
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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The United States storefront in every case, so this compares stores and not countries.
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 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 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% | 534reviews | 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.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 484 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I really loved playing this game the characters music and story was really great along with the art I would definitely play again 10/10
The Skin Stapler — тот случай, когда захотелось похвалить игру еще до выхода полной версии. После ознакомления с демкой тут же добавил в вишлист. И наконец-то дождался релиза полной версии. Создателям удалось честно следовать заявленной жанровой "солянке" - в игре органично переплелись элементы слэшера, грайндхауса и нуарного детектива. Визуальная и звуковая составляющие на высоте. Стилизация и детализированное окружение очень хорошо работают на атмосферу. Проработка локаций и связанного с ними интерактива отлично способствуют погружению. Отдельно хочется отметить подачу сюжета от лица разных героев, что вкупе с нарочитой кинематографичностью постановки скриптовых сцен делает повествование очень «киношным». Некоторые моменты могут показаться спорными и даже абсурдными, но это добавляет градуса безумия и черного юмора. Чего только стоят типы и типэссы - любители хот-догов, пончиков и странных фильмов. Ну и главный злодей - получился что надо, для такого рода произведения. Девок конечно жалко. И Робби. Но на то это и слэшер, чтобы не церемониться с нашими чувствами. Разработчику спасибо - получилась отличная, не шаблонная интерактивная кино-игра, которая скрасит вечер.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 484 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
A great short horror experience with a good amount of laughs and some awesome cameos by popular streamers! Need to look some of them up but this was an excellent walking sim/minor puzzle game with all the right B movie action/slasher dna mixed in. I highly recommend playing this game so please buy it and support the dev!!!
it's a bomb game. worth selling my cs2 skins to buy it
loved it!!!
peak game!
most anticipated game of 2026 for me, and it paid off. absolute banger, 15/10
game des jahres!
Really good horror game that tries to capture 80s slasher horror themes. It also has some comedic parts from time to time, there are often sexual innuendos so if you don't like those jokes then you might not want this game. Even though its a horror game there aren't many jump scares maybe less than 6 which is nice. The voice acting is nice and they do a really good job but sometimes when a line is said it sounds a bit stiff but it doesn't ruin the overall pacing or story just throws me off a bit. The gameplay is mostly a walking sim where you switch between characters interact and pick up stuff. I kinda figured out the pattern of the game after the third loop. which is play as a victim do some stuff and talk with people and get caught by the killer then die. Then play as the dectective talk with people interact with crime scene get clues and figure out a puzzle. Then it repeats back to victim a few times which got predictable. Overall I did have fun with the game and the few flaws it has don't take away too much. I recommend this game if your into horror and dark comedy and sexual innuendos and walk sim type games.
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