POOLS™

This was actually a great game! I haven’t purchased the full game but from what I played it was really cool and interesting. I love how open and free it is, letting you explore a maze of rooms and I love how it shows horror, not in a concrete thing or specific monster but in the unknown, in dark passageways, in sudden sounds or screeches or clatters as though your not truly alone, spaced out just enough to keep surprising you, to keep you on your toes. The sound design of this game was amazing. So were the actual rooms. And I felt like I was slowly going insane as I got lost looping the same passageways over and over again only to turn the corner and find a new breathtaking room. Peak experience. I feel like this is one of the best liminal space games on the market. As far as crashing and not loading goes, I haven’t experienced it. Well I admit the game is hard to leave (escape won’t work and you have to press a button to open all your windows to leave the browser) and still needs force quitting on top of that, its still manageable.

This is one of those games I just happened to find while doom scrolling on the App Store on the iPad. I am so glad I came across it. I didn’t know at first you had to pay for the whole game, but once I had the free playthrough I was hooked and bought it right there, no questions asked. The graphics were amazing, the type of thrill it gave at times was the perfect amount and at the right times and overall the artwork depicted in the game was beautiful. I caught myself going off track just to get a closer look a few times. Bravo- this game definitely shocked me in the best way.

I got this game yesterday and I played for awhile with my siblings watching me. I never knew how good it was until I got to the hole…😀 but before I get to the hole part- I was actually playing this on the bus! I had my headphones on and was very immersed :) but then I heard a deep rumbling noise and got scared so I decided to not scream on the bus and listen to music- but back to the hole. I started playing again and my little sister was watching me! We were at the part with the water maze and we saw an exit sign and said “oh look an exit.” Once I got closer to the hole in the water we saw hands coming out, I immediately turned off my phone and started playing Japanese music- me and my sister were terrified. But after a while from me having a laughing attack on the couch, I started to play again. We noticed there was another exit so we were scared for no reason- overall, a really great game but…are you sure it’s not scary?😭