Well, I beat Desert Golfing. (Spoilers!)

[transience]

After 3 or 4 years, I've finally reached the promised land.

This is somewhere between hole 21700 and 21800 - I wasn't watching closely, just doing my long-standing nightly routine of banging out a few shots before bed. You hit the ball into the water, and...

Nothing. It doesn't respawn. Close the game and reopen it and I'm still here. The permanence of Desert Golfing never stops. I literally cannot play this game anymore, a game I paid for. I could delete and reinstall it, of course, and I'm seriously considering it. I can't bring myself to do it though. There's some weird kind of gaming accomplishment here that I feel like I need to preserve on my phone for as long as I have it.

I have a weird sense of loss about finally finishing this game after 4 years. I've done some math and I think I spent about 300-400 hours idly golfing in the desert. When I first got here, my heart literally jumped, like I had discovered some magic secret that very few people are supposed to see. I'm even hesitating posting it here just because of the time invested.

Man, I love Desert Golfing and I couldn't tell you exactly why.

 

[Purdy]

That's awesome.

Think I did a few hundred holes whilst on the toilet the past year, great game.

 

[Patrick Klepek]

This is incredible.

 

[Cloud-Hidden]

Congratulations, OP. It all led to this. What will you play now?

 

[RyougaSaotome]

Well shit. =0

 

[TheMoon]

You mad person!

 

[Bear]

Hell yes. I love the finality.

 

[Smoshow]

I always thought this game would have a frog fractions type twist at the end.

 

[transience]

Congratulations, OP. It all led to this. What will you play now?

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This is a huge problem! I guess I could ask for recommendations here. I don't really play mobile games.. like, game games. I mostly play things that I can play for a minute or two here and there. I have these requirements:

* Needs to load instantly upon opening
* Needs some level of permanence, i.e. I can close the app on a second's notice and pick up where I left off
* Needs to be playable with the sound off

My go-to for the last couple of days has just been my Sudoku app, or playing Chess against a CPU. Anyone else have any thoughts?

 

[Wowfunhappy]

8|

...I thought the levels in this game were procedurally generated...

 

[Jaypah]

Well I'll be. Congrats OP, you deserve that...water place thing.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

This is a huge problem! I guess I could ask for recommendations here. I don't really play mobile games.. like, game games. I mostly play things that I can play for a minute or two here and there. I have these requirements:

* Needs to load instantly upon opening
* Needs some level of permanence, i.e. I can close the app on a second's notice and pick up where I left off
* Needs to be playable with the sound off

My go-to for the last couple of days has just been my Sudoku app, or playing Chess against a CPU. Anyone else have any thoughts?

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Threes is incredible.

 

[RM8]

You can always buy a separate smartphone for Desert Golfing.

 

[Deleted member 1722]

Wow dude!! This is outrageous.

 

[transience]

Threes is incredible.

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Oh yeah, Threes was in my rotation for a long time too. I got bored of it after about a year or so though, probably because I suck at it. I've gotten a 768, like, twice out of probably a thousand attempts.

 

[Molemitts]

wow I didn't even know this was a thing.

This game is so weird and wonderful.

 

[timmbp]

Your famous now.

 

[Deleted member 11976]

OP found water in the desert. Nice.

 

[chronomac]

Pretty cool accomplishment, if I do say so.

My go-to for the last couple of days has just been my Sudoku app, or playing Chess against a CPU. Anyone else have any thoughts?

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Even though it's not really updated anymore, Drop7's fantastic and so is Flipflop Solitaire. You really can't go wrong with Zach Gage's work.

 

[Einbroch]

incoming kotaku article

 

[Deleted member 2752]

This is a huge problem! I guess I could ask for recommendations here. I don't really play mobile games.. like, game games. I mostly play things that I can play for a minute or two here and there. I have these requirements:

* Needs to load instantly upon opening
* Needs some level of permanence, i.e. I can close the app on a second's notice and pick up where I left off
* Needs to be playable with the sound off

My go-to for the last couple of days has just been my Sudoku app, or playing Chess against a CPU. Anyone else have any thoughts?

