sweet pool
Fair · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.7h 12.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.06/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 513 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $17.26 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
As madness and horror devour his world, can Youji find hope amid the nightmare? Experience a bond deeper and darker than love in this unforgettable visual novel.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB VRAM, PixelShader 3.0, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
49 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. The nearest things to it, The Medium ($49.99, scores 46) and Just Ignore Them ($0.75, scores 37), are both worse buys on this math.
More about sweet pool
Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
25% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 07:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
sweet pool made me cry i love this nitro chiral vn its probably my fav and i think everyone should play this at least 5 times in their life my fav endings r the miracles may violin and the red road bc tetsuo is my fav obv and this game was just so emotional like idk how to express my eternal love and affection for this visual novel it was truly a major event in my life and i hope i don't ever forget about this game...
2 more reviews
this is absolutely fantastic, i highly HIGHLY recommend buying the uncensored patch off of the JAST website as without it the game becomes severely disjointed and you do not get anywhere near the full experience however that is a problem within steam and not with the VN itself. The content throughout will tug at your heartstrings and really make you feel for every single character. One of the best VNs i have ever...
This game is beautifully tragic. 10/10. But the current version is absolutely unplayable after you unlock an ending due to visual studio errors. I have spent 48 hours trying to fix them and it still is happening. Please avoid buying this version until Jast announces a patch. Do not know if the errors also appear in the Jast version.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
sweet pool scores 66/100 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/852910/sweet-poolReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.