Last updated on November 30th, 2025 at 07:27 pm
Vista Golf – Sports Game Review
Vista Golf is a Sports/Casual game from Shallot Games, LLC., first launched in 26th July 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,443+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Vista Golf Stand Out
Vista Golf is a simple but elegant mini golf game, defined by crisp controls and the endless competition of new courses every week. We wanted to create the purest form of mini golf in your pocket, so if you seek both fun and frustration, Vista Golf is your game.
Infinite Mode: Relax and play as far as you'd like on our endless course.
Weekly Mode: Each week, compete for the top spot across three 9-hole courses. At the end of each week, three leaders are crowned, and three new courses will open.
Daily Mode: Every day, compete on a new super-challenging 3-hole course.
Features:
-Over 2 Billion holes!
-Compete across three weekly courses!
-Challenging daily courses!
-Cross-platform leaderboards!
-Achievements and unlockable badges!
-Simple drag-and-shoot controls!
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Vista Golf is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th October 2022
Recent improvements include:
-Fix level loading bugs
-Fix "Vista Golf's Pro Skater" achievement
Download & Availability
Vista Golf is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is our favorite golf game because its just golf theres beautiful graphics calm music nothing to distract you your just golfing we tryed a lot of golfing games this one is our favorite.
Seems ridiculously easy at first. But wait. If you persevere it will get hard. It is very chill and relaxing with great music.
Ive been playing this game on infinite mode for years. Its relaxing and challenging and every hole is brand new with par eventually getting up in the 25-40 range m, while still providing opportunities to score low. We think our best is a 2 on a par 42, lets call that a pterodactyl lol. This is pretty much the only game we play anymore. We have an embarrassing shot total of 125,595 but our overall score is 126,127 below par! Its an addictive game and Ill keep playing as long as its available.
Love this game, but would love to see a replay last shot feature.
Developers who developed this game are actually good at the square-like graphics. And especially the game itself is quality work. It kinda started to cure our boredom. We found this game on the AppStore while finding some golf games we might like. Still looking for some updates in the future.
Ive been looking for a relaxing mini golf game for years and have gone through 5 or 6. This game hits all the sweet spots for us in the infinite mode. Easy, intuitive controls, beautiful to look at and just challenging enough to keep you playing without being frustrating. Awesome job.
So relaxing, it really relieves stress.
After playing their other title, Tides, we gave Vista Golf a try and finally a single player game. It's not PvP or multiplayer. You don't have to earn coins to play a round or move to the next course. Yes, it's mini golf, not a full on golf course, but it's both easy to play and challenging. Some holes are simple, while others take some work to get through. Angles play a key role. And we're sure there are plenty of shortcuts using the banks, curves, and inclines to your advantage. There is a leader board, with daily/weekly challenges if you want. But, the infinite mode is one course after another. Not 9 rounds and start again, but different courses. It's quite impressive. This is another game that you can play for a couple of minutes or invest a few hours. It's a simple game with some excellent challenges. Well worth the very small price to remove ads.
Love the progressively challenging courses. Havent had any issues with the game. Some of the ads get hung up but we have found that is the case with most apps. Very enjoyablefive stars.
Whats the first level with a skateboard ramp thingy.
Loads of funeasy to useaddicting! Plus we can practice our speed and angle techniques anytime without waiting in lines or dodging weather. We particularly love the option of seeing through trees and rotating the course to get the best line of sight. Thanks for making this yall.
We honestly wouldnt know this game existed if not for the shallot games discord. The controls are pretty fluid, and the graphics and smooth and run well. We havent encountered any issues so far. Overall 5/5.
We love this game. Perfect for relaxing you just play and dont have to spend money to just have fun.
We kinda just wrote this so we could ask for some sort of indicator for the splits like maybe a white line where the split is so uh, yeah.
Im enjoying this casual and relaxing game, but we have a few suggestions to improve it. The aiming feature is frustrating because you have trouble seeing the number(power)youre going to hit the ball, because for some reason, its displayed under your finger. We would include a user interface option to move the number display so its easily visible. The circle around the ball should be adjustable as well. We know you can zoom out, but Ive hit a few shots on accident by trying to zoom out due to the circle size. Another possibility is to have the default starting zoom less than it is. Finally, the response is sluggish when moving the perspective. There is a lag when rotating the view. Please consider these suggestions. Thank you.
