CasualIndie
4D Golf
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 77% of owners
Steam reviews 98% positive of 815
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 15 reviews are negative (7%); after 5h it's no one (0%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 95% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 77% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 829 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 6.3h for positive, 1.1h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (76.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (26)
- Open Your Third Eye Complete the tutorial 100%
- Sands of Time Complete Dunes Course 71%
- Tip of the Iceberg Complete Arctic Course 57%
- Forest for the Trees Complete Evergreens Challenge 56%
- Avant-Garde Complete Mezzanine Course 50%
- Hot Diggity! Ball fell into lava 47%
- The Floor is Lava Complete Inferno Course 46%
- Reach for the Stars Complete Nebula Course 43%
- Open Your Eyes Complete Beyond Course 39%
- Ye Mighty And Despair Complete Dunes Challenge 36%
- Connoisseur Take a tour through the Mezzanine 31%
- Break the Ice Complete Arctic Challenge 29%
- Get The Ball Rolling Complete a course in marble mode 27%
- Magnum Opus Complete Mezzanine Challenge 26%
- Great Balls of Fire Complete Inferno Challenge 23%
- The Final Frontier Complete Nebula Challenge 22%
- Dimension Drifter Complete Beyond Challenge 18%
- Hole in One Get a hole in one 18%
- 30-Birdie Get 30 birdies (or better) 17%
- Meet Your Maker Create a custom level 17%
- Transcendent Complete all courses 16%
- Albatross Around the Neck Get an albatross (or better) 14%
- The Eagle has Landed Get 10 eagles (or better) 10%
- Going Pro Complete every hole at par or better 5.2%
- Perfection Complete every hole under par 4.4%
- For All the Marbles Complete all holes in Marble Mode at par or better 4.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.