Ultrapool brings the world of Balatro roguelikes to cue sports

When you just like the sound of blending collectively cue sports activities like pool with Balatro’s popularized mechanics of difficult rounds – Ultrapool is one for you. Seemingly not a part of Steam Subsequent Fest, it does have a candy demo out there that I took for a spin after discovering it within the GamingOnLinux inbox just lately.

The essential concept of Ultrapool is similar as regular pool – try to pot the balls. Right here potting balls provides you factors and cash to spend on the bar to purchase new balls, improve and synergize all of your balls right into a loopy set to provide the most insane quantity of factors you may. It places you thru spherical after spherical of more and more difficult odds, the place similar to Balatro (hello once more) you have to hit a sure rating to proceed.

With some very nice presentation, and a demo that labored superbly on Fedora KDE 44 with Proton 11, I’ve genuinely had an absolute blast attempting out totally different mixtures with it.

Enjoyable concept – and with a number of modes of play and several other problem ranges, the total sport needs to be an actual gem.

The complete sport is due out someday in Q3 2026.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.