POOLS

Hello, PC & PCVR players, you haven’t been forgotten! The VR experience has gotten a complete graphics overhaul. The new version of VR mode on PC is now much more performant so if you’ve had any issues running it before, now is a good time to give it a new try. On flatscreen mode we decided to roll back to using Unity’s own SSGI instead of the previously implemented GI solution. This leads to the lighting looking a bit different in some areas. The decision was made because of unsolved compatibility issues on some systems and to make the project easier to maintain. If any of you prefer the look or feel of the earlier version of POOLS either in flatscreen or VR, we will leave it up to be downloaded from Steam (instructions at the end of this message). Personally we prefer the look and performance of the latest update though! Along with this update we want to wish happy holidays and new year to all of you who celebrate! Thank you so much for supporting us! Full changelog: VR: Complete performance overhaul with URP rendering pipelineUpdated lighting to Unity’s SSGI instead of HTrace WSGIUpdated Unity engine version (Fixes CVE-2025-59489 Unity Runtime Vulnerability)Added barefoot fo

Full changelog: Chapter 0: Fixed hotel doors sometimes opening to wrong directions Added "deletePlayerPref" command to the developer console - Example: "deletePlayerPref vr-tracking-origin-mode" command restores the VR tracking mode back to seated mode (VR) Improved standing / roomscale VR tracking mode - reduces the chances of camera getting stuck on the floor when enabling the setting (VR) Fixed bugs related to water slide entering: players could get stuck inside the environment, players wouldn't be teleported to the exit position when the "skip water slides" setting was enabled (VR) Added a tiny bit of smoothing to free movement to help eliminate judder (VR) Optimized some volumetric effects in Chapter 0 (VR) Added "haptics intensity" slider to gameplay setting (VR) Disabled transparent material screen space reflections because of compatibility issue with water surface shader We are investigating and pursuing performance optimizations with the goal of switching the rendering mode to multi-pass rendering in the future. Screen space water reflections do not have the misalignment issue when using multi-pass rendering, but it does come wi

PC VR mode is out now as a free update! Full changelog Windows: Add PC VR support Add view distance setting Chapter 2: restored "Look At" event functionality to the statue surrounded by plastic chairs Chapter 2: possibly make Anatidaephobia easier to trigger Linux: Fix crash at the end of chapter 6 which caused ch0 to not unlock Note: For Linux and Mac users; the VR is not officially supported, but might work. Feedback appreciated

Full changelog: Chapter 0: improved audio stability and performance - should fix most audio crackling issues Chapter 0: fixed missing audio clip variant for "Laminate" surface type footstep Patch is now out on Windows and Linux. Mac version will be updated as soon as we can.