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Pure Pool

Pure Pool has a good foundation, however, the rest is filled with holes.
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65%Game Brain Score
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stability, optimization
54% User Score Based on 386 reviews
Critic Score 75%Based on 17 reviews

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Pure Pool is a single player and multiplayer casual sport game with a kids theme. It was developed by VooFoo Studios and was released on July 31, 2014. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and neutral reviews from players.

Let the makers of Hustle Kings™ transport you to the slick and exciting world of Pure Pool. Experience a living, breathing, bustling Pool Hall from the convenience of your living room – all wrapped up in VooFoo Studios signature jaw-dropping visuals! Whether you prefer to spend your time playing solo or weighing up against the competition, connect and prepare to be blown away by the next best thin…

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Audience ScoreBased on 386 reviews
graphics65 positive mentions
stability13 negative mentions
  • Stunning graphics with realistic lighting, textures, and visual effects create an immersive pool hall atmosphere.
  • Accurate and satisfying physics that closely simulate real-world billiards behavior, rewarding skillful shot planning and cue control.
  • Variety of game modes including 8-ball, 9-ball, blackball, snooker DLC, and challenge modes offer engaging gameplay for both casual and serious players.
  • Multiplayer experience is heavily impacted by dead servers, connection issues, unreliable matchmaking, and lack of true crossplay, making online play frustrating or impossible.
  • Controls, especially keyboard and mouse inputs, are unresponsive or sluggish with significant input lag; game is best played with a controller but still has some control quirks.
  • User interface and menus are laggy, unintuitive, and buggy; camera angles are limited and not always conducive to precise aiming, diminishing gameplay enjoyment.
  • graphics
    92 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game features stunning, photorealistic graphics with beautifully detailed tables and vibrant, immersive environments, often praised as the best visuals seen in a pool game. However, performance issues like lag and poor optimization on some systems detract from the experience, and a few users report graphical glitches or hardware detection problems. Overall, while the visuals are widely acclaimed for creating a relaxing and authentic atmosphere, occasional technical shortcomings impact smooth gameplay.

    • “Stunning visuals: the game features beautiful graphics, with detailed pool tables and vibrant environments.”
    • “The graphics are fantastic and the physics are on point, but what really does it for me is the atmosphere.”
    • “The visuals are stunning, perhaps the best I've seen for a pool game.”
    • “Very laggy on my i7 with 16GB RAM on the lowest graphics settings.”
    • “Despite having a dedicated graphics card, the game only recognizes my integrated graphics. This is annoying because when I forced the game to use my dedicated card, it wouldn't open.”
    • “Update: I have to set graphics to low for smooth gameplay, which doesn't make sense since I have an RTX 2070 that should handle high graphics.”
  • gameplay
    54 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay of Pure Pool is praised for its realistic physics, precise controls, and immersive first-person perspective, offering a satisfying and engaging billiards simulation. While it has a learning curve and some minor issues with menus, camera limits, and occasional mechanics quirks, overall it provides a solid and enjoyable experience for both casual and simulation fans.

    • “Pure Pool excels in its gameplay mechanics, offering a realistic simulation of billiards.”
    • “The physics engine is impressive, accurately replicating the behavior of balls on the table, which adds depth to the gameplay.”
    • “The controls and overall gameplay are really solid and it is easily the best pool video game I have played.”
    • “Learning curve: new players might face a bit of a learning curve when mastering the mechanics and strategies of the game.”
    • “Ui and menus are very delayed, laggy, inputs are delayed, gameplay is wonky, physics don't even seem right.”
    • “Now actually going into gameplay, compared to Pool Nation, it's different in the way you control it where they made the mouse visible now and you control most of the game by clicking and holding and dragging; I would have preferred PN's controls but in Pure Pool it feels more heavy and precise.”
  • music
    46 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's music offers a relaxing, jazzy soundtrack that many find immersive and fitting for the pool hall atmosphere, though its limited variety and repetitive looping receive some criticism. While the music enhances the mood for most players, a few mention the absence of options to adjust or fully disable it independently. Overall, the soundtrack is praised for complementing the visuals and ambiance, with some recommending players supplement or replace it with personal music choices for variety.

    • “The ambient sounds of a bustling pool hall, the clack of balls colliding, and the subtle background music create an immersive environment.”
    • “Having said that, this game has very good graphics, nice relaxing soundtrack, good playability and anyone that enjoys pool/snooker should get their kicks out of it.”
    • “There's quite a nice jazz soundtrack with a subtle but convincing crowd ambience and along with the great visuals and lack of UI creates a really engaging atmosphere.”
    • “You can reduce the jazz music in the background but cannot turn it off completely.”
    • “There is no way to turn off just the music.”
    • “There are only about five songs that constantly loop, which gets repetitive.”
  • stability
    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from frequent bugs, glitches, and freezing issues, particularly affecting online play, leaderboards, and menu navigation. Performance and stability vary across platforms, with some players experiencing severe lag, slow loading, and connection problems. Overall, the game is currently unstable and in need of significant patches to improve reliability and multiplayer functionality.

