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Nano Golf: Puzzle Putting – Sports Game Review
Nano Golf: Puzzle Putting is a Sports/Puzzle game from Nitrome, first launched in 21st March 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 343+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Nano Golf: Puzzle Putting Stand Out
Travel the world beating courses in this puzzling golf action game!
Features:
- Puzzling golf action!
- Easy one-handed controls.
- 70+ unique courses.
- Travel to crazy worlds.
- Dodge deadly traps.
- Epic boss stages.
-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 Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Nano Golf: Puzzle Putting is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st March 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Download & Availability
Nano Golf: Puzzle Putting is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Nano Golf: Puzzle Putting 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:
Ive been playing your first game a LOT and this just popped up to download the sequel and we LOVE it. Same mechanics but now you get multiple strokes and great use of old and new puzzle mechanics. Gets hard fast but always want to try one more time. Thanks and happy to pay to remove ads on this one.
We absolutely adore this game and how it crossed an easy simple style into such a fun app puzzle game.
Fun game! Challenging yet beatable. Would have been a great game for the NES back in the day.
Awesome little golfing game that isn't too hard overall! Love it.
It's great other than a single level that was very difficult. But overall a good game. Just waiting for new levels.
We had fun on all levels in the game but their were moments were we wanted to destroy our phone. The game is rather short. All in all though it was a good game.
Beat the game, perfect blend between puzzle solving and sports. The ads were no problem due to the enjoyment is the gameplay. Some aspects were confusing because there was no description, but after playing the level for a while, we got comfortable with the task, this also makes it more of a challenge. 10/10. Great Game.
Its a great game, but please make more worlds because we already finished the game.
The ads are pretty intrusive in this game. But after spending $2.49 to remove the ads it was actually fun and possible to figure out the puzzles once the ads were out of the way. Its a bit short though.
Wonderful music, authentic pixel graphics, (pixels of one sprite dont cover half the pixels of floor, no diagonal pixels, etc.) and engaging gameplay. One problem is how the video ads are too loud, so if Im listening to the music with earbuds, the ads will hurt our ears. This is mostly a nitpick, and Im not sure how much can be done about it. Overall, great job.
We have never got bored of this game we have completely done all the levels ADD MORE SOON.
Another super fun title from NITROME ! Legendary balance of Awesome graphics and PLAYABILITY.
Really great art style and controls.
Easy to pick up and addicting.
We saw this on reddit decided to give it a try turns out it is an amazing game.
One word to describe this game Dope AF! Sorry two words.
Nitrom never fail us in mobile gaming.
This game has fun, addictive, and unique gameplay. It has simple swipe controls, and good physics! The colors are great, and the gameplay is fun and simple. However, dont be fooled by its first few levels. As you progress through the levels, you have to face puzzles, and very challenging obstacles! While this game is fun, it can also make you very, very, mad. However, in conclusion, we highly recommended this game to anyone at any age! This game is definitely 5 STAR WORTHY.
All you ever wanted in an arcade game! Mechanics are great considering the type of game. Good concept and enjoyable if you can look past the ads. It gets hard fast, but thats what we were looking for in a mini golf arcade game. Good job developers! We applaud you.
This is really cool and addicting. Its nice to see an 8 bit golf game for once on the AppStore. Performance is also good and theres no lag.
There are two issues with the scores in this game. The first is that level select lists par, but it does not list the players score, which is displayed in a separate screen and while playing. This makes improving scores extremely tedious. Second, the score card records the players most recent score, not their high score. This discourages replaying if a player scored well. These two flaws are a major hassle to replayability. Otherwise though the game is good.
Bruh, hole 69 is impossible if you dont watch an ad to get more strokes.
Dont get us wrong, this game is amazing! All of the puzzles and levels! Its addicting! (To all of the people who hate adds turn your WiFi/ cellular data off) but the game kept crashing after every level and it started to get very annoying. If and hopefully when the developer fixes this we would for sure be a guaranteed 5 star, thank you and have fun playing this game.
This is a truly wonderful game with very fun fundamental mechanics. You swipe backward with the distance equaling the power, and you aim with moving left or right. A lot of the times you have to line up shots. The only problem with this is that the size of the whole is WAY too small. Im not saying this to complain about the difficulty, but other players will agree that when you see a shot from afar, it is a matter of one pixel increment of moving your finger left and right to make a shot, and it simply isnt fun to have to constantly retry when you miss. We would be perfect with only 5 more pixels or something. Also, there are way too many ads, to the point that we dont want to even play the game, its obnoxious. Otherwise, its really great.
Love how its not just a mindless mini golf app but it makes you really think and plan out later levels ads are kinda annoying but it is a free game so what can you do. At least there isnt micro transactions that we know of.
We love this game its fun and it doesnt require that much space in our phone to download but the only thing this game is missing is a level editor mode so you can create and upload levels for the public to play but other than that this game is awesome.
Its a fun game to play in our free time, however once you get into later levels the game starts lagging incredibly, even with the powerful iPhone X. It also made our iPhone X incredibly hot, even to the point of feeling it through our phone case. Its a great game, just needs some optimizations.
