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.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.57/day in the week to Aug 22 → 5/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $9.79 | 6.7Kreviews | 95% | — | $1.1M |
| $9.99 | 3.3Kratings | 84% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 287 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
非常牛逼
牛逼。
Not sure what to make of this. It's a walking simulator with enough triggered sound effects and events to keep it eerie and interesting... but not nearly enough unique markings to deliver any kind of story. Finished my first play-through. Rather short, only a couple hours. I would recommend getting this on sale. Haven't played a walking simulator before... was kind of expecting more... I'll need to give it another go but in VR next time. It's not bad... I guess it's kind of different. While I wasn't bored, I wasn't overly entertained either.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Arabic*, Bulgarian*, Czech*, Danish*, Dutch*, Finnish*, Greek* +18 more
| $6.85−30% |
| 62ratings |
| 90% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $9.79 | — | 78%* | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 287 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Game was graphically amazing. 10/10. Eeriness throughout the game the whole time.
boring walking simulator 40fps chug-a-thon. find the exit simulator.
Surreal and great. Sometimes pretty scary, but mostly fascinating. A dream world. You want this game.
very good
atmospherically pleasing. amazing graphics and sounds! hardly encountered something quite as surrounding in any other game. yet it seems to lack something. cant pinpoint it. was underwhelming and crazy scary playing into phobias at the same time in specific chapters. special warning for level 0 without spoilers! don't expect anything crazy but its eerily unsettling...
个人认为该游戏是池核领域的一大神作！无论是从室内设计、细节、质感、还是光影方面来看都做得非常精美且有创意，恐怖程度也在本人的接受范围之内。而且看得出游戏是想讲一个故事，而非单纯的散步探险模拟器。配乐和脚步声的代入感也很强。更新的第0关在保持原作水平的基础上更添几分心理恐怖，还尝试了室外的夜间工业池核。总而言之，POOLS真的非常值得推荐！如果有新的关卡，期待一下晴朗的室外池核或是工作室新作 : )。
I've watched videos on YouTube about Pools, liminal spaces, and the backrooms (and phobias in general). I was curious to play one of these types of games and see how I felt about it. The result? It's pretty cool! While I don't get scared very easily in video games, Pools does have an unnerving atmosphere (especially Chapter 0). However, what I enjoy the most about this game is not its unsettling nature, but its overall architecture and design. I play video games mostly for the gameplay, but every now-and-then a video game will standout in regards to its design, and Pools is one of those games. The layout of the maze in each chapter is stunning and a work of art. Sure, the phobias of tight spaces and water might make it hard for some people to enjoy the visuals, but I recommend playing this game for its design. This is a very unique video game and I rarely play games that capture atmosphere and design so well. Yes, it's a 'walking simulator.' So don't expect any action. It's pure psychological atmosphere with excellent architectural design.
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