
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
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% | 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.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 486 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
interesting little indie horror/comedy game got a couple chuckles out of some of the jokes Im not sure the game is worth 12 bucks for the content but nonetheless still a fun enough game
Kickass music, voices, ands vibes all around
I had a good time playing this game. Just the right amount of creepy for me to keep me going! The good: tons of funny, novel parts of the game kept me interested. Decent story, simple gameplay, and you shouldn't have to Google how to do anything. I also didn't run into any bugs. The cons: the game is short, just 2.8 hours for me to finish. Voice acting is meh. The Skin Stapler VA did their thing, but otherwise just regular voices- it gives it charm, but it's not polished by any means. Also, some of the novelty of this game seems recycled. It could use some variation in how customers eat stuff, or consume whatever, at each shop. I also preferred the regular looking customers from the demo vs the super strange ones becoming default in the final release. Overall, the game was worth the playthrough and I'm happy to support a small dev creating fun horror games I can play solo!
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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 486 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
can't say i enjoyed the streamer bait slop but it was pretty fun otherwise
Solid Game! I have bad adhd and hop between games. I dont usually play a game through even if it is short! 10/10 weird as hell and i loved it. If this developer has other games then im buying them
Great story, engaging gameplay especialy unique POV switching. Music/voice acting is fitting, Enviroments are well done a capture the 'Sinful City' feeling. The Ps1 graphics are spot on without to look forced and just a pixel filter. Generally Amazing
Sleazy and funny exercise in grindhouse excess. It's a bit of an acquired taste that I wouldn't recommend to everyone since the jokes could a bit one note but in the end I liked it a lot. The only, very small criticism I have, it would've helped more if the run time would've shortened a bit more. My least favorite part were the detective segments, they felt like they were just there to pad the runtime.
very good game was a very silly story and simple to play for me it's GOTY 10/10 would recommend
"S is for Scaroline!" The Underworld VHS level was an amazing experience. It was easily my favorite part of the game. Aside from the ending, well made, well played.
fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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