When does Pool Panic get good?

Hooks you right away. 65% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (65%). Only 62% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.

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Pool Panic

Jul 19, 2018 Steam: Mostly Positive

Hooks you right away

Gets good instantly from the first hour

Started playing 62% of owners

Steam reviews 77% positive of 405

What the data shows

65% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (65%).
Only 62% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 410 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 291 reviews: 2.5h for positive, 0.9h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (61.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (32)

Pool Pro Cannon shot pot 100%
Satisfied the Chalkman Get the tutorial out the way 98%
Award Hoard 10 Get any ten gold end-of-level awards 30%
Amateur Photographer Find 1 cardboard cutout 18%
Chivalry Is Dead Pot a ball during a joust 12%
Don't Tell Anyone Find a secret level 11%
It Was An Accident Carpark gate pot 11%
Award Hoard 50 Get fifty gold end-of-level awards 8.6%
Wait I Thought We Were Playing Pool? Under par crazy golf 5.7%
Someone's Got To Clean That Up Knock over all the toilets 4.9%
B Virus Neutralised! Stop the infection 4.7%
Easy Rider Finish on your own bike 4.2%
Soar Like An Eagle Fly the hang glider 4.2%
Traffic Management Cause yet another crash 4.0%
Touch The Sky Get to the credits 3.9%
Award Hoard 150 Get one hundred and fifty gold end-of-level awards 3.7%
High Noon Complete with gun only 3.6%
Ski Sunday Gold in skiing 3.6%
The Most Ghosts Ghosts all out without sending one away 3.4%
You DESECRATE the House Of Balls! Break all the windows 3.2%
Pitch Black Beat the level without wearing a candle hat 3.2%
Professional Photographer Collect all carnival cut outs 3.2%
Four Minute Mile Win the race 3.2%
End of the road Completed all the levels 3.1%
We All Scream Got served 3.1%
I've Got Layers Russian doll inside all 3 layers 2.6%
Pest Control Kill all the seagulls without falling off 2.6%
Riding the Rails Unlock all the rails 2.4%
Don't Panic! Get to level 10 of Panic Mode 2.3%
Award Hoard 360 Get three hundred and sixty gold end-of-level awards 2.1%
Touch The Sky Below Get to the hard credits 2.1%
A Proclivity For Hat Thievery Wear all the hats 2.1%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.