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Progress update: New powerups, cue parts, dynamic camera system
Hail Voidhunters! Let’s dive in straight into the updates: New powerups We’ve been adding new powerups to make things more fun and eye-catching. Our favourites include new gun-related upgrades, like the one allowing you…
Patch notes4 changesGameplay - Pool of Madness
Progress update: new tables, new physics, new systems for improving clarity
Voidhunters, pause your rituals! We have a quick - but meaty - dispatch from the ship! New physics Check the videoclips below for a much better representation of the changes. We’re in the middle of a new physics upgrade…
Patch notes7 changesGameplay - Pool of Madness
Post-demo dev update, new visuals and a peek behind the scenes
Hail voidhunters! *grabs a lantern and points forward with his bony fingers* Let me guide you through a quick progress update! Post-demo summary GIF 1: New Unholy Surge visual effects. Thank you to everyone who tried ou…
Patch notes5 changesGameplayUI/audio - Pool of Madness
New DEMO, Lovecraftian Days Festival feature, charity and plans
Lovecraftian Days Festival Demo We're excited to announce that the Lovecraftian Days Festival is LIVE and Pool of Madness is one of the featured titles! To celebrate, we've prepared a DEMO that will be available till th…
Event8 changesGameplayUI/audio - Pool of Madness
Playtest is now LIVE!
Hail voidhunters! The Pool of Madness playtest is now LIVE! Features: new art procedural rituals Pop-a-Pill automat where you can buy powerups and more! How to join: simply click on Request Access on the game's page you…
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New models, playtests and upgraded fish carcasses
Hail voidhunters! Let me be your guide on this quick tour through the underworld of horror pool development. Just follow the sickly lantern light and the distant moans of the dead. I promise I won’t take much of your li…
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New art style, 40,000 wishlists, Turn-Based Thursday Fest feature
Hail, void hunters! Friday 13th sounds like the perfect day for a Pool of Madness update. So let's dive right into some new chaos we've brewed: New art style We're thrilled to announce that Pool of Madness is getting a…
Patch notes3 changesGameplay - Pool of Madness
Price change, origins of horror pool, spinning saws
A quick November update, voidhunters: Pricing "Cthpoolu" - the first-week prototype. Pool of Madness started as a spontaneous 2-person game jam - an attempt to "combine storytelling with pool". Within a couple of days w…
Patch notes2 changesBalanceGameplay - Pool of Madness
New demo, Pool of Madness featured by Yogscast, and... a gun!
Pool of Madness has been selected by the Yogscast Team to be featured during the Tiny Teams festival starting tomorrow! To celebrate, we’re launching an updated demo, featuring a… gun when the festival starts! In fact,…
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🎵 Mercyful Flames: The Witches OST out now 🎵 - the dungeon synth soundtrack will support an organisation dedicated to reducing animal suffering 🐣
The album, titled “Spells”, is the newest release from Alembik, the project by a member of Owls Woods Graves, Medico Peste, Over the Voids, Hauntologist, and live bassist of Mgła. The majority of proceeds from the pre-s…
Store1 change - Pool of Madness
🔥 Lovecraftian Days Sale supporting charity and Pool of Madness playtest 🔥
Time to celebrate Lovecraftian Days 2025! All Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft DLCs are now 20% off for the duration of the festival! New playtest of Pool of Madness for Lovecraftian Days 2025 One year ago, we unveiled our new…
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The Lovecraftian Days 2025 playtest is live!
One year ago, we unveiled the very first playtest of Pool of Madness during Lovecraftian Days - after just a month of development. With LD 2025 upon us, it felt like the perfect opportunity to showcase the latest playte…
Store4 changesGameplay - Pool of Madness
Steam Co-op Fest, new demo, future plans for our Lovecraftian roguelite pool🎱🐙
Occultists! We've just released a limited playtest of our roguelite combining pool and cosmic horror. It features single-player and coop modes, made especially for Steam Couch Co-op Fest! TRY IT OUT, GET THE DEMO HERE:…
Store5 changesGameplayUI/audio - Pool of Madness
Halloween Demo OUT NOW 🎃 - grab a broomstick and play some spooky pool! 🦇
Halloween Demo OUT NOW - grab a broomstick and play some spooky pool! After releasing Dagon: CE on consoles, we couldn't wait to jump back into Pool of Madness and play around with some new things, including new mechani…
Store2 changesGameplay - Pool of Madness
Pool of Madness - Turn-Based Thursday Fest Stream
Turn-Based Thursday Fest Early Demo Broadcast
Announcement - Pool of Madness
Dagon: Complete Edition - just launched on consoles together with a new timed exclusive DLC!
Fellow scholars of all things forbidden! "Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft" turned out to be very successful, with over 1,700,000 downloads on Steam and 95% positive reviews. When the war broke out in Ukraine, we decided to do…
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