    • “Currently playing on Steam Deck; runs great.”
    • “Also, the game runs great for me.”
    • “And on top of that, the leaderboards are buggy: there is a significant period after getting a new high score during which the leaderboard shows a wrong mix of the new score and old ranking.”
    • “I could live with all of that but what really makes me hate this game is the freezing issue; every 5 minutes or so the game freezes and needs to restart, which is unacceptable given that my PC meets the recommended settings and I never experienced such problems with other Steam games.”
    • “The game is not optimized for PC; there are glitches all over the place and you can't even access the main menu.”
  • atmosphere
    15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game features a sleek, realistic pool hall atmosphere enhanced by excellent lighting, ambient sounds, and a smooth jazz soundtrack, creating a calm, inviting, and immersive environment. Its polished visuals and subtle crowd ambiance elevate the experience beyond a typical billiards simulator, giving it a mature and classy vibe that players find relaxing and engaging.

    • “Developed by Voofoo Studios and published by Ripstone, the game places you in a sleek, contemporary pool hall where everything—from the lighting to the subtle ambient noise—works together to recreate the quiet, focused atmosphere of real cue sports.”
    • “Its atmosphere is calm and inviting, its physics are consistently satisfying, and its presentation elevates what might otherwise be a simple billiards simulator into a polished experience with surprising longevity.”
    • “There's quite a nice jazz soundtrack with a subtle but convincing crowd ambience and along with the great visuals and lack of UI creates a really engaging atmosphere.”
  • optimization
    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game currently suffers from poor PC optimization, causing low FPS, frequent crashes, slow resume times after minimizing, and menu access issues. Many users report glitches and performance problems even on lower settings, indicating the need for significant patches and updates. Developers are expected to improve stability and optimization in future updates.

    • “The game is a good pool game but is poorly optimized for PC, causing many crashes until I found the optimal configuration.”
    • “There is a need for graphic optimization for lower-end PCs; even with a 2.1 MHz processor and low settings, the game runs slowly.”
    • “I have hope that the developers and publisher will release optimization updates and patches to improve performance and possibly the UI.”
    • “The game is not optimized for PC, there are glitches all over the place and you can't even access the main menu.”
    • “Not optimized, I got low FPS on NVIDIA graphics.”
    • “It is a good pool game but is poorly optimized for PC, with a lot of crashes until I found the optimal configuration.”
  • replayability
    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers a variety of modes and challenges that enhance replayability, appealing to both casual and dedicated cue sports fans with immersive and skill-based gameplay. Its social and competitive features further extend replay value, though some players desire deeper progression beyond cosmetic rewards. Overall, it provides a clean, engaging simulation that encourages repeated play.

    • “Beyond the traditional rule sets, the game includes trick-shot challenges, speed-based modes, and score-driven variants that encourage experimentation and replayability.”
    • “For fans of cue sports—casual and dedicated alike—it offers a clean, immersive, and highly replayable simulation that rewards skill and invites relaxation.”
    • “Career mode does offer a lot of tasks for people to dig into for replayability's sake, though it would've been nicer if there was a deeper layer of progression beyond just cosmetics.”
  • story
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game lacks a proper story or campaign mode, resulting in a repetitive experience with no sense of immersion or progression. Players may quickly lose interest due to the absence of narrative depth.

    • “This game also heavily lacks a proper campaign/career mode and some kind of story to go along with it, because as it is now, just playing game after game against an AI that just increases in difficulty but with no real feeling of immersion and progress, and your enemy just being represented by a flag and a nametag, most players won’t spend more than a few hours before starting to get bored.”
    • “No story.”
  • grinding
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is challenging and can be quite demanding, often requiring significant time and effort to earn stars and achievements.

    • “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
    • “The game can prove to be pretty difficult if you are grinding for stars and achievements.”
  • emotional
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users found the emotional experience frustrating and unengaging, citing sluggish controls and a lack of intuitive interaction that prevented them from effectively playing or connecting with the game.

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Pure Pool is a casual sport game with kids theme.

Pure Pool is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5 and others.

On average players spend around 3 hours playing Pure Pool.

Pure Pool was released on July 31, 2014.

Pure Pool was developed by VooFoo Studios.

Pure Pool has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked Pure Pool for its graphics but disliked it for its stability.

Pure Pool is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

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