"The Novato-based (CA, the US) indie games publisher Mindscape and Geneva-based (Switzerland) indie games developer Lakeview Games, are today very happy and excited to announce that their chaotic physics-based party game collection "Pool Party", is coming to PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch) in 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Summer is the perfect time for multiplayer party games, and Pool Party seems to bring just enough chaos and silliness to the billiards formula to keep it entertaining.
gameSlave writes: " This is one of those of those reference moments. A single point in time against which we will compare all others yet to come, and one which we add to the scope of our experience to better understand our past. This is the game that when myself and my colleagues here, for the foreseeable future, say that we've 'played worse games', or point out that a title 'isn't the most cynically produced around': this is that game that we're referring to. Pool Party is hands down the worst game I can currently recall playing or even seeing.
I'm prepared to admit a certain amount of this reaction might be due to the experience still being fresh in my mind, like a sticky shameful stain on my short term memory. After a little more reflection I might actually recall a worse title, but just now this is all I can think of."
Good stuff
* Nothing
Not so good stuff
* Absolutely everything
Tom Baines Writes:
" Everybody knows that looks aren't everything. We also know that we're not to judge a book by its cover. This are very good philosophies and excellent values to be teaching the younger folk in society, yet however hard we try not to, every now and again we do it automatically. I did it with Pool Party - and I'm not proud of myself for that.
Pool Party arrived in a small brown Jiffy bag, as is standard for a review game. Excitedly, I ripped the packet open and slipped the contents out onto my desk, finding it all to be a bit of a blur. First I switched the light on to see if that was the issue. That didn't help, so I popped off my glasses and gave them a bit of a wipe. Something still wasn't right and, short of suddenly developing cataracts, I decided that the issue wasn't with me but with the front cover of Pool Party. It's out of focus, in simple terms. There's photograph - a group shot of three friends playing a game of pool - and while it looks at first glance as though one section of the photo is out of focus to draw emphasis to another, upon closer inspection, I found no in-focus area at all."
