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The graphics are very nice but the controls are iffy but that doesn't make it a bad game.
The graphics in this game are pretty good, but gameplay is pretty lame. In most pool games I've played, they show a pool stick so you can get the feel of aiming and where the shot is going to go. Not so in this game, you just see the balls on the table but can't aim with a stick. That, and the fact that it's hard to rotate the view of the table makes this game not nearly as good as, say, even the DOS version of Virtual Pool. Plus there are no clues as to what buttons to press in order to aim & take a shot.
The problems with this game are its camera controls (the camera should move automatically), the slowliness of the shot bar, the lack of the most minimal ui for calculating shots (there should be an option to turn it on or off), and general complete lack of other QoL. I expected a relaxed "desktop game" and got a half backed pool game. Most linux games (with very few exceptions like OpenTTD) are trash; they are ugly to look at, have graphics that not even a chinese Steam trash game has and have the stupid penguin everywhere. Come on guys, its 2025, show some love for linux.
Best open-source Pool game I've seen. It's come a long way since it's initial development.
Yay for free, and it looks nice, but you can't see where the ball goes after you hit it without fumbling with camera controls. Annoying.
Played it when it first came out. It caused varied graphical instabilities then, itcauses graphical instabilities now.
