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Ghost in the pool
A bizarre campus legend, take you into the traditional Japanese black-and-white comic horror story. Witness the familiar scenes and contemplate the terrifying moments.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“Brief yet well written horror story in junji ito style. To the point of almost being a knock off. Main flaw would be backtracking mid game, clearly a filler could have been executed better but can't complain given it's a tiny project. For this price it's all good”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Cool short horror visual novel.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · 2D · Anime · Beautiful · Hand-drawn · Text-Based · Comic Book · Stylized · Noir · Drama (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Italian, French, Traditional Chinese |
| Achievements | 19 |
| Official site | https://www.cascha-games.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Microsoft Window 10 Processor: Core2Duo 2.4Ghz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 256M DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: PCM，WAVE