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Tainted Pact · 2026 · Windows

Steam: 90 % positive of 540 reviews, as of Oct 28

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.

24 games that play like The Skin Stapler and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Skinfreak, Murder House and Flesh Made Fear.

Player tags

  • Horror
  • Walking Simulator
  • Action
  • Dark Comedy
  • Atmospheric
  • 1980s
  • Retro
  • FPS
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Plays and looks like The Skin Stapler

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like The Skin Stapler

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Harvester90 % positive of 1,454Shared: Horror · Retro · Comedy
  2. DYSTHANASIA88 % positive of 345Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · Investigation
  3. The Lacerator98 % positive of 164Shared: Horror · 1980s · Retro
  4. Stay Out of the House94 % positive of 1,717Shared: Horror · 1980s · Retro
  5. Deadly Night76 % positive of 255Shared: Horror · 1980s · First-Person
  6. Dead Seater91 % positive of 849Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · Pixel Graphics
  7. The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood94 % positive of 758Shared: Horror · 1980s · Retro
  8. Rewind Or Die92 % positive of 411Shared: Horror · Retro · First-Person
  9. The Evil Within84 % positive of 21,658Shared: Horror · Gore · Psychological Horror
  10. Condemned: Criminal Origins87 % positive of 4,395Shared: Horror · FPS · First-Person
  11. Cannibal Abduction95 % positive of 348Shared: Horror · 1980s · Retro
  12. The Darkside Detective94 % positive of 3,801Shared: 1980s · Retro · Pixel Graphics

By look

Looks like The Skin Stapler

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. killer792 % positive of 3,483
  2. ANEURISM IV75 % positive of 5,762
  3. Machine Party86 % positive of 4,892
  4. Arctic Eggs95 % positive of 5,464
  5. PIGFACE95 % positive of 2,668
  6. The New Flesh96 % positive of 3,399
  7. White Noise 280 % positive of 2,227
  8. FIRE AND ASHES92 % positive of 167
  9. Unspoken88 % positive of 789
  10. Dead Frontier 268 % positive of 28,528
  11. Fear the Spotlight96 % positive of 1,230
  12. The Lacerator98 % positive of 164

At a glance

What games like The Skin Stapler have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Skin Stapler: Horror (23 of 24), Retro (13) and 1980s (12).
  • They came out between 2006 and 2026, none of them after The Skin Stapler (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Squirrel Stapler (96 % positive of 2,082).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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