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Nano Golf: Hole In One – Puzzle Game Review
Nano Golf: Hole In One is a Puzzle/Sports/Sports game from Nitrome, first launched in 24th January 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 875+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Nano Golf: Hole In One Stand Out
Get a hole in one. How far can you get without missing a shot?
Features:
- Endless crazy courses to master.
- Get the highest score possible and compete against friends.
- Deadly traps and cunning courses.
- Easy one handed controls.
- Unlock tons of exciting balls with unique abilities! (including bee ball, retro and explosive bomb!)
- Tough achievement challenges, can you beat them all?
- Optimised for the latest iOS devices.
- Better than Golf! It's the ultimate casual golf experience.
-Important information-
This game contains third party advertising and cross promotion for other nitrome games, both which can be removed via a one time In App Purchase.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Nano Golf: Hole In One is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th June 2019
Recent improvements include:
New Brilliant Ball Update introducing new balls; Rocket, Worm, Cloner, Putt-o-Matic and many more!
Download & Availability
Nano Golf: Hole In One is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Nano Golf: Hole In One on App Store
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:
The putomactic theme is the same as metallic madness zone from sonic cd.
This game is a fun timewaster and the unlockables keep it interesting as you strive for a high score. Only issue we have is that if you want certain mechanics you have to tolerate specific color pallets (the stopwatch has red floor that is hard to look at after a while) we would have liked an option to mix mechanics with the different colour pallets.
While we love Nano Golf and it has brought us much joy, after having completed all achievements, we feel a bit empty. Besides trying to get crazy scores on bomb, theres isnt really much to do, and for an arcade style game, having an end is a problem. What Im suggesting is not necessarily to make the game play longer but to simply add more opportunity for variation and extend its lifespan a bit. We wish it were easier to select a random ball. We know this is already a feature but you can only do it some of the time and its really luck of the draw if you end up getting to randomize your ball. So thats it, we think the game would benefit from an easily accessible random ball option. Thank you.
Fun, fast paste game, creative play-style with little ads.
We love this game enjoy it and all of the fun.
Super chill golf game. Love how the theme/colors change based on the interesting selection of balls. Our only suggestion is that the playing area fills the screen a little more (zoomed in).
Idk why but this game is fun no matter what Im doing we mean like anywhere even if Im doing something else.
Nano Golf is a great time killer game. Often times you can just spend a whole bus ride navigating through the different courses. The controls are very easy to use, though you do run into the problem of the game wanting to cancel your shot when you go for certain shots. The different courses are varied and offer a good level of difficulty. There is a certain element of strategy that goes into every shot, such as finding the right angle and speed. The best feature is the number of balls you can unlock. It is very easy to unlock each ball, as you can unlock every ball simply through a few hours of play. Each ball offers its own aesthetic, as the music and backgrounds will change depending on the ball you use. Some differences in the balls is just aesthetic, such as how the basketball makes a standard basketball noise when bouncing off walls. Other balls completely change up the game play, such as the Puttomatic ball which acts like a cannon. The variety in the balls makes sure the game always feels fresh and new.
GREAT GAME but there is one tiny thing, the snake ball sometimes when you go through the portal only the head of the snake comes out, so can you please fix this thanks.
Add a reset/cancel button, Im tired of waiting for our ball to stop rolling to start a new game. Im too impatient we guess.
Ive been playing this game for 7 months now and have a high score of 823, we think we might be developing carpal tunnel but its all worth it. Unique game that hasnt lost our interest.
We love it, you can spend so much time on this game. Every ball changes the game up in some way, we just want to give a few suggestions NANO GOLF SUGGESTIONS earth -a nice green theme with a trail of islands following the earth (its on water) islands can be randomly generated or pre loaded planet – every time you play with it, it has a random skin of a planet, spacey theme but ambient leaves a trail of stars, moons, and asteroids, every time it crashes into a wall, a small crater is created a bit lighter than the bowling ball computer – it leaves a trail of code (binary) and if it hits a wall, the wall turns into a wall of code, toilet paper (to) – its just toilet paper but sometimes you can tp a house and toilet papered ahoyara appear outside the course TREE 4 SEASONS – Spring – tree is with leaves, flowers, and fruit. Leaves a trail of leaves and flowers. When bumps into something, fruit falls. Background with flowers, bees, and butterflies Summer – just a tree with leaves, trail of leaves, has a slight heat wave effect, bumps into wall, leaves fall down Fall – the leaves are red, orange, yellow, brown, more leaves fall when you bump into a thing and more leaves are in the trail, background is fall leaves and leave less trees Winter – the tree has no leaves and leaves a trail of snow, the ground is cold stiff grass, when it bumps into something branches fall of Beach ball – is just a beach ball, background is a beach and the ground is sand with an ocasional net.
