Platforms
- PCApr 26, 2024NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.56.78K Players
- PlayStation 5Nov 25, 2025NAplayscoreNA0 CriticsNA0 Players
- Nintendo SwitchFeb 26, 2026NAplayscoreNA0 CriticsNA0 Players
4 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- POOLS is an impressively immersive and harrowing trudge through waters that threaten to drown you in its high fidelity, unsettling take on the limenal space horror genre.
James Wood · May 24, 2024 Reviewed on PCRead full review - A short but impressively realised walking simulator that will unnervingly delight many and disappoint some, POOLS is a purely experiential liminal piece of media. Like all of its halls and corridors, you may wonder where the end goal is, or where the purpose lies. But that’s precisely the purpose of the liminal – to focus on emotion and feeling, even if that’s slightly undermined by its structural design.
Miles Thompson · May 21, 2024 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Few games let you experience the true horrors of an empty, slightly dilapidated council swimming pool, and for that, Pools must be commended. Much like those public swimming baths, it was rare that anything bad would happen, padding about those echoey chambers of tile and chlorine in the small hours. But the unsettling feeling that something might, that vague threat hanging in the air and sloshing against the walls, was always present. And anchored somewhere between walking simulator and urbex video, the trend of internet idiots poking round abandoned structures, Pools is compelling.
Josh Wise · May 10, 2024 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Como la propia moda en la que hunde sus raíces, POOLS acaba teniendo la mecha algo más corta de lo que quizá puede llegar a parecer cuando es un «juego liminal», cuando vive en ese espacio intermedio entre la realidad y la ficción que es un vídeo de TikTok o una demo de Steam; pero con todo es una experiencia bien calculada, diseñada siguiendo con un rigor en ocasiones formidable las limitaciones que le impone su tema, que ofrece un par de horas de inquietud e incluso tensión para fans de las malas vibras que busquen algo diferente a los sustos fáciles o los lobos feroces que solemos ver en videojuegos. Imagino que Marc Augé podría sentir algo parecido a la fascinación jugando a este POOLS, un juego que, como una sala de espera o un aeropuerto, no espera de ti que te quedes mucho rato, sino que estés de paso, que no es ni aquí ni allí: es lo que hay en medio.
Víctor Martínez · May 14, 2024 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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