Super Stickman Golf 3+ in Apple Arcade

★★★★★ Mediocre game hampered by Apple Arcade exclusivity

This is a pretty mediocre game, it's something I play whenever I'm waiting for something else. The courses are decent, they introduce some decent mechanics and they have their own gimmicks. The shooting mechanics aren't good, and basically relies on muscle memory instead of skill. It'd be a little better if you could cancel a shot, and if there was a tracer coming from your arrow (though, there are hats that fix that last one.) The loot box mechanic is still present, though you can't buy cash anymore. This is good because there's no direct gambling, but it's also bad because it forces the unchanged grind on you. The only way you could get cash is if you get the bucks randomly floating around the courses (which should never be done in serious rounds,) if you win a multiplayer game (if you're lucky enough to find one,) or if you trial and error your way through the daily race (which is slow and inefficient.) The turn based multiplayer rounds work well enough, but I can't really say how good the race mode works. I've never gotten a single player to join me. I'm not sure how many people are playing the normal version of this game, but if this version only allows you to play with other Apple Arcade members, the user base here might be much smaller. I wouldn't expect much from this game, maybe you'll find something you could do to kill time while you're waiting for a different game to load, or maybe you'll find some kind of niche. Either way, there are most certainly better golf games out there.