Nano Golf is a great game to play when your bored. You can get coins around the course and there are a lot of different golf balls to get. Our favorite one is the disco ball where theres lights around you. There are a lot of golf balls to get and not that many ads. You can even get an extra life if you spend only 20 coins! Its really hard, but thats what makes it a great time killer. You would want to get a new highscore or just grind coins. Our highscore is 19! Thats how hard it is…This is our favorite game to play when Im bored or we dont have WiFi or just generally. Theres obstacles too, like spikes, spike cubes, and teleporters which can be very helpful! In conclusion, its the best game Ive ever had.
Overall the mechanics and gameplay are really fun and addicting. The game could use more levels, unlockables, etc since it only took one session to unlock everything. We really enjoyed how the mechanics, music, and aesthetic changes with each ball option. Note to dev – Theres a bug: once you unlock the bomb ball, whenever you get awarded a free coin prize, it then gives you the option to unlock something. When you click it just sends you to the ball unlock screen and spins infinitely. Note #2 to dev – thanks for fixing the bug! Have another star.
Missing SOUNDS!!!! All Nitrome games Ive downloaded are pretty fun but they are all missing their soundtracks and FX! We hope this helps the developers and isnt lost on them.
Challenging and fun. The glitches are fixed and the gameplay is much better. Thanks for fixing it.
Really fun, but a lil repetitive.
There is a bug that occurs due to the fact that we already had a high score of 50 before the new update. Because of the high score, we are unable to unlock the puttomatic and bomb balls. Please fix this.
This is a fun game but what it needs is more traps. A variety of traps would be a better experience.
The game is very fun but for some reason we can't unlock the final ball (not sure which one it is). We have more then enough coins and 23/24 of the balls unlocked.
We like this game a lot. Its a great time waster and it seems fun and fair. We also love how each ball changes the background as well as the music. Some even add gameplay tweaks which is great. Unfortunately we think we have been experiencing a glitch with this game that is preventing us from unlocking the bomb and new puttomatic balls (the two balls that you unlock by beating a certain number of levels in a row). We have a high score of 56 points and we have gotten over 15 points multiple times but we still havent unlocked either of these balls. Im very confused about this and we wish we could unlock these balls. Other than that issue this is a fun, great game.
How do you get this ball? Our high score is far above 15, and im still not unlocking it.
We have been enjoying the game so far. It is not hard to play the game at all, but sometimes the cancel button annoyes us. The bad thing, however are the ads. After every two games there is an AD. We realize you have to make money, but why not make ads not pop-up, but rather optional for extra unlocks etc. And the bugs… The new update locked us out of the bomb and we are not able to get it back as well as not able to get the puttomatic. Otherwise 4 stars.
Love the different concept of the game ..our only down fall is make it bigger…..on our iPad Pro it is very small.
The new update took away the hard earned bomb we got before this update.
Really not a fan of the non stop "rate us" button! We paid, so enough is enough.
This game is awesome!!! We have so much fun playing for hours and hours! However there is a small glitch where we keep getting blackout wasted and pooping our pants every night.
Some playing fields have full spikes around the area where you cannot bounce off of. If there is an L shape playing field, one would think that you need to bounce the ball off the wall in some way to achieve the angle necessary to make it. No real issue but it is a bit frustrating when youre just about to break your high score and now you got busted because of an oddity. No issues though. Love the game.
But it is annoying that you have to give a review to get new balls, so o gave it 3 stars. We are 8.
Right now its not letting us get a new ball and it might have a little glitch because sometimes we are getting ready to shoot and it just goes on its own.
We wanted to love this game because we like golf games but we couldnt 1/2 the time we skip over the hole and some of the hole are impossible. One of our all time favorite game is Golf Blitz by Noodlecake Studios. This game takes in the golfing experience but this one not really this game can be fixed majorly. It still has potential though.
