Golf With Your Friends

Golf With Your Friends is a PC casual sports game built around chaotic mini-golf, simultaneous multiplayer, and courses designed to turn every putt into a social contest. The current Steam storefront still uses the name Golf With Your Friends; no verified rebrand, replacement edition, or renamed PC version was found. Developed by Blacklight Interactive with Team17 and published by Team17, it combines accessible controls with enough modifiers and community content to support both short party sessions and longer score-chasing rivalries.

How the mini-golf loop works

Each hole begins with a simple decision: aim the ball, set your shot power, and try to reach the goal in as few strokes as possible. The courses quickly complicate that formula with ramps, moving hazards, tunnels, jumps, water, boost surfaces, and routes that reward experimentation more than conventional golf technique.

The defining feature is simultaneous mini-golf. Players do not always wait for one another to finish a turn, so a crowded course becomes a race to read the layout, commit to a shot, and recover when the ball takes an unexpected bounce. Collisions, out-of-bounds resets, and aggressive shortcuts create a balance between genuine course reading and deliberate mischief.

Classic mode is the clearest expression of the core rules, while other modes change the objective. Dunk replaces the traditional hole with a basketball-style target, Hockey uses a puck and goal-based layouts, and Speed Golf scores players around how quickly they reach the target rather than focusing only on stroke count.

Modes, modifiers, and team play

Golf With Your Friends is more flexible than a standard round-based mini-golf game. Lobby settings let hosts adjust the rules, course length, collision behavior, and other gameplay options before the match begins. A session can be configured as a relatively clean putting contest or pushed toward a louder party-game format with hazards and disruptive modifiers.

Power-ups can trap a ball in honey, freeze it, or change its shape, while options such as jumping, low gravity, jetpacks, turbo boosts, and ball-shape changes alter how players approach each hole. The result is not a fixed competitive ruleset. It is a collection of adjustable formats that can be tuned to suit a relaxed group, a chaotic public lobby, or a more serious private rivalry.

Teams Mode adds another layer by allowing players to divide into teams of different sizes. Hosts can choose how team scores are calculated and decide whether balls collide with teammates, opponents, or both. Teams can be used across existing game modes and official or Workshop courses, making it useful for larger groups that want shared objectives instead of a purely individual leaderboard.

Couch Mode is designed for shorter sessions, using a random course and a compact nine-hole format. Local Quickplay also supports pass-the-controller play, while recent controller improvements allow local hotseat groups to use up to four controllers instead of sharing a single pad.

Courses and community-created content

The official courses use distinct themes and mechanical identities rather than presenting a realistic golf club environment. Pirate, candy, haunted, ancient, space, sports, racing, and other settings provide different visual rules and obstacles, while licensed crossover content adds recognizable Team17 connections such as Worms and DREDGE-inspired cosmetics.

The long-term PC attraction is the level editor and Steam Workshop integration. Players can build their own holes, test them, publish them, and browse community-made courses. The editor has expanded with additional assets, lighting controls, grouped objects, water variants, and themed construction pieces, so Workshop content is more than a small bonus playlist.

That user-generated structure changes the game's replay loop. After learning the official layouts, players can move into community courses, experiment with unusual rule combinations, and return to familiar holes with different modifiers enabled. It is particularly valuable for groups that enjoy making deliberately difficult or absurd courses for one another.

Content model and available editions

The base game is a paid PC release rather than a free-to-play product. Its core package includes solo play, online multiplayer, local multiplayer, the main modes, official courses, ball customization, the level editor, and access to Workshop functionality.

The current Steam listing shows an Ultimate Edition and a broader complete-set bundle, alongside individual add-ons. The catalog contains course expansions such as Bouncy Castle, Peaceful Pines, Corrupted Forest, and Olympus Odyssey, plus cosmetic packs including Caddy, Racing, Sports, Summer Party, Fairytale Fables, Critical Hit, Horrifying Headgear, Legends of Olympus, and Teams Mascot items.

