Golf Club Nostalgia (formerly known as “Golf Club: Wasteland”) is a very atmosferic and a very good casual/puzzle game, developed by Untold Tales. Humanity has failed and everyone is dead, except for the filthy ones who survived and are now living on Mars. You play the role of a researcher who helped building the escape plan and who returns to a ruined Earth which has been transformed into a golf course. You shoot your ball, you aim for the par and you encounter a great story in between.
Besides the cyberpunkish neon post-apocalyptical world, the mood of the game is given by the great soundtrack and dialogue, in the form of a tightbeam radio show called “Radio Nostalgia from Mars” playing music and interviews of people reminiscing about life on Earth that’s being listened by the main character. It also tells the bleak story of barely living on Mars and its downsides.
The gameplay is nothing special, just aim-and-shoot golfing with some obstacles, but the story itself, the level design and the soundtrack are the things that make this game stand out. It’s pretty fast to finish it on the “story” mode, but it can get pretty frustrating and annoying at times. However, the other aspects of the game make it worth it. Play it on the plane, on the train, you should be finished in a few hours. Four joysticks!
