Ultrapool (v0.14.11)

A late-night billiards table becomes a score-chasing roguelike where every ball can rewrite the rules. Ultrapool pairs approachable cue-sports basics with the escalating buildcraft of card-driven score games, asking players to clear tables while assembling increasingly absurd combinations of special balls. Its neon barroom mood stays playful rather than serious, full of cocktails, eccentric bartenders, and rolling objects that range from useful oddities to complete chaos.

Each run revolves around sinking balls, earning enough points to meet the current round’s demands, and turning excess score into cash for the bar. Between tables, players buy new balls and improve their existing setup, then decide how their effects can interact when the next break scatters them across the felt. A returning phantom ball, egg-producing chicken, unstable explosive, and even a miniature Earth alter the usual logic of angles, collisions, and shot order. Surviving all ten rounds requires more than clean aim: successful runs depend on recognizing synergies, planning the rack, and occasionally gambling on a trick shot that sends several effects cascading at once.

What makes Ultrapool work is how it transforms pool into a compact engine-building puzzle without losing the immediate satisfaction of lining up a clean pocket. The cocktail bar deepens that system by allowing two balls to be mixed into a new creation, encouraging experimentation with combinations that can either save a run or derail it spectacularly. It carries the same “one more run” appeal as Balatro and Super Auto Pets, but replaces hands and units with physics, positioning, and improvised table management. Players who enjoy roguelikes with understandable fundamentals and a steadily expanding pool of strange possibilities should find plenty to chase here, while billiards veterans can get extra mileage from mastering angles under increasingly ridiculous conditions.