Games like The Skin Stapler
If The Skin Stapler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Night At the Gates of Hell, Evil is Back and Zortch — 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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Night At the Gates of Hell
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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.
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
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Second-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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Third-strongest match 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
HROT
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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.
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.
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?
Squirrel Stapler
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Ranked #6 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.
Rogue Warrior
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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.
Rogue Warrior is a character-driven, first-person-shooter, featuring Richard 'Demo Dick' Marcinko's explosive personality in an action-packed single player campaign, and intense multiplayer combat. Playing as Richard 'Demo Dick' Marcinko, you go behind the iron curtain to disrupt a suspected North Korean ballistic missile program.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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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
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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
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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.
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
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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
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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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
- 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 Night At the Gates of Hell, Evil is Back, Zortch.
- Who developed The Skin Stapler?
- The Skin Stapler was developed by Tainted Pact and published by Assemble Entertainment.
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