Enjoyable game to pass time. Enough levels to not get bored.
This is a great game to play whenever you want to relax or pass the time, our only issues are that it doesnt like to work when not connected to WiFi and you cant hit your ball if its in the way of a moving thing and you just have to wait to be knocked out if the way. Other than that great app.
We like that this app doesnt bombard you with a ton of ads like A LOT of other games do. The game play is easy to understand and there arent excessive gimmicks. We just want to play mini golf! Haha we didnt expect there to be so many levels! And we like there are new expiring weekly and daily courses to add even more variety. Why we didnt give a full 5 stars: Awesome there are so many varied courses. However, we do wish sometimes when a new level starts that the camera would begin fully zoomed out to show the entire course since they can be lengthy and go off screen. We find ourselves having to manually zoom and pan to see what Im up against. Also, its nice having the surrounding graphics become transparent when they obstruct views, but in some multilevel courses when the ball drops to the level below, the course doesnt change opacity and therefore we cant even tell where the ball is going, obstacles ahead or sometimes where the final hole is.
Ive played over 1000 times on indefinite mode and enjoy the daily and weekly challenges. Have every award except pro skater ??? (No idea how to obtain this one), any of the leader boards, and the mulligans. Frustrated about the leader boards though because we cannot figure out how Thompson and a few others can navigate those courses in 3 or 4 shots?? Wish we could figure out the trick to doing that consistently. (Would definitely be 5 star rating if there was some way to do that) There are a few that in can do in 3 but for the majority of the holes we score only a few shots under par. Will keep playing to see if there is some black hole that might lead to that secret. Thanks for a great game.
Number 688 needs improvements. AlsoThey need to put a skip button because sometimes these are very hard.
After 150 rounds, honestly, its boring lol.
Generally a great game. However, once you get to later levels there are levels where you cant even see where your ball is.
Reset hole doesnt work and stroke count doesnt track correctly.
Its almost impossible first theres an uphill windmill, and then after that there is a moving wall. Its almost luck, nerf it please.
Level 370 has a hole that is Impossible to complete because of one of the holes in the middle. Frustrating.
The game is pretty addictive and we've played more than 1700 holes, almost ashamed to say that. But the game never seems to change. Each hole is the same as the one you've played before with a minor twist in variation that you've also played before. Developer, please make more variations to the courses.
Looked like a fun game, but every 5 holes you get an ad. Holes arent very long so every 3ish minutes having to stop for a two part ad to load really was too much to even try past hole 15.
This golf app sharpens our brain and thats a good thing, its like exercising our brain. Thank you for this challenging game.
We downloaded this game in hopes to play with our son. 9/10 of the ads are sexual and not appropriate. Its a shame because this game says 4+. We will rate this higher if the ads were matched the age rating of the game.
Game started freezing in the 200s of holes, requires restart and sometimes doesnt even fix it. Restarted 10 times trying to do hole 234 and it still freezes on loading.
Forces u to pay with 2-5 minute ads.
We get it, free game so no one is making any real money just off downloads alone. Getting an ad after every 1-2 holes is quite absurd & rather obnoxious. Itd be cool if there were some benefit to paying other than just no ads as in ball designs, trails, etc but thats not an option it seems. Having an ad run so consistently turns us off from playing the game entirely as its just an intrusive way for developers to bug the customer enough to chalk up a few bucks which is rather obnoxious & predatory.
Very fun and relaxing if youre stressed.
We love this app. Its zen, yet still a bit competitive for those who like a little more competitive. Best golf game app Ive played yet.
This game is very fun and soothing because of the clean, minimalistic lines and UI. We think this game could be better if there was a level editor so that people can make their own levels. From playing, we can see that the levels are made from lots of different blocks of course and so we dont think it would be too hard to implement. We think the levels that people make could be available for other players to play, like Geometry Dash. Maybe implementing this would take away from the minimalism and simplicity of the game, but we still think it would be a fun feature.
Love this game! Very relaxing and fun. Some levels have strategic shortcuts that add variety and depth. It is a lot of fun. We recommend it.
