Path-traced liminal horror

HOLDSTILL

they only move when you look away

Steam · Early Access 2026

The trailer

Don’t look away.

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The rule

An empty pool is never empty.

An endless, sunlit complex of drowned swimming pools. You are not alone in it — and the things that share these rooms are patient. Keep them in your sight and they hold perfectly still. Blink, turn, glance at the way out… and the distance is gone.

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They move when you look away

Hold your gaze and they freeze. Every glance behind you, every checked corner, is an opening they take.

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Drowned liminal poolrooms

Tiled halls and still, mirror-flat water, folding back on themselves long past any way out. Beautiful, wrong, and impossibly easy to get lost in.

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Path-traced in real time

Every reflection, caustic and shadow is traced from real light. The calm is exactly what makes it unbearable.

IT MOVED.