Liminal space game with focus on eerie exploration and immersion instead of typical horror. Navigate through endless alike rooms. Explore, orient, get out.
Playing in VR while stoned is the definitive way to experience POOLS.
I love Poolrooms-style Backrooms levels the endless glossy white tiles, the crystal-blue water, and that surreal feeling of wandering through corridors that seem to shift and change around you.
There’s something strangely peaceful about it. The silence, the reflections, the endless passages... it feels unsettling and comforting at the same time, almost...
I love this game and it's my favourite liminal space/backrooms game to date.
The rooms are beautiful and the game gives you time to enjoy exploring without feeling like you have to rush due to a monster chasing you.
There's also plenty of settings to play around with the graphics which was nice.
The horror is very understated all-throughout the game....
This game brings me a strange sense of comfort. I don't really know how to explain it, but it evokes a deep childhood nostalgia of going to the pool, whether at water parks on vacation or just the local swimming pool. These are places that strangely soothe me. Yet, at the same time, there is this lingering sense of unease, just like in everything related...
filled me with a sense of serenity and dread like no other. i loved it! I personally love the concept of the poolrooms, and getting to explore as a low stakes environment was absolutely what I'd hoped for from the game. really cool visuals and all around a good experience :) the only thing I'll say is that I did have to use a guide for chapter 4 because...