Great relaxing game, has very good controls and simply plays as a mini golf game should , great job devs.
Vista Golf wont wow anyone with its graphics. Its not supposed to. Its about the gameplay, stupid, and thats where this shines. The tutorial is brief but you wont need of that because the controls are that intuitive, and rotating the hole around is quite important on some of the more challenging holes. It doesnt hurt that once you get used to get to the obstacles and what they do, youll quickly discover things are set up to be challenging, but fair. Vista Golf doesnt want you to rush. It wants you to take your time and enjoy the ride. It doesnt congratulate you on an ace or ride you when you need 23 putts on a hole as happened to us once. Every hole sinks in the same fashion, and the next rises in a gentle fashion. This is mini-putt done right. Our only real suggestion for the developers would be that once one of the 9-hole weekly courses has run its route, its gone forever. It would be nice to download 9-holes that you like and be able to revisit them offline just for fun, see if you can beat your best round. But this a minor quibble. Two thumbs up for this stroke of genius that wont be disappearing from our iPod Touch anytime soon.
We enjoy but this is our 2nd time getting stuck UNDER the coarse. 1st time was at raising split bridge – finally able to get back up. This time Im under a deck with the center pinion. We can pull to hit 100 and we see the direction line coming out under – but when we let go nothing happens except our stroke count goes UP. We have already wasted about 50 strokes. HELP.
Its a nice game, but a bit too zen and not that competitive.
Nice game but tired of holding 12 iPad Pro in Portrait mode. Needs Landscape support so our iPad cover will work. Pls fix.
Enjoy the game but parts are frustrating especially when you cannot see where you are playing. Final straw was a hole where the ball did not go up a ramp, came back down and hit the end of a bar sweeping across, and the ball stopped – next stroke. Hit and did not go through the windmill and the ball came down the ramp and got swept off. Ball resets but keeps rolling down the last part of the ramp and gets swept off. Stuck in a loop that will never stop. Game over. Tried to quit the game but it opens back in the same loop. No longer able to play, period. Only option is to delete the game and reinstalll. Not happening – poor design.
Will not open. A pity. Enjoyed for several years. Deleting. Devs failed upkeep.
Well, we were enjoying the game, but now we are on level 411 & cant see the ball under all the ramps & obstacles. Its a par 29, & Im on stroke 100 & have no idea how to proceed when we dont know where the ball is. There is a reset button but it doesnt work. There is no way to skip this level & advance to the next. Ive had it. Im deleting the game.
This really is a great game, but there is one big problem. We paid to remove ads, it was worth it. BUT, later on, we went into settings, and the option to pay was still there. We hit remove ads again to check, and it tried to charge us again. THIS IS WRONG. Once someone pays to remove ads, you need to remove the option, or at least disable the option. There is also no indication anywhere in the game or the settings that it is paid for. This all tells us that you would be happy to charge people twice. Fix your app. THIS IS FRAUD.
UPDATE: Dev says to join Discord server, but one doesn't seem to exist for game or their company. UPDATE: Devs appear to have given up on this game. Emails to support go unanswered, and the weekly challenges are just repeats of the same holes. Not to mention that the weekly challenges seem to be rigged. Every week we see the same people getting these impossible scores. Multiple holes-in-one. Really? There must be a back door or cheat that allows them to do that. When you see the same players week after week with impossibly low scores, something is amiss.
Easy to play for hours with simple and fun courses.
Ive never had more fun than with this app. Its hard finding apps that are fun and challenging at the same time. We keep trying to find ways to beat the system. Now being in quarantine we cant seem to put this game down.
We love this game, but when the ads pop up the volume is loud! Can play this game when we have to be silent. We will go and find another game to occupy our mind instead. If you cant control ad column, we cant play it.
If youve played 5 levels youve played them all. No unique qualities to new levels. The physics are also off. Balls bounce too much and bounce off at odd angles, goes too far or not far enough. Ramps are way off. Just in general its hard to figure out anything because it could fly off the course or never make it around the corner.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.2.12
- Size: 105.31 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Shallot Games, LLC.
Last updated: 29th October 2022 | Genre: Sports, Casual | Developer: Shallot Games, LLC.