This is a great game, but the ads are absolutely ridiculous. Never in our life have we seen an app with this many ads. Luckily most of ads we got could be skipped after 5 or 10 seconds, but even still we probably spent more time watching ads then actually playing the game. We mean we understand that you need to make money, but this was just completely overboard. With that said, however, when we actually did get to play the game, it was quite enjoyable, and as such we endured through all the ads and ended up beating the whole game in only 1 or 2 sittings, leaving us wishing there were more levels. Hopefully in future updates some more levels will be added and maybe the number of ads could even be reduced (although perhaps that's just wishful thinking).
This is a really fun casual game, but while playing we encountered quite a few bugs, including heavy frame rate drops, and a few encounters of multiple balls before the levels where youre supposed to duplicate them. Other than that, we just hope they add more levels, because Ive beaten all the ones in the game at the moment.
Game was really fun and enjoyable Varying levels of difficulty made it challenging but not too much we finished the game pretty fast and got all gold trophies but it was really fun.
Hey, we saw you game on Reddit and decided to download it, its fun we really like it, but here are some bugs you need to fix (we have an iPhone 6s+), first when we get a trophy the game gets stuck and needs to be reopened. -When you reach the 100 strokes(incremental) the achievement keeps appearing with every other stroke. (we dont know if it happens to another achievement) -If we go to another app (sending the game to background) and come back its stuck, and need to be restarted. But after all if really enjoyable, good luck.
We barley started to play this game for a little bit and it starts to get a little addicting after a while because its just a simple game you can play to waste time.
The game is fun but after 3 holes or 3 retries an ad plays and it really takes away from the game.
The game slows down sometimes we dont know why.
We feel like this game was rlly fun and we didnt have that much of a problem with ads. We wanted to keep playing but level 54 in Pebble Cove is broken and unbeatable. The rain kills the golf ball right away and it wont ever stop. We feel like the app developers should update the app to fix these bugs. That is our one but complaint that small bugs in the game are everywhere.
Its a great game but we only played for 10 mins and got around 15 ads.
Fun game but cant get past level 54. The rain starts almost as soon as our first shot and we get hit by it every time no matter what.
While playing this game we realized that its hard to progress because so many ads pop up all the time. And also the levels are kind of easy, its only worth about two days of playing casually.
- We didnt like the artwork, 2. We didnt like the controls.
It's a really fun game and the sound effects are perfect!! But we found a bug and we couldn't find developer's email so we decided to say it here! In level 36 whene the bill hits by the lazer and when the scene or level is about to restart there will not be any locked doors anymore! We mean the door and the key won't revive. But it's a new game and these bugs are normal. Keep going.
Not sure if we are the only one but when first opening the game there was no sound. Ive seen videos of it so we know sound should be there. Unfortunately having that issue was a major turn off to the game. But other than that its a fun concept. Bugs need to be fixed. Also side note; the ads are a bit too frequent.
LOVE this game, totally worth the $2.99 no ad purchase. Only 3 real issues with the interface: 1) No way to quickly go back and replay courses you just did bad on during gameplay. Even if you do exit all the way to menu and try to find a course to improve your score, its just a list of level numbers and PAR, no course images or your num. Of shots for each course. Really frustrating. Makes it impossible to replay favorite courses. 2) No way to cancel a shot. Most touch golf games will pop up with a cancel if you bring the shot meter back to the ball so you dont HAVE to hit if your finger is too close to the edge of the phone to make the right shot. This game makes you take the shot no matter what. 3) The UI is really confusing as to whether an option is activated or not, or how to close menus. (Go to settings and tell us you dont get confused by how to get out). One more nice-to-have: let us keep sound on, music off, and use a podcast or music player in the background! Thanks – great art style and game.
We love this game but we have to relaunch it very constantly due to it slowing down to unplayable speeds. We have no idea how a game like is could have frame drop issues.
Hi nitrome we have been a huge fan of your games for years This game is definitely fun to play but what the hell the exit button is for??? Many of us simply want to select last level to replay or switch to another level yet we now have to go thru a totally unnecessary step which Ive found very annoying. Also it would be great if we can see directly if weve met the par or not on the level selection page.
Great time waster on airplane mode (no ads because screw yo fremium game breaking ads) but the lag and low frame rate makes us want to be the ball every time it evaporates into a laser.
There is so much memory leak that the animations get into a slow motion mode and after a while game crashes. This happens all the time please fix.
Hi, level 54 is so confusing as to what Im supposed to avoid and theres no explanation or help button.
There comes a time when you, as a developer, need to realize that making your money through ads rather than by a single purchase just drives free players away. Having a full screen popup every 10 seconds doesn't make us want to pay and it doesn't make us want to play.
Every 2-3 holes, a huge, unskippable video ad pops up. It ruins the flow and fun of an otherwise great little game. Im all for buying apps if the game is compelling enough but yikes. Turned us right off.
No directions and no help if you are stuck. Also not able to turn around so you can leave plug in.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 25.57 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Nitrome
Last updated: 21st March 2018 | Genre: Sports, Puzzle | Developer: Nitrome