Players should distinguish between gameplay expansions and cosmetic add-ons. Course DLC adds new layouts and editor assets, while cosmetic packs focus on hats, floaties, trails, and stickers. Free cosmetic items and updates have also been added separately, so not every current item in the Steam content list represents a paid course.

Who should play Golf With Your Friends?

This is a strong fit for players who want online party multiplayer, quick local sessions, simple controls, and unpredictable physics rather than a serious golf simulation. It works especially well for groups of friends who enjoy teasing one another, changing the rules between rounds, and replaying a hole after discovering a faster route.

It also suits solo players who want to practice official courses, explore Workshop maps, test the editor, or improve personal scores. However, the game's most distinctive content is social. Players seeking a structured career, licensed professional golfers, realistic club selection, or detailed swing simulation should look elsewhere. For a more traditional full-course golf experience with career systems and simulation-focused mechanics, modern golf simulations such as PGA TOUR 2K25 are a better match.

PC features, controls, and localization

The PC version is distributed through Steam and lists Steam Workshop, Steam Remote Play Together, online PvP, shared or split-screen play, single-player support, achievements, stats, and an included level editor. Remote Play Together is useful for groups that want to share a local-style session remotely, while local hotseat supports both pass-the-pad play and multiple controllers.

Mouse and keyboard input is suitable for aiming and shot control, and controller play is supported for standard matches. The local multiplayer update specifically confirms support for up to four controllers in hotseat sessions. The game is presented through a 3D course camera that keeps the ball, obstacles, and route ahead visible rather than using a first-person golf perspective.

Steam is the verified PC launcher and storefront path, and no separate publisher launcher is listed for the PC edition. The storefront also identifies a third-party EULA. No separate anti-cheat system, dedicated server tool, or official mod browser was verified, so the game's main PC ecosystem remains Workshop creation, Steam multiplayer, and Remote Play.

Interface and subtitle support is listed for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. Full audio is not listed as a broad localization feature, so the verified language support is primarily interface and subtitle based.

Similar PC games and alternatives

Golf With Your Friends occupies the party-game side of PC golf. Its closest comparisons are other mini-golf titles, but its combination of simultaneous play, power-ups, team rules, and Workshop courses gives it a distinct multiplayer identity.

Players who want creative course construction and social competition will find the editor especially important. Players who want realistic swing execution and full-course strategy should choose a simulation instead. Players who prefer surreal single-player golf puzzles may enjoy a more experimental game, but that audience should not expect the same large-lobby multiplayer structure.

Golf With Your Friends FAQ

Is Golf With Your Friends still the current PC name?

Yes. The current Steam listing uses Golf With Your Friends, and no verified rebrand or renamed replacement edition was found. It should not be confused with the separately branded Golf With Your Friends 2 project.

How many players can join a match?

Online multiplayer supports up to 12 players. Local play is available through hotseat and shared or split-screen features, with up to four controllers supported for local hotseat sessions.

Does Golf With Your Friends support co-op?

It supports online and local competitive multiplayer rather than a separate story-based co-op campaign. Teams Mode lets players share a team score and configure collision rules for cooperative or adversarial group play.

What game modes are included?

The main modes are Classic, Dunk, Hockey, Speed Golf, Teams, and Couch Mode. Hosts can also combine modes with modifiers, course settings, power-ups, and custom rule options.

Does the PC version have a level editor?

Yes. The PC edition includes a level editor with Steam Workshop integration. Players can create, test, publish, and download community-made courses, and the editor supports themed assets and additional construction tools.

Is the DLC required to play community courses?

No general DLC requirement is listed for playing Workshop content. Some course packs add themed assets and official layouts, but community courses can provide a large amount of additional content beyond the base game's included courses.

Does it support controllers on PC?

Yes. Controller play is supported, and local hotseat can use up to four controllers. Steam Remote Play Together also supports remote sessions built around the game's local multiplayer features.