Walkabout Mini Golf — The Best Multiplayer VR Game Nobody Talks About

I need to tell you about Walkabout Mini Golf. Not because it’s the flashiest VR game, or the most technically impressive, or the one that’ll make your jaw drop. Because it’s the one I play most. By a wide margin.

Every Thursday night, three friends and I put on our headsets and play mini golf together. We’ve been doing this for months. We live in three different states. The rounds last about 45 minutes and they’re the highlight of my week. I’m not exaggerating.

The Game

It’s mini golf. 18 holes per course, you putt a ball, try to get it in the hole in as few strokes as possible. You hold your controller like a putter and swing. That’s it.

What makes Walkabout special is everything around that simple mechanic.

The Courses Are Incredible

Each course has a theme — pirate cove, haunted mansion, Mesoamerican ruins, a miniaturized space station, the Upside Down (yes, there’s a Stranger Things collab). The environments are detailed, colorful, and full of hidden stuff. Secret balls hidden behind rocks. Easter eggs tucked in corners. Alternate paths through holes if you find them.

The level design is genuinely creative. Holes wind through caves, over waterfalls, across moving platforms, through teleporters. It’s not just “flat surface with obstacle.” Each hole feels designed with care, and the difficulty ranges from relaxing to absolutely maddening depending on the course.

There are over 20 courses now between the base game and DLC. I haven’t gotten bored.

Multiplayer Is the Whole Point

You can play solo. It’s fine. But Walkabout is a multiplayer game at heart. Up to five players per lobby, cross-play between Quest and PC, and the social experience is where it shines.

There’s voice chat. You hear your friends. You trash-talk bad putts. You celebrate hole-in-ones. You spend five minutes trying to make a ridiculous bank shot while everyone watches and commentates. It’s the closest thing to hanging out in person that VR offers.

The lobby system is simple — create a room, share a code, friends join. No accounts to link, no friend lists to manage, no matchmaking queues. It respects your time.

Why It Works for Non-Gamers

I’ve gotten my partner to play Walkabout. My partner does not play video games. Doesn’t own a console. Has never willingly touched a controller. But put a virtual putter in their hand and suddenly they’re competitive, laughing, and asking “can we play one more course?”

Mini golf is universal. Everyone understands it. The VR control — swing the controller like a putter — is intuitive. There’s no learning curve, no button combos, no aiming reticles. Swing. Hit ball. That’s the interface.

This makes it the best VR game for groups that include non-gamers. Holiday gatherings, parties, any situation where you want people to try VR without scaring them with a complex game.

Tiny Complaints

The physics are 95% great. Occasionally a putt that looks perfect will bounce weird, or a ball will stop on a slope where it shouldn’t. It’s rare enough that it might be me misjudging the shot, but I’ve seen enough borderline moments to think the physics engine has quirks.

Solo play is relaxing but lacks the social energy that makes the game special. I wouldn’t recommend Walkabout as a solo-only experience. It’s good. With friends, it’s great.

The DLC Model

Base game is $14.99 with several courses included. Additional courses are $3-4 each. The value is excellent — each course provides hours of replay across multiple difficulty modes (hard mode adds harder pin positions and secret challenges). I’ve spent maybe $40 total including DLC and I’ve gotten more hours of enjoyment from it than games that cost twice that.

My Verdict

Five out of five. The first game I’ve given a perfect score. Not because Walkabout Mini Golf is flawless — the physics quirks exist and solo play is just okay. But because no VR game has given me more genuine joy. The social experience, the course design, the accessibility, the value — it all adds up to something special.

If you own a Quest and have friends with headsets, buy this game. Tonight. Thank me Thursday.