POOOOL
Fair · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.9h 18.2h to 100%
- Value
- $5.54/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 277 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.03 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.24 (75% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
POOOOL is a small, pool-inspired physics puzzler where you combine balls of similar sizes to create even bigger ones, all while trying to save room for more. Chase your hi-score, share scores with friends, and master your flinging skills!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB), 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 11 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! ($1.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! ($9.99, scores 21).
More about POOOOL
Of the 262 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 144 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.9 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 20 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
87% start to 16% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
As much as I like playing with balls, POOOOL left me with a case of the blues. This looked like a fun little time-waster. "Got 5 minutes to spare? Play around with some balls!" Well, it's not really like that. Games can take a decent chunk of time, and the beginning minutes are always the most tedious and inconsequential. There's some skill to the gameplay, but that is somewhat offset by elements out of your...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
There is nothing to unlock or any way to progress, so it's very much what you see is what you get. If you like the type of game, it's probably fine. I don't think there's enough content to be sold for 5 dollars normally.
This is exactly like the Suika game but with an additional pool aspect to it. Very simple no thoughts head empty gameplay.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
POOOOL scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2935840/poooolReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.