Games Like Golfing Over It with Alva Majo

A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

Why similar: Difficult 37.9%, Psychological Horror 30.1%, Physics 17.2%, Platformer 8%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive game in the genre that established the punishing physics-based climbing loop.

This is a difficult game about climbing.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 21%, Difficult 20.1%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Physics 12.4%, Platformer 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A modern, highly challenging spiritual successor that focuses on precise, physics-driven movement.

Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...

Why similar: Precision Platformer 33.3%, Difficult 28.2%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Platformer 9.1%, Indie 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal precision platformer where every mistake results in a significant loss of progress.

Travel around The Great Gales to climb challenging peaks in this physics-based climbing adventure set in 1887. Meet like-minded mountaineers, unlock helpful climbing gear, and become a pioneer of mountaineering.

Why similar: Difficult 31.2%, Physics 25.2%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Platformer 15.8%, Action 3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based climbing game that captures the same sense of deliberate, high-stakes movement.

Climb a surreal mountain on a pogo stick and make friends along the way.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 32%, Difficult 24.4%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Platformer 13.2%, Action 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique pogo-stick physics mechanic to create an incredibly difficult and rewarding climbing experience.

Roll the boulder to the top.

Why similar: Difficult 28.2%, Physics 21.3%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Platformer 14.9%, Precision Platformer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Thematically and mechanically mirrors the endless, frustrating struggle of the seed game.

What's better than climbing mountain in a cardboard box? Getting deep frustration every time you fall from it.

Why similar: Difficult 25.2%, Physics 21.1%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Platformer 16%, Action 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features awkward, physics-based movement that makes simple navigation a test of patience and skill.

Become the fella. Walk on the stilts.

Why similar: Difficult 25.7%, Memes 25.6%, Physics 22.2%, Platformer 14.1%, Action 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based challenge game that requires extreme precision to navigate obstacles on stilts.

Take control of a mighty ball and fling with great precision towards the top of the Tower. Jump through aesthetically pleasing environments filled with intriguing creatures and encounters. Falling is part of the journey, so just keep going. Can you reach the end?

Why similar: Golf 34.7% ★, Precision Platformer 16.1%, Difficult 12.1%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Physics 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on momentum-based physics and precision to navigate complex, vertical environments.

Cursed to Golf is a challenging golf-like adventure where every shot counts. Players are tasked with making it out of Golf Purgatory to become a Golfing Legend. With insane hazards, otherworldly power-ups and tons of replayability, will you make it back alive or will you forever be… Cursed to Golf!?

Why similar: Golf 64.2% ★, Difficult 19.5%, Physics 7.2%, Platformer 5.7%, Action 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines golf mechanics with roguelike elements and high-difficulty platforming challenges.

A physics driven parkour game inspired by "Getting Over It" and "Jump King". Flip, ski, and dive yourself up a massive mountain of stuff. Fall down, rage, get up, shake it off, parkour-on!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.3%, Difficult 21.2%, Physics 15.7%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Platformer 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A rage-inducing platformer that demands mastery over momentum and physics to reach the summit.

The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 40.9%, Difficult 25.2%, Platformer 20.2%, Memes 5.1%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in precision platforming that rewards frame-perfect inputs and persistence.

This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 23%, Difficult 21.7%, Physics 18.4%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Platformer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-heavy climbing game that emphasizes the frustration and humor of difficult movement.

Have game developers often forced you to climb somewhere with no purpose? This time, your goal is to hit rock bottom and nothing else. It should be simple enough, good luck to everyone.

Why similar: Parody 26% ★, Precision Platformer 19.8%, Surreal 14.8%, Physics 14.2%, Platformer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D platforming challenge that focuses on navigating a vertical world where falling is a constant threat.

City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world. Find your way through diverse hand-crafted environments and enjoy funny challenges full of falling and destruction.

Why similar: Difficult 23.8%, Physics 18.6%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Precision Platformer 14.6%, Platformer 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous physics-based game where you must carefully control limbs to scale buildings.

Never Give Up is a hardcore platformer determined to turn you into bloody chunks. Run, jump, and slide your way through ever-changing levels that get harder each time you succeed. You’ll need to try, die, and try again if you want to conquer the game without pressing the Give Up button.

Why similar: Difficult 35.1%, Platformer 28.6%, Precision Platformer 17.6%, Indie 8.1%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, punishing platformer that forces players to learn through repeated failure.

Think you can make it out? Many have tried… All have failed. Traverse the unforgiving cave and do impossible jumps with your rocket launcher and shotgun.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 25.7%, Difficult 20.2%, Physics 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Platformer 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer that requires careful timing and physics management to progress.

Super Inefficient Golf builds on top of the most inefficient game ever conceived by making it even LESS efficient. Drop your silly golf stick and start using exploding mines to guide your ball! Place them, choose the right timing, and BOOM - Birdie!

Why similar: Golf 51.9% ★, Difficult 16.3%, Physics 14.2%, Family Friendly 8.5%, Casual 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses unconventional golf mechanics to create a challenging and often hilarious physics experience.

Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 31.1%, Difficult 22.4%, Platformer 15%, Family Friendly 9.3%, Surreal 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult 2D platformer that uses gravity-based mechanics to test player precision.

It's a difficult game but it should be easier than real rock climbing.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.2%, Difficult 21.5%, Physics 16.3%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Platformer 10.4%

Prove your skills by driving the Bathtub on Wheels! Solve puzzles, collect soap, and dive into Jeff's family drama. Drive, Fall, Learn, Repeat.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.1%, Difficult 20.2%, Physics 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15%, Platformer 12.8%

Only some will reach the top. Will you be one of them? in this precision 3D platformer where every jump is a risk and easy to learn-hard to master controls you will certainly feel rewarded once you start climbing from the Pit of Despair. Just don't fall. FREE NOW

Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.8%, Difficult 19.8%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Physics 13.5%, Platformer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 3D platformer that emphasizes vertical progression and difficult jumps.

A physics-based platformer with unique controls and a pun-laden narrator. Jump, stick, and attempt to roll a loop over obstacles. Perhaps this game will teach you patience. Stick with it! I'll be right there with you. In your earhole. *Plorp*

Why similar: Experimental 17.2% ★, Memes 15%, Precision Platformer 13.8%, Difficult 12.5%, Narration 12.4%

A silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd you will ask yourself: WHAT THE GOLF?

Why similar: Memes 38.2%, Parody 33.5% ★, Physics 16.1%, Action 3.4%, Casual 3.4%

Every grip is a rebellion against fate. The top holds the only secret method to defeat the demon king, but the path there is paved with countless falls. We pay tribute to every challenger. Reaching the end, you win the dawn of the world; and every attempt, you have already won your own dawn.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27%, Difficult 22.5%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Platformer 12.1%, Physics 10.2%

An odd, openish-world life sim where you must learn how to make money just so you can afford to learn how to play golf. A truly unique golf experience with permadeath.

Why similar: Golf 50.6% ★, Experimental 21.4% ★, Perma Death 17.8%, Physics 9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

In Crowbar Climber, use your crowbars to make your way up! Face hooks, planks, and gears using only your arms. Can you beat the game before you run out of energy?

Why similar: Difficult 20.9%, Precision Platformer 20.8%, Physics 20.7%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Platformer 10.2%

Swing into the ultimate golf adventure with Multiplayer Platform Golf! Enjoy physics-based golfing and 3D platforming in multiplayer matches with up to 12 players. Create and share courses using the level editor and explore endless community maps via Steam Workshop. It’s time to tee off!

Why similar: Golf 53.8% ★, Precision Platformer 15.2%, Difficult 14%, Physics 7.3%, Platformer 6.6%

[3D 3rd Person Perma-Death Runner Game]Try to overcome various obstacles until the end.

Why similar: Physics 27.9%, Perma Death 25.3%, Platformer 19.8%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Action 5.8%

Gone Golfing is a first person golfing survival horror. Try to finish the course with as few strokes as possible while surviving the horrors lurking at the cozy cove mini golf resort.

Why similar: Physics 69.1%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Old School 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%, Indie 1.1%

The treasures hidden on the peaks await the most lively, goat daredevils. The challenge will be difficult and… irritating - only the best and most patient will get to the top.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.1%, Difficult 22.8%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Physics 14.1%, Platformer 12.3%

Hans is a physics-driven, parkour adventure. Ascend to the sky with our lonely watermelon hero. Navigate treacherous platforms, defy physics by slowing down time, try not to fall and chase the dream of reuniting with humanity. No saves. Bounce, fail, adapt, and bounce again.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 31.3%, Difficult 28.7%, Physics 18.7%, Platformer 15.2%, Casual 3.2%

Climb a massive overgrown concrete tower while constantly at risk of falling and losing precious progress. BETON BRUTAL offers a fluid and responsive first person parkour experience through tranquil brutalist architecture.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 44.2%, Psychological Horror 14%, Difficult 13.7%, Platformer 13.6%, Physics 6.5%

Attempt to jump to the top of the world in this short, yet difficult platforming adventure. Meet strange friends along the way and make sure not to fall!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 47.8%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, Platformer 21.7%, Difficult 3.9%, Indie 1.2%

BallFrog is a challenging ball rolling platformer with experimental controls! Use your Tongue to grapple and swing.

Why similar: Experimental 27.7% ★, Precision Platformer 22%, Difficult 17.7%, Physics 14.6%, Platformer 8.1%

Your name is Hank. You are doing a Handstand. Jump to the top.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 32.7%, Difficult 25.7%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Platformer 15.7%, Action 3.8%

You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.

