
The Skin Stapler is a retro-styled PSX grindhouse horror adventure set in the rotting, crime-soaked sprawl of Carrion City. Players follow jaded detective Dick Slater and his eager rookie partner Robbie Knox as they hunt a mysterious serial killer known only as The Skin Stapler.
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Prices
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
A serial killer stalks the streets, and you’re on their trail. Investigate the murders, descend into the city’s rotten underbelly, and uncover its buried secrets. Will you find the truth before The Skin Stapler finds you?Play as burned-out detective Dick Slater, hunting a serial killer known as the Skin Stapler. Take control of other characters as they are stalked through homes, workplaces, and dark city streets.
Victims are skinned, their flesh stapled to nearby walls. Distorted audio tapes taunt police and point to something darker beneath the city. You will scream. You might die. Maybe even from laugther.
Handmade horror, with no shortcuts and plenty of sharp objects. Built as an XXL horror feature night, The Skin Stapler delivers a night of atmosphere, story, and bloody good fun.
Investigate crime scenes as Detective Dick Slater, solve grisly puzzles, or survive a not-so-ordinary shift. Every character brings a different way to experience Carrion City’s nightmare.
Every character is fully voiced, bringing Carrion City’s killers, victims, and burned-out cops to life.
Inspired by 1980s VHS horror and exploitation films, the game features stylized violence, neon-lit decay, and an unapologetically grim aesthetic that blends horror and humor.
From the creator of Suffer the Night, Terror at Oakheart, Massacre at the Mirage, and Flesh Made Fear, Tainted Pact Games invites you into a grimy, neon-lit nightmare with The Skin Stapler. Experience handcrafted indie horror made with support from some of your favourite content creators.

Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $9.74−35% | 532reviews | 91% | — | $133.3K |
| $14.99 | 4ratings | 100% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
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Reviews
Themes across 483 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
PEAK
This honestly was an incredible play. I genuinely did not expect to laugh as much as I did, the dark comedy in this is really well done. Props to the developers for all of the live action scenes, it was a very goofy surprise and fit so so well with the entire game
Это просто офигенно) очень жаль нет перевода на русский язык. А так очень круто
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 483 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Wow. That game was amazing. I felt directly drawn into a 80s horror movie, Nice and funny voice acting. The art style fits perfect. I had a lot of fun with this one. Well done.
Easy 10/10! Loved every single minute of the game, and Hexy deserves a special shout out as his voice acting brought so much life to the game-He did an excellent job!! As did all the voice actors :) I've now bought more Tainted Pact games & I cannot wait to get back to streaming, and play them!!
always happy for the release of these type of games voice acting, mystery, murder, humor, its fun stuff gg = goon gore watching a playthrough
Humor is cheesy and juvenile, voice acting is eh, its not too scary, gameplay mechanics are balls. Despite this you can feel the love pulsing from this game. Atmosphere is phenomenal, the soundtrack is peak, and the story is good enough to where you want to play until the end. Def worth the price point.
A town full of freaks, an absolutely ruthless killer with an unbearable voice, a cop who's way too old for this ♥♥♥♥ and as jaded as Rorschach, a rookie sidekick, a bunch of incredibly stupid young adults who completely ignore the obvious danger, and a generous amount of....sexual references. After a very Resident Evil-esque game, Tainted Pact goes back to its roots with this first-person 90' slasher. Part Se7en-style investigation, part horror comedy, and occasionally a weird little job simulator like in Massacre at the Mirage, the game delivers a very entertaining experience with a fantastic atmosphere. The environments are varied but consistently grimy and run-down, the NPCs look like deformed zombies shambling around with ridiculous animations, and the crime scenes are surprisingly detailed. Everything is backed by an excellent synthwave soundtrack that fits the game perfectly. The whole thing is balanced by a wonderfully trashy sense of humor, with sex jokes, suggestive poses and references absolutely everywhere. It fits the ridiculous B-movie tone perfectly. You can really feel that the developers are horror fans: the VHS rental store alone, packed with hilariously pixelated parodies of real movie posters, is worth the visit. My only real complaints are pretty minor: no AZERTY keyboard support and subtitles that disappear far too quickly during dialogue. One important thing to know: there is no save system. Thankfully, every chapter is available directly from the main menu and chapters are fairly short. However, quitting halfway through one means starting it over from the beginning. Overall, another great entry from Tainted Pact. A short, stupid, sleazy and genuinely fun horror experience made by people who clearly love the genre. Already looking forward to the next one!
absolute cinema
HELL YEA RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
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