Orbital Golf 2K27

The shot

• Press and hold on empty space to grow a black hole. Let go to place it.
• Tap a hole to change its mass with − and + (or the − + keys, or scroll over it). Drag it, or use the arrow keys, to move it. Tab picks a hole from the keyboard. Double-tap or × to delete.
• The flight plan shows the start of your ship's path, then fades out. The rest is your read of the gravity. A red X means it crashes early.
• Launch. Gravity does the rest.
• Steer a little mid-flight: hold the mouse or your finger to push toward it, or hold an arrow key to push the ship that way on screen. You get half a second of RCS fuel: enough to nudge, not to rescue. A shot with no steering pays a small pure gravity bonus.

Par is mass

• Every hole has a par in solar masses (SM). Dock using less gravity than par for a birdie, eagle or albatross.
• Retries are free. Crash, miss, tweak, relaunch. Only your winning shot counts, and you can always try again for a better score.
• Stuck? The caddie sets up a safe line (it costs credits on tour).

Career

• Start as a Private. Win holes to earn XP and credits, and climb to Galactic Space Emperor.
• Each sector is a starmap. Pick your route through holes, uncharted holes, elite holes, shops and anomalies.
• A rival guards the end of every sector. Beat their mass to move on.
• Spend credits on sponsor deals (upgrades for this career) and ship parts (yours forever).

Grades

Hazards

• Planets and moons pull, and they're solid.
• Wild black holes pull hard. Cross a horizon and you're spaghetti.
• White holes push you away.
• Wormholes send you out of their twin at the same speed.
• Asteroids are solid and have no pull.

Objectives

• Dock: reach the station's ring.
• Delivery: collect every cargo pod first. The station stays locked until then.
• Orbit: complete one lap inside the gold ring.
• Figure 8: a lap around one world, then a lap the other way around its twin.

Space launch · Z undo · R clear · C caddie · Q polarity · ← → gimbal (on the pad) · Tab pick a hole · ↑ ↓ ← → move it (Shift faster) · + − its mass · Del remove it · ↑ ↓ ← → push the ship (in flight) · Shift bullet time · F fast forward · Esc retry or pause · M mute