One year ago, we unveiled the very first playtest of Pool of Madness during Lovecraftian Days - after just a month of development. With LD 2025 upon us, it felt like the perfect opportunity to showcase the latest playtest. So here we are!

Simply click on download the demo to play.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2873750

• a short introductory ritual for new players
  
  
• initial foundations for a boss fight (early WIP) and ritual progression mechanics
  
  
• item viewing mechanics and first interactive items (look around the room from time to time)
  
  
• many under-the-hood improvements and bugfixes
  
  

Thank you to Fulqrum Publishing for shining a light on our games and charity efforts!

As always, all feedback is welcome - leave us a comment on our Steam forums or
discord [discord.gg]- it will help us improve the game!

Please note that this is an early playtest and bugs are still to be expected!

PS Don't forget to check out the totems (the eye-in-hand things) - they add another fun layer to the
gameplay!

Occultists! We've just released a limited playtest of our roguelite combining pool and cosmic horror.

It features single-player and coop modes, made especially for Steam Couch Co-op Fest!



store.steampowered.com/app/2873750/pool_of_madness/



Think Inscryption meets Diablo/PoE meets a twisted game of pool. A unique experience with lots of mystery, emergent gameplay and endless replayability. That's the goal for the full version of the game.

While this is the first stab at a PoM multiplayer mode and we expect A LOT to change, we feel it's already fun and we could really use your feedback as we continue building Pool of Madness into our dream game.

This is definitely one of our favourite projects we've worked on and the most unique one, so it's great to see players already appreciating the core features!

PS It works great on Steam Deck!


Changes from the previous limited playtest include:
- a hotseat coop mode featuring a new totem
- new powerups
- completely new UI (still WIP, similarly to other features)
- premium pockets (that will feature increasing modifiers later down the line)
- many bugfixes


We're currently focusing on making the gameplay as much fun as possible, testing out different ideas and features, as well as working on the story in parallel. This is why these imperfect playtests are so important, as they allow us to gather feedback from players around the world while the game is still in development.

Things will be rough for a while in terms of the overall presentation, until we're satisfied with the gameplay part and implement & test various features, then we'll begin focusing more on the audiovisual side of things.

Thank you for taking the time to check out this crazy abomination our eldritch baby of a game! We think we have something really special here - we'd love you to help us shape it!

Want more forbidden knowledge? Check the Steam description!