
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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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.

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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $9.74−35% | 537reviews | 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 486 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
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Excellent game. It is the type of game that you can play through in a session, but the story keeps you interested. Keep guessing till the end, because you won't figure out the killer till its revealed.
Short, crude, grimy, and an absolute treat to play through! Though it does somewhat lack in the gameplay department, it more than makes up for it. Sincerely felt like I was playing through a tongue-in-cheek slasher flick in the best possible way. Only real gripes I have is that it is on the short side and it honestly feels like there should've been a game before this one with how the narrative goes. BUT, I overall had a great time with it!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 486 reviews with recorded playtime.
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TL:DR The Skin Stapler is a love letter to grind house movies, B horror and action movies filled with sleazy jokes, and one liners. Done all in good fun. Even with no choices and chance to affect the outcome of events. It is still fun Bloody and gritty horror game that shows it's love letter to PSX error games and b movie horror. 7/10 To Long Did Read - Full review. Suffer The Night was the first game i ever played by TAINTED PACT. And every game they had put out since then have been a love letter to a stlyle of game and horror movies over the years. This is the first one that returns back to something simular to what they had done before. A very spot on Walking Simulator with a cheesy gritty horror story that with some good jump scares, will make you laugh and scream. The story of the game is straight forward. You are ♥♥♥♥ SLATER and on the trial on the SKIN STAPLER. You will follow this night from his view as well as others for one night of chaos in Carrion City. Blood will be had and Skin will be stabled and tabulated by the nights end. Gameplay wise this is a Walking Simulator. You are here to play a story in the way TAINTED PACT wants you to. There is some roaming around the areas of the game, but for the most part it's all of your actions are limited to what they want you to do in any given moment. you will have some interesting minigames to do to change things up as you play. But don't expect a open world in this very linear game. Which in my book is not a bad thing at all. Graphics are very 90's 3d action / horror game like. Every thing has that low res pixelated look that alot of the first 3d FPS games had in the 90's. It plays it all very well in my book. Riding hard into the aesthetic of games from this time frame. Length wise of the game will depend on how well you spot things and keep moving forward. My run was about 3 hours long and i had a blast the entire time playing it. My main knocks i would have to give this game is like the grind house b movie cheese it's inspire by, it plays out alot how you expect things to do so. Though the entire time you will have fun through this bloody story that is, THE SKIN STAPLER 7/10 A worthy addition to the line up from TAINTED PACT games. Fans of their past games will enjoy what they find here. And i imaging, new ones will be inspired to check out their past games from this one.
i love this game.
Meglio un singolo gioco indie come questo che 10 tripla A, veramente bellino, il prezzo è anche giusto per un gioco da 3/4 ore circa
An awesome homage to 80s slasher bargain bin horror. Pretty sweet experience!!!!
An amazing experience of a game. Very linier, but a great time! Worth the price of admission. I sincerely hope there is a sequel made in the same format as this game! Great work Tainted Pact!
Had a great time! The humor's not for everyone, but was for me. Loved the voice acting, puns, the aesthetics & atmosphere. Slightly traumatized by the customers. Hopefully this isn't the last time we see Detective ♥♥♥♥, please give us a prequel with the Full Mooner Gooner.🙏
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