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Take a look at Hoplite, I think it fits all criteria

 

[DrFunk]

OP's name is justified

That's awesome

 

[MrPanic]

There's a ending to Desert Golf?!?! I feel like the world is a lie now.

Good job dude, looks like I still got some ways to go.

 

[Deleted member 9317]

OP should become the POTUS. Congrats!

 

[transience]

OP should become the POTUS. Congrats!

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You just made me feel so much worse!

I'll check out some of these recs. Thanks all.

 

[RM8]

OP, has your smartphone been blessed by The Battle of Polytopia?

 

[Thatguy]

*golf clap*

 

[Tagyhag]

Wow, hats off to you OP. I gave up in the 1000's.

This is incredible.

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Hah, I was wondering if you were going to comment on this.

Are you still playing?

 

[Tuna]

This is inspiring! I'm only at like hole 5000 or so. Desert Golfing is probably my favorite phone game.

 

[Praxis]

No screenshot?

 

[grmlin]

Wow. I had no idea

 

[janusff]

That's actually a great way to end the game.

 

[Protome]

I didn't think there was an actual ending to it, that's brilliant.

 

[Leafhopper]

Can someone reupload OPs images to imgur or something I would love to see but Twitter is blocked at work lol.

 

[Palette Swap]

Whoa.
I don't think you're meant to do that lol.

 

[Praxis]

Can someone reupload OPs images to imgur or something I would love to see but Twitter is blocked at work lol.

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Oh, usually I can see the failed to load message (Samsung browser), but I can't in the op. Disregard my previous post op.

 

[Kalor]

I didn't expect it to have a hard end. That's pretty cool though.

 

[transience]

Can someone reupload OPs images to imgur or something I would love to see but Twitter is blocked at work lol.

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https://i.imgur.com/AGim2zf.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jOratyN.jpg

 

[Leafhopper]

Oh, usually I can see the failed to load message (Samsung browser), but I can't in the op. Disregard my previous post op.

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Yeah I right clicked on the broken image for me and opened in a new tab and saw it was twitter and was like "Oh"

https://i.imgur.com/AGim2zf.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jOratyN.jpg

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Thanks! That's nuts to actually see the ending of this.

 

[Saucycarpdog]

This is a huge problem! I guess I could ask for recommendations here. I don't really play mobile games.. like, game games. I mostly play things that I can play for a minute or two here and there. I have these requirements:

* Needs to load instantly upon opening
* Needs some level of permanence, i.e. I can close the app on a second's notice and pick up where I left off
* Needs to be playable with the sound off

My go-to for the last couple of days has just been my Sudoku app, or playing Chess against a CPU. Anyone else have any thoughts?

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-twofold inc.
-Trick Shot
-You Must Build A Boat

 

[Praxis]

Thanks for uploading the images. That's a really cool end to the game.

 

[Fat4all]

Congratulations.

I hope to reach the ocean someday.

 

[Gylgamesh]

Part of me hopes there actually is a hole under the water there somewhere and you just have to randomly find it.

 

[TheYanger]

This is kind of nuts. and awesome.

 

[Ravelle]

incoming kotaku article

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Or Waypoint since Patrick dropped by. ;P

 

[RecRoulette]

That's awesome.

 

[Eolz]

Wow. I didn't expect this.
edit: and I'm glad there's no dumb/pretentious message too.

 

[SteveWinwood]

This is a huge problem! I guess I could ask for recommendations here. I don't really play mobile games.. like, game games. I mostly play things that I can play for a minute or two here and there. I have these requirements:

* Needs to load instantly upon opening
* Needs some level of permanence, i.e. I can close the app on a second's notice and pick up where I left off
* Needs to be playable with the sound off

My go-to for the last couple of days has just been my Sudoku app, or playing Chess against a CPU. Anyone else have any thoughts?

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get into crosswords

nyt crossword app is great and has a bunch of free ones to try out

 

[saenima]

I got to around hole 2000 i think before i quit. I commend you OP.

I like the simplicity and the finality of it.

 

[Fireblend]

Is that score cumulative? Did you have a score of less than 65,536 before the game locked like that, by any chance? :P