The game looks good and certainly has polish, but the controls feel backwards, the hole is pretty relaxed so it seems sloppy, and then we got served an ad for the NRA??? No thanks.
We payed for no-ads. There are still ads fir their other minigolf game.
We wish we could get it zero stars this game is not good. Because its so horrible when youre trying to get the ball and touch the screen and then lift finger up.boooooom youre out. We got a warn you about the game. Im not the best at writing reviews. Dont buy the game.You can get a Another-game this is a horrible game so dont waste your money on it!!!!!!!!!! If you like it thats good thats for us and thats our opinion. Thank you for listening to our review. By.
We hate it do not get it it is a waist of time.It is so boring no one get it.
We cant help but feel like this app duped us. Just moments after discovering we hated the game, we accidentally clicked the button to buy the premium version, and sure enough, we scanned our fingerprint before we realized what was happening!!! Needless to say, Ive now spent 38 hours on this app, just trying to justify our $3 purchase. Ive hated absolute every moment of it. We wouldve gone to town on a stack of warm, delicious pancakes had we not wasted our $3. BUT HERE we AM, 2 sleepless nights later, wasting our life away. At least the weathers been nice.
Dont recommend. Its so small, the aim is terrible and it was very glitchy. Not worth it.
We love the game and when we mean we raged we mean that when we tried to fully get all ball skins and the bomb was not hard but challenging you should add more things like this we felt so happy beating it good for speed running lol keep at it.
This game has beautiful graphics and entertaining gameplay! Ive never seen a game like this. It is a gem among piles of coal!! The only thing we would suggest is reducing the price of the premium version. Although this game is worth everything, we would love to play this nonstop without having to wait for the ads to finish. Other than that its the best free game on the App Store.
Props to you guys for serving good Ads and not the low quality anything everyone else seems to think is ok. Straight forward game, enjoyable soundtrack and interesting levels. Great work.
Im not very good at video games but we do like having a little something on our phone to occupy us in an emergency. This game does the trick! And its made by our favorite game company, nitrome! We used to spend hours playing their online games through middle and high school. Dirk valentine was one of our favorites.
We love this. Its addicting and fun. Dont let people tell you that you shouldnt download it because of the ads- trust us, its worth it!! Such a good game should cost money, lol. If you really like the game but not the ads, just buy it. Just one thing though: theres nothing much else to do after you get all the balls. You only have your high-score to bear and the bomb challenge, but thats kinda it… Still a great game, though.
The overall difficulty is somewhat randomized, but its a fun little game to play. You can choose to use your coins to get re-tries and levels or literally just save them to buy the various characters to play with. It gives you a lot of freedom of how you want to play.
First off, we love games with a retro, 8 bit style type of design, so this was perfect. Second of all, every time you play you get different levels, steering away from the repetitiveness. And finally, the different balls you unlock change the theme of the game making it look so much better!! Lastly, the ads arent overwhelming which is a huge dealbreaker for us. Such a great, simple game. Wouldnt change anything about it.
One little problem is the is on right or left close the the edge of our screen,that means we cant make it go far or make it go over a bump.This game is still fun but its just the problem.
The game is definitely a time killer. Whenever Im just chilling waiting for a movie or something we pull out the game every time and it never fails to entertain us. We enjoyed that every ball had a single theme. It surprised us the first time we played it so we were pretty excited when the color and everything changed plus the music. The music is very original and its one of the only games we listen to while playing.
Played it a few hours, its actually fun. The only problem we have with it is that some levels are what we think impossible even at early levels bc of the ability to pull on the screen. We think this could get solved if landscape was an option. We played it on iphone x.
Nice little game. Fun to play and interesting variety. One issue is that the timing of the cannon swivel and the burning floor interval is exactly the same, so theyre always in sync, which makes several levels nearly impossible to complete since theyre synced up in exactly the same timing. One needs to be faster than the other.
Despite the different levels, it can get pretty repetitive. Adding a "story mode" where you advance from one course to the next would be the greatest way to improve.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.3
- Size: 48.61 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Nitrome
Last updated: 18th June 2019 | Genre: Puzzle, Sports | Developer: Nitrome