- We are in the Steam Couch CO-OP fest - 10 February 2025
Yes! Just in time for our Cue More Chaos update adding local co-op to the Story mode of pool panic. We are in the Steam Couch CO-OP fest at a massive 80% off! Me and Angus are going to try and stream some gameplay over the week. So this is an event for that. Come checkout our new CO-OP fun Simplify things with the new Magnetic hole assist Read more about what's in the update here!
- Announcing the Pool Panic “Cue More Chaos” update & Couch Co-Op Fest Discount - 10 February 2025
To celebrate Pool Panic being back in our hands and self published. We bring you a fresh new free update coming Feb 10th to Switch and Steam and a mind-blowing 80% off sale as part of the Steam Couch Co-Op festival. So what's in the “Cue More Chaos” update? Cue the Chaos! Players want more chaos! Yes! We cracked open the hood and tipped in 3 more cue balls to Pool Panic’s story mode! You can now access local co-op mode from the pause menu on the world map. Adding from 2 ( sublime ) to 4 ( absolute chaos ) players to the mix. Smash a JCB with friends. Halt a wedding with friends. Ski with friends (as a weird combined omniball). And of course, if you have opened up Panic Mode. Panic with friends to your heart's content. With all the co-op love, don't worry. Vs mode hasn’t been forgotten. Get your vengeance in 2 shiny new VS rounds joining the original line up. Motor cycling mayhem and las…
- Steam Cloud enabled - 25 September 2024
Steam Cloud is now enabled. Saves should now sync across devices on game startup and close. Happy cloud saving!
- A quick Patch 3.5 - 26 August 2024
Hey! We're so glad to be back! We’ve just dusted off some cobwebs and released a quick interim patch. Let's call it Patch 3.5. Another update is coming soon and we think it will be fun 👁️👁️. Splash screen updates. The main purpose is to swap out Publisher logos, now Rekim is self publishing the game. Hurray! We have changed the old publisher logo for a tribute to our good friend Gareth Jones ( Grandmaster Gareth) 1980 – 2022. Gareth provided a vast wealth of tracks for Pool Panic’s soundtrack. There are an unbelievable 96 tracks on Spotify. An incredible guy and a joy to sit and chat with. He had an infectious enthusiasm for the deepest corners of strange musical pickings. A music making machine, working on community projects, theatre, tv, video games, bands, his own minute melodies and of course his band Misty’s Big Adventure. Whenever his band Misty’s Big Adventure were touring near…
- Pool Panic UK Championship 8th November 2018 - 6 November 2018
Pool Panic is the world's least realistic Pool Simulator. To earn it the respect it deserves, we need to give it the world's worst eSports challenge! To this end we are excited to invite you to the inaugural Pool Panic UK Championship event at Server, Shepherds Bush on November 8th. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2Ff2e15417b7a322e8923acb207f46a3e93f98e4a5.png No prior experience necessary. Enjoy a night of nonsensical multiplayer madness from Pool Panic's Party Mode! Which random trials will you face? Survive the longest in a zombie ball outbreak, harvest the most crops, keep the king hat the longest and many more. Come to meet the devs, spectate or get involved! Beautiful balls and peculiar prizes to be won in the comfort of a fine drinking establishment! It is a free event, but ticketed, so head here and sign up to watch or participate. https…
- Pool Panic Patch 3 Is Live! - 17 October 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2Ff39c354ba6df039453b9e15b2046e2045512801a.jpg After a few weeks of testing and fantastic feedback from all of you, we're excited to push Patch 3 of Pool Panic live to the main game! This patch includes a number of improvements to the game's camera, a few behind the scene bug fixes, and adjustments to some of the more bombastic balls in the game. We hope you enjoy! Below are the notes. Camera Improvements Newly reworked camera from the ground up. Increased camera focus on where you are walking. Increased camera focus on what you are aiming at. Improved focus on key moments like pots remain in the camera shot. Community Requests Aim lines are also now visible behind obstructions, allowing you to better keep track of shots, especially on more chaotic levels. Reactive balls (you know, those skittish ones) now increas…
- Patch 3 Beta Test Up! - Improved camera and a bit more - 18 September 2018
Hello there you handsome devils. Patch 3 is nearly ready and we’ve got a beta for you to try before we push it to live. The patch features a newly reworked camera, with more focus on where you are walking and what you are aiming at. All this while focusing that key moments like pots remain in shot. Aim lines are also now visible behind obstructions, allowing you to better keep track of shots, especially on more chaotic levels. Please check it out, and let us know what you think! There's still time to incorporate your feedback before we move from the beta branch, to the full game. Cheers - Rekim & Adult Swim Games
- Pool Panic: one indie game s journey from cue to pocket - 6 September 2018
Developer: Rekim Publisher: Adult Swim Games Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam For: 11.39, $14.99, 12.49 Perhaps one of the most challenging things about Pool Panic is figuring out how to define it. Do we put this in the sports sim category of Steam? Mike Robinson pondered apprehensively. Angus Dick followed, exclaiming that No-one s really made a stupid game like this before. He s right; Pool Panic is a deeply unusual indie title, and it certainly earned its place in the EGX Rezzed Leftfield Collection two years ago, when the public first caught wind of The World s Least Realistic Pool Simulator. (more…)
- Patch 2 live - improved mouse controls and more - 14 August 2018
Pool Panic ‘Patch 2’ is now live in the main branch so you can get your hands on improved Mouse controls, extra menu options and other fixes! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2F3d9121f19dfbee4550d76d7415b1dfd42ee81a71.png To go with it the Discord is now live so pop in for a chat! http://discord.gg/fqYPVbW What's in Patch 2? We now have Trading cards! Most Requested - Improved mouse controls: Previously the mouse was emulating a gamepad stick and staying in position while lock-on moved. The mouse now tracks the aim line so movement is more intuitive (You can revert back to the stick mode in the control settings menu). Shot power has been adjusted and will now always be either a hard or soft shot, depending which button you press, regardless of mouse distance. Returning to centre to cancel aim is easier. Cancel aim using "C". We now have an overla…
- Patch 2 beta test available - improved mouse controls and more - 3 August 2018
We've released a beta version of ‘Patch 2’ so you can get your hands on improved Mouse controls, extra menu options and other fixes as quickly as possible! For details of how to find it and what's packed into it, read the forum post here. There is still time to give us feedback and get your changes into this update, so please give it a go this weekend and post your thoughts on the Patch 2 discussion thread! Thanks, Mike
- Pool Panic Patch 1 is up now! - 25 July 2018
Patch 1 is a quick hotfix for some immediate issues while we work on Patch 2, which will include clearer keyboard & mouse controls and expanded audiovisual options. Thanks everyone for your feedback, and please continue to shoot your thoughts and ideas our way! Changelog: Dialog box to select resolution & toggle Windowed mode now opened at start by default. This is an interim fix while we add these options to the in-game menus. A few achievements weren't popping, and these have been fixed. They will be unlocked retroactively when you next start the game. Finally you will receive the recognition you deserve for satisfying the chalk man! Reduced the time taken by the "Hold your aim" section of the tutorial. Added a new splash screen to promote gamepad use over keyboard and mouse.
