Pocket Run Pool

Noodlecake

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

The return of arcade pool from the creator of Really Bad Chess and Flipflop Solitaire.

Pocket-Run Pool combines 8-ball pool with the thrill of a chasing the perfect highscore.

In Pocket-Run, your goal is to sink all the balls, but where and when you sink them is what matters most!

With each pocketed ball, you're awarded points based on the pocket you sunk. So sink carefully, but watch out, with each miss or scratch you lose a life — run out before you finish the table and it's game over.

Compete against yourself, the world, or the bank in a variety of thrilling game modes!

Can you make the perfect pocket-run?

Arcade pool is back!

------WHATS IN THE “BOX”?

- 🎱 Play Pocket-Run Pool's Standard, High Stakes, and Insta-Tournament modes for free!

- 🏆 Asynchronously Go for gold against players from around the world in Insta-Tournament mode

- 🔥 Manage your risk against all manner of game conditions (like the devious Cuewall) in High Stakes mode

- 👍 Unlock Break of The Week, alternate backgrounds, and remove Insta-Tournament buy-ins with a single In-App-Purchase

- 📊 Track stats for all four modes

- 💙 Win alternate pool cues and color schemes in High Stakes mode

------A WORD FROM THE DEVELOPER

I've always loved pool, and when I got my first smartphone years ago, the world of digital pool games opened up to me.

There are certainly a lot of options out there, but finding a simple and enjoyable single-player pool game was harder than I expected. I found one that I enjoyed, but after playing it extensively I found it too easy to beat the computer every time. Suddenly the problem with pool hit me — when you play against a computer in a physics simulation, you're literally playing against a god... By which I mean, either the computer is going easy on you (for a reason), or it's playing a perfect game and taking all your money.

It dawned on me that if I wanted a good single player pool game, I'd have to make a new kind of pool — a variant that doesn't need a computer opponent, that's built around the notion of scoring and improving, of taking risks, and of presenting unique and interesting challenges.

Pocket-Run Pool is the game I came up with, I hope you enjoy it!

-zach

Ratings and reviews

Love this game but I think there is a serious flaw. It is nearly impossible to win the time limit bets. The clock should only count the time it takes the player to line up the shot. Sometimes after shooting it takes 10-20 seconds for the balls to stop completely and reset for the next shot. Turning down all timer bets costs a lot over time and is just not fun. Please change so only the lineup of each shot counts towards the time. Even lower time limits would be fine like that.

Okay, from the get-go, it doesn't accept my finger so well. I have a couple examples, from the beginning. One is, when it tells me to flick, the pool stick only moved up and down, and didn't allow it to hit (oxcept for constantly tapping). The second thing is, when I'm trying to aim the stick to the ball, it goes so stiff. It's so hard for me to aim it right, I can't make it precisely. It makes the ball move in a direction that I don't want. Maybe it's my phone: Motorola Edge Plus 5G UW (2022).

I really wish I had more control over my shot power. Swiping to control it is incredibly vague, and there's games ruined by shots where you think it's going be soft, and it blasts your target (and vice versa). Not being able to reposition the cue after a scratch can lead to multiple misses in a row thanks to poor placement.

What's new

- bug fixes