Single-player games like The Skin Stapler
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Skin Stapler, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Night At the Gates of Hell
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Evil is Back
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Zortch
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
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HROT
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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POSTAL 2
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Squirrel Stapler
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Skin Stapler.
Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god.
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Rogue Warrior
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Massacre At The Mirage
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Terror At Oakheart
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Flesh Made Fear
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Suffer The Night
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Manny's Murderous Movie Theater - The Snackbar Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Skin Stapler — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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!