In her memoir, Swimming Studies ... indie game POOLS will lean into horror territory. While the walking simulator doesn’t have any monsters chasing you down, the liminal design of its ...

Initially released earlier in 2024, the game has you wandering around liminal spaces containing swimming pools, a haunting silence, and nothing else. While very minimal in terms of interactivity ...

Alongside shopping malls and hotel hallways, family swimming pools have often been a subject ... This is a welcome change to many liminal space-based horror games feeling the need to include ...

POOLS VR offers a unique, watery twist to the liminal space horror genre ... taking players to a familiar yet unsettling indoor swimming pool environment. Players will be tasked with exploring ...

swimming pools. There's no exact criteria for what comprises a liminal space—you know one when you see one. Also, maybe there's a spooky little monster that'll jump you and steal all your bones.

From white violence to the rise of exclusive swim clubs, people of color have long faced barriers to American swimming pools. In the 1920s, swimmers cool off at the Fairgrounds Pool in Saint Louis ...