Ghost in the pool
Skip · Narrative · 2021
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$3.99Skip
On its price record
$2.02Fair
- Length
- 1h 2.6h to 100%
- Value
- $3.99/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 356 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.02 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
A bizarre campus legend, take you into the traditional Japanese black-and-white comic horror story. Witness the familiar scenes and contemplate the terrifying moments.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256M, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
Across all 62 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. On the same math Gorogoa ($3.74, scores 98) and Unforeseen Incidents ($19.99, scores 58) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Ghost in the pool
This site sampled 299 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 182 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 61 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
93% start to 7% 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
Brief yet well written horror story in junji ito style. To the point of almost being a knock off. Main flaw would be backtracking mid game, clearly a filler could have been executed better but can't complain given it's a tiny project. For this price it's all good
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this was the very first game i bought in steam and the reason i downlaoded steam years ago, so i love it and will love it no matter what. but aside from that, i think the game is beautiful in most ways. mostly the art style, i LOVE it. yes, game may be slow, short and all but the story is good imo. i havent played the remastered version yet, so these are my opinions for the old version, but im sure the remastered...
Even some free horror visual novels can give you much more experience than that. Just an ordinary dull urban legend. Strange drawing + senseless story = Ghost in the pool
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ghost in the pool scores 43/100 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/919330/ghost-in-the-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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.