Games like Poolcore
If Poolcore is your kind of game, the closest matches are Backrooms: The M.E.G., All That Time and Exit_ComputerLab — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Poolcore: Poolcore is an atmospheric game about liminal poolrooms. Jump into the water, solve puzzles and roam freely in these eerily comforting rooms.
Players who liked Poolcore also play
Steam players who put hours into Poolcore also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Backrooms: The M.E.G.
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Top pick for Poolcore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
You are a MEG explorer seeking to uncover every accessible level and sub-level of the uncanny Backrooms. Atmospheric, captivating, oppressive and eerie locations await you - with no entities. Just you and pure liminality.
All That Time
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Poolcore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
All That Time is a psychological horror experience where you explore unstable dreamlike memories, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover fragmented lives inside a collapsing liminal system.
Exit_ComputerLab
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Poolcore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Stuck in an infinite loop inside a computer lab. To escape, you need to find the necessary anomalies to break the loop, making it possible to get out of this place. Good luck ;)
What Happened to Lily?
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Ranked #4 for Poolcore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Discolored
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Ranked #5 for Poolcore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.
Fatum Betula
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Ranked #6 for Poolcore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.
Box of Broken Nails
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Ranked #7 for Poolcore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
Visage
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Ranked #8 for Poolcore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Poolcore.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Poolcore.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Poolcore.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Poolcore.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Poolcore.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Poolcore
- What games are most similar to Poolcore?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Poolcore are Backrooms: The M.E.G., All That Time, Exit_ComputerLab.
- Who developed Poolcore?
- Poolcore was developed by GalacticThumb.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Poolcore.
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