For a lot of people, indie game POOLS will lean into horror territory. While the walking simulator doesn’t have any monsters chasing you down, the liminal design of its environment is very ...

POOLS takes the often memed concept of a swimming pool as a Backrooms-esque liminal space and makes an actual horror game out of it. Ashley Schofield Published: May 3, 2024 ...

The Backrooms, a liminal space so internet-famous it spawned its own canon, ... swimming pools. There's no exact criteria for what comprises a liminal space—you know one when you see one.

The liminal space aesthetic has only been around for a few years, ... An indoor pool looks less appealing when you're alone at night. | Ramcornwall, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 ...

Google searches for the words "liminal," "liminality" and "liminal spaces" began climbing in March of 2020, when the pandemic first hit North America. The liminal space Reddit has roughly 400,000 ...

The ultimate liminal space, though, is the pool where they have their showdown with the entity. Silent Hill This wouldn’t be a list about liminal spaces in horror without mentioning the 2006 ...

Timothy Carson, the curator of the Liminality Project, attributes the appeal of a liminal-space image to our desire to examine the overlooked textures of everyday life.In doing so, he told me, we ...