Twelve kinds of taste
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Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Horror
Liminal space game with focus on eerie exploration and immersion instead of typical horror. Navigate through endless alike rooms. Explore, orient, get out.
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Contemplative, inward, dark and cryptic.
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GameGrinDylan PamintuanMay 20249/10POOLS is not for the easily anxious, even if there's nothing in the water to pull you down. The sounds alone will make you fear the depths. You should
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WellPlayedJames WoodMay 20248.5/10POOLS is an impressively immersive and harrowing trudge through waters that threaten to drown you in its high fidelity, unsettling take on the limenal space horror genre.
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GameSpewRichard SeagraveApr 20248/10Some players will find Pools relaxing. Others will find it unsettling. Whatever the case, it's compelling from beginning to end. The only disappointment is that it's so short.
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IGDB rating 8.2/10 from 22 ratings.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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