Five Years of Walkabout (by the Numbers)

A Whole World of Walkabout

Thank you so much for playing Walkabout Mini Golf over the past five years!

Since release on September 24, 2020, we’ve increased the amount of content and experiences with each update, including events, challenges, new game modes, modifiers, lore, avatar packs, and quality of life features. These enhancements aim to ensure that the game remains a compelling, persistent experience where players can meet up, challenge themselves and one another, and choose any number of adventures together. 

“We’re so grateful to our players for allowing us to keep this game growing. Everything you see in Walkabout has been funded 100% by people purchasing the game, courses and growing our community by telling others!” said Lucas Martell, CEO and creator of Walkabout Mini Golf. “In addition to an ongoing pipeline of courses planned through 2026 and beyond, we’ve got some exciting enhancements coming by year’s end.”

While we work to prepare these enhancements and additions, we wanted to take a moment to look at our numbers and recap what our incredible players have been able to accomplish thus far!

The Numbers

Walkabout Mini Golf has built a loyal, multigenerational audience in over 40 countries! That’s an incredibly large number! If that’s not big enough, our players have spent an astonishing 23,004,672 hours in the game thus far. That is 26 CENTURIES of virtual mini golf!

Here’s some other key statistics:

  • We’ve recently surpassed 2 Billion Putts

  • Total Sessions Played: 43,365,815

  • Total Foxhunt Clues Found: Approximately 55 Million

  • Lost Balls Found: Approximately 84 Million

  • Grip-to-Puppets Deployed: 1,178,475

  • 393.4 square kilometers (97,000 acres) of explorable areas (this is larger than Detroit!), of which over 105,000 square meters (26 acres) are where the greens, interior spaces, and the curated "Walkabout path" reside

  • Most difficult hole: Cherry Blossom Hard 18

  • Most hole-in-one'd hole: Mars Gardens Easy 15

Each course (available for $3.99 USD) includes 18 easy mode and 18 hard mode hole designs, robust and fully explorable environments, 18 individually designed collectible lost balls, and a themed putter to use in game. By the release of Walkabout Mini Golf: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (our 37th course), the game will have 1,332 holes to master, over 650 balls to find, and over 40 commemorative putters from which to choose.

Social play is very popular with Walkabout Mini Golf players, with over 55% of VR sessions being multiplayer and a 2-Hour Usage Rate for more than 50% of users (which is around 10 times the standard). Our golfers are playing Walkabout Mini Golf until their battery runs out! Now with Pocket Edition on iOS globally, the community has expanded to include friends, family, and colleagues on iPhones and iPads.

We’ve also steadily grown to be a player favorite and system seller, with a nearly perfect five-star rating and over 13,000 reviews on Meta Quest—making it the best-rated multiplayer game on Quest and Steam platforms as well as a top 20 selling PlayStation VR2 title since launch. The game is now the 20th best selling title of all time for Meta Quest.

Beyond the game experience, players can celebrate their memories and achievements with Walkabout Mini Golf’s three volumes of streaming soundtracks plus a book of sheet music, a coloring book, collectible mini figurines, the Grip-to-Putter custom controller accessory, a line of merchandise, the Walkabout Talkabouts podcast series, and many communities and tournaments in various languages.

We cannot express how appreciative we were to see these numbers. As much as we love creating new worlds to explore and play in, those worlds would never come to fruition without our players. Thank you so much for supporting us, and we cannot wait to continue to show you what Walkabout Mini Golf has in store!

Nate Porteous