An iOS game? Being regarded as a hidden gem?! Crazy as though it seems, somewhere amongst the septic wasteland of micro-transactions and glorified slot machines that is 99% of mobile titles, there stands Desert Golf, a game that redefines the word 'minimalist' by putting an exquisitely perfected physics engine to the front of the experience. With a screen completely devoid of HUD elements and the simple goal being to get a tiny dot of a golf ball into a hole on the other side, it's that ball-in-a-cup simplicity that challenges all of us to at least have a go. As soon as you do you'll kickstart an ongoing, procedurally-generated landscape that changes with every hole, and a score-tracker that never resets. The game's creator Justin Smith has mentioned you can go all the way up to and past 5000 holes, all different in their approach and all almost indescribably satisfying to play - the way you can master how the level of 'stickiness' the ball has on the sand effects everything is just perfect, for example. It's completely left-field, but for everything mobile titles need to be both easily-accessible and fiendishly addictive, Desert Golf ticks both boxes with a feather-topped pen.
