What if I was to tell you there was not one but two free online anime-themed golf sim/rpg games? Chances are you’d be pretty surprised. We have the overwhelming popularity of asian MMORPG’s to thank for this. These companies are still trying to figure out how to crack the North American market and so far their strategies have largely involved variations on the ‘eh, we will give it away for free for now and figure out how to charge for it later.’ As far as I can tell this hasn’t worked out for them yet, but hey, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. If you’re into golf these are both worth trying. Your options are Shot-online and Albatross 18 – Realms of Pangya. Care to guess which of those has the more over-the-top anime look to it? It can be worth getting over the aesthetics of the games though – I’ve been a fan of the long running Hotshots golf series and these games are both thematically similar. Once you get over the anime look, at core they have fun twitch-based arcade style golf gameplay. If that sounds like it would appeal to you, check em out, all it will cost you is some time.