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POOLS

Tensori · 2024-04-26

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 26, 2024 (SteamVR), Apr 26, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 26, 2024 (Mac), Nov 25, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Nov 25, 2025 (PlayStation VR2), Feb 26, 2026 (Nintendo Switch)

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

41
playing now
95%
positive of 6.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
IGDB user rating (21 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.87
steam price (US)

41 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Pools is a 2024 horror walking simulator developed by Finnish developer Tensori for Windows, macOS, iOS and Linux. It is an interactive adaptation of the liminal space phenomenon "The Poolrooms" by Jared Pike, which gained popularity online since 2022. The game is set in a vast, labyrinthine pool complex.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 41 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,180 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~148/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 133k–299k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,639 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$7.95-19%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.95-19%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.89 at Steam (2026-03-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.79 · on sale 45 of 66 observed days · $3.06 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20242026Week of 2024-04-01: 696 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,142 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 393 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 260 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 216 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

43112026-08-11 20:00 — 12 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 25 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 17 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 12 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 23 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 14 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 20 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 16 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 18 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 20 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 24 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 11 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 16 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 12 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 20 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 27 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 40 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 43 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 23 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 29 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 29 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 34 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 30 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 39 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 25 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 28 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 34 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 41 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.79$4.892024-04-262026-08-302024-04-26 — best price $8.812024-07-22 — best price $7.832024-10-23 — best price $9.792024-11-28 — best price $9.792024-12-19 — best price $7.832025-01-14 — best price $7.832025-01-27 — best price $9.792025-03-13 — best price $7.342025-04-14 — best price $9.792025-05-01 — best price $9.792025-05-28 — best price $9.792025-06-16 — best price $9.792025-07-18 — best price $9.792025-08-01 — best price $9.792025-09-08 — best price $7.342025-09-25 — best price $7.342025-10-08 — best price $9.792025-10-28 — best price $7.342025-11-17 — best price $6.362025-12-11 — best price $5.872026-01-05 — best price $9.792026-02-04 — best price $9.792026-03-03 — best price $6.362026-03-19 — best price $6.852026-04-14 — best price $7.852026-04-23 — best price $7.952026-05-25 — best price $7.952026-06-17 — best price $7.952026-07-17 — best price $9.792026-08-23 — best price $9.792026-08-29 — best price $7.952026-08-30 — best price $7.95
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

470832026-05-29 — 281 pageviews2026-06-01 — 405 pageviews2026-06-04 — 346 pageviews2026-06-07 — 355 pageviews2026-06-10 — 318 pageviews2026-06-13 — 172 pageviews2026-06-16 — 201 pageviews2026-06-19 — 207 pageviews2026-06-22 — 470 pageviews2026-06-25 — 166 pageviews2026-06-28 — 138 pageviews2026-07-01 — 290 pageviews2026-07-04 — 141 pageviews2026-07-07 — 137 pageviews2026-07-10 — 196 pageviews2026-07-13 — 174 pageviews2026-07-16 — 204 pageviews2026-07-19 — 338 pageviews2026-07-22 — 188 pageviews2026-07-25 — 169 pageviews2026-07-28 — 178 pageviews2026-07-31 — 197 pageviews2026-08-03 — 241 pageviews2026-08-06 — 173 pageviews2026-08-09 — 137 pageviews2026-08-12 — 105 pageviews2026-08-15 — 118 pageviews2026-08-18 — 98 pageviews2026-08-21 — 135 pageviews2026-08-24 — 124 pageviews2026-08-26 — 107 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
73.7%
earned "#1"
10%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

29 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,75610%24
PS5, PS VR2 (PlayStation)68142%25
Switch (Nintendo)80%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DIndieSurrealRelaxingAdventureImmersiveNonlinearRealisticMinimalistAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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