Games like The Skin Stapler
If The Skin Stapler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Graveheart, Night At the Gates of Hell and Evil is Back — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Skin Stapler: 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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Graveheart
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Top pick for The Skin Stapler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
A retro FPS where William Wallace is back from the dead, Scotland is invading England, and your cursed weapons keep switching themselves at the worst possible moment.
Night At the Gates of Hell
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Skin Stapler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
From the sick mind behind Bloodwash, Jordan King, comes his latest experiment in terror. Inspired by the Italian zombie flicks from Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei, Night of the Gates of Hell promises to be a blood dripping, neon soaked, flesh rotting experience.
Evil is Back
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Skin Stapler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
"Evil is Back" is a retelling of the movies "Evil Dead 1 and 2"... With everything a low budget short film should have. For fans of 80's trash horror movies.
Zortch
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Ranked #4 for The Skin Stapler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Meet Zortch Maxinum: short order cook, amateur engineer and professional slacker; Bored and tired of her day job she decides to go on a holiday but alas she picks a cheap option: turns out it's a scheme by aliens who capture humans to eat their brains! also this game is a sci-fi horror comedy fps
POSTAL 2
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Ranked #5 for The Skin Stapler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
HROT
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Skin Stapler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.
Squirrel Stapler
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Ranked #7 for The Skin Stapler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god.
Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon
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Ranked #8 for The Skin Stapler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
Far Cry® 3: Blood Dragon is THE Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter.Welcome to an 80’s vision of the future. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando. Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Skin Stapler at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Skin Stapler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Skin Stapler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under The Skin Stapler on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under The Skin Stapler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under The Skin Stapler on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under The Skin Stapler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Skin Stapler.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Skin Stapler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
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Priced ~67% under The Skin Stapler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Skin Stapler.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Skin Stapler.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Skin Stapler.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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More from Tainted Pact
Other recommendable Steam games by Tainted Pact, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Massacre At The Mirage
WHY THIS
Another title from Tainted Pact, the studio behind The Skin Stapler. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
For less than the price of a movie ticket, experience your very own horror-fueled slasher flick in Massacre at the Mirage. Step into The Mirage cinema and face a chilling nightmare, where staff and patrons must survive a masked killer's rampage.
Terror At Oakheart
WHY THIS
Another title from Tainted Pact, the studio behind The Skin Stapler. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
The renowned slasher horror films of the 1980s and 1990s serve as a source of inspiration for Terror at Oakheart. The community of Oakheart has been terrorized by Teddy, a masked serial killer. As the body count rises, you discover there is more going on here than just a man in a mask.
Flesh Made Fear
WHY THIS
Another title from Tainted Pact, the studio behind The Skin Stapler. Shares Action and Indie with The Skin Stapler.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
Suffer The Night
WHY THIS
Another title from Tainted Pact, the studio behind The Skin Stapler. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
SUFFER THE NIGHT is a first-person survival horror experience. Alone in a secluded cabin during a violent storm, horror illustrator Stacey Linden discovers the true meaning of fear. Explore a constantly changing world and solve puzzles; but above all: survive!
Manny's Murderous Movie Theater - The Snackbar Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from Tainted Pact, the studio behind The Skin Stapler.
Step into The Mirage, a haunted cinema where you'll serve snacks, upgrade your shop, and meet chilling quotas—all while dodging the eerie gaze of Manny the Clown, the masked killer and cinema manager!
Frequently asked about The Skin Stapler
- Does The Skin Stapler run on Steam Deck?
- The Skin Stapler is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Skin Stapler cost?
- The Skin Stapler is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Skin Stapler?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Skin Stapler are Graveheart, Night At the Gates of Hell, Evil is Back.
- Who developed The Skin Stapler?
- The Skin Stapler was developed by Tainted Pact and published by Assemble Entertainment.
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