Pool and snooker, played properly
Six pool games and full-size snooker, on tables that behave like the real thing. Put side on the cue ball, jump a blocker, chalk before the hard one, and take it online when the house players stop being a match for you.
Never played? The game teaches you each one, by its real rules, a task at a time, and the full rules of all seven are always a click away.
The full game will be sold only on Steam, at $12.99; the store page is not open yet. A free demo is here to try now.
A quick taste of the table, free to download. The full game will be on Steam.
None of that is hidden inside the demo: it is a separate, smaller build.
Windows: unzip the folder and run Cue Republic Demo.exe. Windows may show a blue "Windows protected your PC" box, because the demo is not yet signed: choose More info, then Run anyway.
Linux: unpack it and run ./cue-republic-demo from the folder.
macOS: a preview. It is built on a Mac and started there as part of our testing (Apple silicon; the Intel build is made the same way but has not been started), and nobody has played it through on one yet. It is not notarised by Apple, so macOS will warn you: unpack it, then right-click the app and choose Open; if macOS still refuses, allow it under System Settings, Privacy & Security.
The demo needs a graphics card with up-to-date drivers. It picks its own graphics settings the first time it runs.
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Each with its own rules, fouls and table, and a computer player who knows them. Never played one of them? Every game has its rules explained in the game, and 8-ball, snooker, 9-ball, straight pool and one-pocket each have a spoken tutorial.
Not a pool table with red balls on it: a twelve-foot table with tight, rounded pockets, fifteen reds and six colours, and the whole game played to its rules.
Cue Republic does not just hand you a cue. It teaches you how each game is actually played, and it keeps to the real rules of every one of them.
Everything that happens on a real table happens here, because the balls are simulated rather than scripted.
The whole game plays either way: the menus, aiming, spin, the stroke and placing the cue ball. Pick up a controller and the tutorials change their instructions to match. Keys can be rebound, and mouse and stick sensitivity are yours to set.
Learn 8-ball, snooker, 9-ball, straight pool and one-pocket one task at a time. The commentator talks you through each one, with subtitles; miss a task and you play it again. Leave whenever you like and pick up where you left off.
The rules of all seven games, from the break to the fouls, written to match how the game plays them. Open it from the menu or in the middle of a match.
Six venues, from the back room to the World Championship, each with its own house players to get past, rivals who remember how the last one went, and cues to earn.
One game against the computer at the level you choose, or against a friend at the same PC.
A knockout for the players at your PC, with the computer filling the rest of the bracket.
Rated matches and knockout tournaments over the network, with spectating and chat.
A free table, drills, speed drills for the weight of a shot, trick shots with a score to beat, and a new challenge every day.
The Classic Room and eight more: a brick loft, a boathouse, stone vaults, an arena, a penthouse, a lodge, a Victorian drawing room with a fire in the grate and a house open to the grassland. Or have the game make one from a seed.
The best shots are shown again from other cameras as they happen, and a match ends with its highlights. Hit one hard enough and the cue ball leaves a trail of fire.
Outside the windows the day goes by under photographed skies. Some evenings it rains, and now and then a storm comes over.
Recorded balls, cushions and pockets, the sound of each room, a commentator who calls the match, and music you can turn down or off.
Cue Republic is in development, so these may change before release.
The game times your PC the first time it runs and picks its own level of detail, from Lowest to Ultra; you can change it under Settings. These figures are our estimate so far: they come from measuring the game on one PC, not from testing a range of them. A PC with no graphics card at all cannot run it.
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The game can send an error report when something goes wrong, and you can write one yourself from its menu. A report holds what went wrong, the game's version, your operating system, graphics card and graphics settings, what the game was doing at the time, and the last lines of its log. It also holds a random number made on your PC, so that several reports from one player are not counted as several players. It does not hold your name, your player names or your email address. Automatic reports can be switched off in the game under Settings, Game.
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