- Bizarre billiards adventure Pool Panic gets snookered today - 19 July 2018
Rekim’s endearingly daft action-billiards adventure Pool Panic has rolled out into stores, and immediately into the corner pocket. Billed as “the world’s least realistic pool simulator”, this bizarre little game has been on my radar for a while. It stretches the rules of pool to breaking point, and from what I’ve seen on Adult Swim’s launch-day stream , it squeezes some interesting ideas out of the tried-and-tested formula of knocking a white ball around a table with a long stick. (more…)
- Now Available on Steam - Pool Panic - 19 July 2018
Pool Panic is Now Available on Steam! Pool Panic is an unconventional billiards game with something new around every corner. It's the world's least realistic pool simulator!
- Pool Panic Launch Day Festivities! - 19 July 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2Fded5ab908494c44cbe79454ee4fa465f4ae339f8.png If you're here, you know already - POOL PANIC LAUNCHES TODAY! (cue music and confetti) To celebrate we are running an all day Pool Panic stream! Covering a wild variety of events you can take a look at below. We'll be streaming on Twitch, Mixer, and Steam all day. All Day. We hope you join us to meet a bunch of the Adult Swim Games team, the developers behind Pool Panic, and have a grand old time while playing through the game together! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2Fedcc9abd12a553d07fd7afc6f4c81d2045061321.png Thank you for playing Pool Panic! We hope you enjoy playing the game as much as we've enjoyed making it. See you in the stream! Adult Swim Games on Twitch Adult Swim Games on Mixer
- 2/5 Pool Panic Cards Revealed! - 5 July 2018
The Pool Panic populace was recently complaining about being restricted to the game world, so we made cards! We feel these do an excellent job of bringing out their innate qualities. We hope you enjoy! We'll be revealing a few more cards next week, so stay tuned! Oh...this is probably about the time to talk about Comic-Con and launch day....hrmm... https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2F799ed4dd29b9e562532590c1283227a2cad378b9.gif https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2F512dcdf581cdb7ec4cebad41d46fc3dbdb19b07f.gif https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2Fc6c925f89a1a76c953dc4871283b8334c9bda256.jpg If you'd like to see the new cards as they're revealed don't forget to follow us on Twitter at @PoolPanic and @adultswimgames!
- Play With Our Balls on July 19! - 26 June 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32391129%2F6e5856ab58033753a7f83ac3079d63e5cbf39069.png We are happy to announce that Pool Panic will be releasing this Summer on July 19th! We will be releasing simultaneously on PC and the Nintendo Switch. We can't wait to see how much fun everyone has exploring the world we've built and playing with our beloved balls. I would write a bunch of things here about how excited you should be, but I'll just let the trailer speak for itself. Watch it on YouTube! Watch it now! Or, on our Steam page - it's there now too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCc64YsmhGI For more up to date information on Pool Panic and to observe all the ridiculous things we're doing on social media follow us on Twitter @PoolPanic and @adultswimgames.
- Trailer #2 Revealed To The Human World - 1 May 2018
Hello fellow pool ethusiasts! In case you missed the news, we recently released a new trailer highlighting many of the various locales in which we intend you to play pool when Pool Panic reaches your glorious PCs. It's a pretty great trailer. I've watched it at least 100 times. We hope you enjoy, and look forward to providing you with more updates, info, news, boring technical details about pool physics, examples of pool ball skeleton rigging, jokes only the British will understand, apologies about keeping release dates secret, and saying SoonTM a lot as we barrel down the road towards finishing Pool Panic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG1dWCLewhQ
- Oddball, corner pocket: Adult Swim announce Pool Panic - 21 March 2018
The latest from little indie outfit Rekim and to be published by anarchic cartoon channel-turned-games-publisher Adult Swim, Pool Panic is a game about living a life in the day of a jittering, gurning, animated cue-ball. Your mission: Explore a world of mystery, adventure and holes in the ground that you need to knock your fellow spherical kin into. Within, an announcement trailer that really wants to make sure you remember the title. (more…)
