Games like POOLIMINAL
If POOLIMINAL is your kind of game, the closest matches are What Happened to Lily?, No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut and The Norwood Suite — 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 POOLIMINAL: POOLIMINAL is an exploration-horror experience set in endless pool rooms. The smell of damp tile, muffled water sounds, and corridors that lead nowhere... until the water finds you. A thalassophobia-driven horror journey through liminal aesthetics.
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Steam players who put hours into POOLIMINAL 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.
What Happened to Lily?
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Top pick for POOLIMINAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLIMINAL.
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.
No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for POOLIMINAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLIMINAL.
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
The Norwood Suite
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for POOLIMINAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLIMINAL.
Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.
NIGHTSLINK
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Ranked #4 for POOLIMINAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLIMINAL.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
Don't Play This
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Ranked #5 for POOLIMINAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLIMINAL.
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
Limoria
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Ranked #6 for POOLIMINAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLIMINAL.
Welcome to a world where you are lost between consciousness and dreams. As you wander the dark corridors of an old hotel, face the games your mind plays on you. Your memories linger like a shadow following you. But there's nowhere to escape... Are you ready to confront your darkest fears?
Millennium Dream
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Ranked #7 for POOLIMINAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with POOLIMINAL.
Wander through dreamscapes woven from memories of the millennium. Use your camera to freeze tender fragments of days gone by, collecting lost shards of childhood. In an atmosphere where Chinese Dreamcore and Liminal Space intertwine, savor a warmth that feels both familiar and strange.
Liminal Universe
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Ranked #8 for POOLIMINAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLIMINAL.
An exploration game that delves into the depths of loneliness. Wander through empty rooms, search for signs of an abandoned world, and listen to the sounds around you. No dangerous chases, just silence and an empty world to explore.
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 and Casual with POOLIMINAL.
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 POOLIMINAL.
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 POOLIMINAL.
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 with POOLIMINAL.
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 POOLIMINAL.
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 Casual with POOLIMINAL.
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 POOLIMINAL.
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 POOLIMINAL
- What games are most similar to POOLIMINAL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside POOLIMINAL are What Happened to Lily?, No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut, The Norwood Suite.
- Who developed POOLIMINAL?
- POOLIMINAL was developed by HorrifiedOriginal.
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 POOLIMINAL.
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