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Mobile game · 2019

What the Golf?

The golf game for people who hate golf. A silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd they will make you go: What the golf!

Estimated daily players

~38,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 770310K

Estimated total players

~760,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 77K2.1M

See what's trending

Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Sep 19, 2019iOSPEGI EACB GUSK 6CERO AGRAC AllESRB 16

What the estimate rests on

  • Steam 43%
  • App Store 33%
  • Reddit 12%
  • YouTube 12%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play What the Golf?, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on App Store, Steam, Reddit, YouTube, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~38,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 770310K

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~760,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 77K2.1M

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Estimated daily players over time

from live counts

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for What the Golf? per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~1,300,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed What the Golf? where it is sold.

App Store ratings

34,741

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.9

Ratings left on the iOS listing, read from Apple’s public lookup endpoint.

Steam players in game

18

Reviews
4,770

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Only the games with a PC port appear here, but where Steam does report it is a real concurrent-player count rather than a proxy for one.

Community signals

How many people gather around What the Golf? outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Reddit members

1,107

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Subscribers to the game’s subreddit.

YouTube subscribers

10,500

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Subscribers to the game’s official channel. The API quota is shared, so this refreshes daily for the highest-scoring games rather than for all of them.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
1

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for What the Golf?: Google Play, Discord. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

The golf game for people who hate golf! A silly physics-based anti-golf game where you get to golf anything. Every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd they will make you go: WHAT THE GOLF? Golf is always the same: perfectly round balls, 18 holes, blue sky, neatly cut grass and fancy people in nice clothes. What's not to hate? – Hate no more!

Trailers

Trailer

Announcement Trailer

Launch Trailer

Release Date Trailer

Screenshots

Frequently asked questions

How many people play What the Golf??

We estimate that about 760,000 people have played What the Golf? — plausibly between 77K and 2.1M. Around 38,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 770 and 310K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on App Store, Steam, Reddit, YouTube and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is What the Golf? still active?

Yes. What the Golf? is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the What the Golf? player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

How big is the What the Golf? Reddit community?

What the Golf? has 1,107 members on Reddit, as of August 9, 2026.

How big is the What the Golf? YouTube community?

What the Golf? has 10,500 subscribers on YouTube, as of August 9, 2026.

When was What the Golf? released?

What the Golf? was released on September 19, 2019 for iOS.

What platforms is What the Golf? available on?

What the Golf? is available on iOS. You can get it from Google Play and App Store (iPhone).

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