Pool Panic
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 7.1h 16.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.11/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 405 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 127 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
Pool Panic is an unconventional billiards game with something new around every corner. It's the world's least realistic pool simulator!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 28 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 18 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 31 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Full Metal Furies ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ 2 - Turbocharged ($39.99, scores 30).
More about Pool Panic
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 7.1 hours. Doing everything runs 16, 2.3 times as long.
At 7.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
62% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 22:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This was the fastest 7 hours ever. Pure happiness. I didn't get to unlock about 25% of the map, and I'm leaving it unfinished still satisfied. You unlock areas by getting trophies. There are four trophies per level, one for under time, amount of shots, don't get the white ball in, and getting all the balls in. I managed only "clearing the table". The others are pointless. It's confusing the whole way through with no...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pool Panic scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/522240/pool-panicReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.