Why similar: Platformer 35.6%, Difficult 20.9%, Perma Death 17.7%, Action 12.8%, Indie 10.8%

The Floor is Hot Lava! Run, jump, climb, and surf across nostalgia-packed environments flooded with hot molten lava. Explore alone, or join your friends. And whatever you do, don’t touch the floor.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 45.9%, Difficult 25.8%, Platformer 17.8%, Action 4.6%, Indie 3.2%

You are at point 0. Therefore, you need to go to point 1.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.5%, Difficult 21%, Physics 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, Platformer 9.4%

A highly punishing 3D precision platformer about a goat bouncing up a beautiful mountain to save its scared baby goat. Can you handle the challenge and endure all obstacles that you will face on your way up the mountain?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 37.5%, Difficult 34%, Platformer 21.4%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Indie 2.5%

A game about a very happy guy and his boulder. (Warning: As an accurate representation of the ancient Myth of Sisyphus, this is likely the most difficult and punishing game you will ever play.)

Why similar: Difficult 30.6%, Narration 18.5%, Platformer 17.2%, Physics 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%

Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.

Why similar: Golf 50.8% ★, Narration 18.3%, Physics 13.9%, Platformer 11.8%, Casual 3.3%

Experience rage-inducing precision platforming as a recently deceased soccer player damned to Inferno! Kick your sibling's soul out of Hell for your chance at redemption!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 29.6%, Difficult 21.8%, Physics 18.3%, Platformer 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11%

A challenging 3D platformer with little room for error. Escape a dungeon by jumping to the top, and sacrifice your collectables for items to aid in your ordeal.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 33.6%, Difficult 22.8%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Platformer 13.5%, Old School 11.5%

Explore higher dimensions... with golf! Conquer mind-bending challenges, design your own 4D courses, and unlock new worlds and accessories as you golf your way through the 4th dimension and beyond!

Why similar: Golf 55.4% ★, Surreal 16.8%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Physics 7.6%, Casual 4.8%

Not your traditional Golf game. Humorous destruction and over the top trickshots are the way to score big. Smash up the toilets, make a big mess in the Kitchen, destroy priceless antiques in the Palace. This is golf played indoors where the more expensive the object the higher its game value.

Why similar: Golf 84% ★, Action 8.9%, Indie 7%

You're in a box and you have to climb as high as possible... if you can make it.

Why similar: Difficult 23.7%, Surreal 20.2%, Platformer 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Physics 13.5%

A retromodern and surreal minigolf comedy hosted by the infamous AI bot SUSAN. ...//-- Fling up and go FULL BOOP --\\...

Why similar: Golf 66.1% ★, Surreal 18.3%, Action 8.3%, Indie 7.3%

Embark on an exciting journey with Golf It! Seize your putter, rally your friends, and immerse yourself in an epic minigolf adventure. Conquer countless courses, create lasting memories, and refine your skills to emerge as the ultimate minigolf champion. Your thrilling golfing odyssey begins here!

Why similar: Golf 73.7% ★, Memes 9.9%, Difficult 6.4%, Family Friendly 3.6%, Casual 3.1%

A game for those who can stick it, and stick to it.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 34.8%, Difficult 27.3%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Platformer 15.4%, Action 3.1%

A difficult, minimalist, one-more-try, physics game. Slide your mouse up and down to control your skier's posture and initiate jumps. Stick the landings. Get to the cabin.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 24.2%, Difficult 21.7%, Physics 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Platformer 13.8%

This game is a cross between The Stanley Parable, Undertale, and rage games like I Wanna Be the Guy. And the deeper you get, the less the fourth wall is respected. This game is a parody of game design and laughs on the surface, but there is a deeper and darker story to this game's origin to unravel.

Why similar: Parody 35.6% ★, Memes 29.1%, Precision Platformer 16.8%, Platformer 8.1%, Narration 4.2%

A punishing VR climbing game. Climb a surreal mountain with nothing but a hammer.

Why similar: Difficult 29.6%, Physics 23.8%, Psychological Horror 22%, Platformer 9.3%, Indie 4.1%

Be the weapon! Swing like an axe, thrust like a spear, and soar like an arrow in this physics-based platformer. Flip, throw, and carve your path to the peak! Rage burns, revenge awaits... Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 33.7%, Difficult 26.4%, Physics 23.5%, Platformer 10.9%, Casual 3.1%

Go Home, Mr. Fisk! is a challenging (im)precision platformer, where a single mistake may bring you all the way back to the beginning. Mr. Fisk must make his way up a mountain to get back home to his lake, but climbing is a challenge for a salmon not used to moving on dry land.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.5%, Surreal 19.7%, Physics 17.8%, Platformer 13.1%, Memes 12.9%

Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.

Why similar: Physics 33.6%, Difficult 31.1%, Platformer 11%, Action 10.7%, Indie 5.7%

Master momentum in this unique jumping game that features no jump button! Preserve your potential energy and fall to new heights as you solve these clever puzzles and maneuver your way to victory.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 28%, Difficult 19.6%, Physics 17.5%, Platformer 13.6%, Family Friendly 9.4%

One mountain; Zero checkpoints

Why similar: Precision Platformer 48.1%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Platformer 19.5%, Physics 8.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%

An absurd retro-platformer that tests your patience.

Why similar: Difficult 41.4%, Platformer 28.3%, Old School 9.2%, Action 9%, Indie 7.7%