can win tournaments, after which you cheer for your members but they keep throwing ball into the water which is no where on route to the hole (like at 90 degrees to the side).

Great game. Has everything I love about Kairosoft!

This game scores a hole in one, (pun intended), easily sitting near the top of the list of Kairosoft titles I’ve played. The loop is easy to understand, the hook is engaging, and the other elements gel together well, delivering an overall addicting experience. If you enjoy SimGolf, or Kairosoft, this is a must play.


🟩 Pros:

+ Music loop fits the relaxing nature of golf
+ Weather visuals were attractive to the eyes
+ Customer requests are obtainable without the use of ‘cheap’ tactics
+ Give lessons to customer to unlock items, improve their skills, and beat your rivals
+ Clubhouse facility management is simple and adds a much needed element outside of creating holes and improving customers
+ Large variety of decorations to unlock, each allowing you to create distinctly themed holes and discover combos for additional bonuses
+ Less intense on-screen notifications compared to other titles by Kairosoft

🟥 Cons:

- Too much focus on tournaments
- Customer skill doesn’t impact their performance as much as I’d like
- Contests appear to rely on RNG more so than skill, which negates a core element of the game (customer lessons)

🏷️ Suggestions:

~ Fast game speed from the beginning

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Forest Golf Planner from Kairosoft studio is another entry in a long line of meditative pixel business simulators.
This time we are presented with the opportunity to build, develop and manage your own golf club.
Even though this release isn't new, as the game was released on mobile devices in February 2022, it is new enough one Steam, so we won't touch on that.


Gameplay

We have to take the role of a golf club manager and lead it to the top or at least spend 16 in-game years.

You'll be tasked with:

- Building and designing golf courses.
- Running various competitions.
- Training clients.
- Finding advertisers.
- Fulfilling client requests.
- Management of your club in other ways.

At the start of the game there's only 10k dollars in your pocket and big ambitions on your mind. As with any game from Kairosoft, it's important not to waste money in the first hour of the game, buying whatever you can get your hands on.
Otherwise, there is a great chance that every financial quarter you will go into red. And it is difficult to get out of the red, so most likely you will have to start from scratch.
Trust me, I know from experience.

Every golf course can (and should) have its own theme. Especially since that's what customers want.
Some want a desert-themed golf course, so you have to put cacti, pyramids, sprinkle sand everywhere and paint the grass yellow.
Some people want more of a water themed course, so then you poke your mouse around the screen, placing water traps, coral reefs and everything like that.
At the same time, each element of decoration, not only increases the entrance fee, but also improves the appearance of the field, and sometimes adds difficulty.
And here's where it's important to strike a balance between the beauty of your design and the complexity of the golf course.
Your customers are not professionals (at least in the beginning) and if the difficulty will seem to high for them, then this golf course won't be popular and will only waste your money.
There are many mechanics of this kind in the game, but there is a separate tutorial for each of them, so you won't be lost.
As soon as the basic preparations are finished, begins the phase, where you will observe how well your system works.
There's also a five-star ranking system that'll keep you motivated. Each rank has five conditions, which, if met, will give you one star. By increasing your rank, you unlock new stores for the clubhouse, new courses and decor elements.

The best thing is thst any element of your design isn't permament and you can change it at any time (except when you are running a competition on a given course).

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Visuals

The pixel graphics and style of Kairosoft games have been consistent for many years and remains a hallmark of games from this developer.
It's always pleasing to the eye and never gets outdated.


Audio

Quite pleasant background music and minimalistic sounds are a great backdrop, but you can mute them and play something relaxing from your playlist.


Thoughts

It's probably worth saying that I've been a fan of Kairosoft's games for quite some time and love them a lot. So in a way, I'm biased.
Nevertheless, I really enjoyed the game. Visuals, audio, gameplay. I can't say anything bad about it.
I liked absolutely everything, except for maybe two little things.

1) When a new client appears in your club, the game shows a message that says: "A new client has appeared in your town". Town? You mean "club", right?
2) The back button doesn't take you back to the previous menu, it goes straight to the main gameplay screen.


Conclusion

A thoroughly enjoyable pixel business simulator that is extremely meditative once you get past the initial lack of money stage.
You'll surely get a couple of pleasant evenings out of this.

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