Game Description

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.

A HANDCRAFTED HORROR EXPERIENCE
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.

MORE THAN DETECTIVE WORK
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.

FULLY VOICED
Every character is fully voiced, bringing Carrion City’s killers, victims, and burned-out cops to life.

GRINDHOUSE ATMOSPHERE
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.

A CAST TO DIE FOR
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.

Game Description

A puppy named Teddy, found dead under mysterious circumstances. Master Reed, vanished in a bustling temple fair crowd. Years of grudges festering at the Shipwreck Wharf. Scattered newspapers and handwritten notes in an unknown prison… Traverse the eclectic districts of Dark Tide City and investigate a string of bizarre cases.

Recover the city’s lost memories. Piece together the truth behind the city’s fracture ten years ago. Kill. Judge. Or perhaps… kiss(?) the mastermind.

It pairs 3D HD environments with 2D pixel characters, creating a striking modern-vs-retro visual style, and offers a wide range of freely explorable locations across distinct districts, including the rusting steel jungle of a long-shuttered factory, the muddy Shipwreck Wharf built on stilts, the floating slum of the Pig Cage Walled City where Chinese tradition and neon lights bleed into one another, and the bustling, crowded streets of the Old Town District.

Freely choose how to improve your abilities: Strength, Spirit, Charm. Pick your own approach to each case: Play mind games? Grease some palms? Or just beat a confession out of the suspect?

Deduction System: Gather, analyze, and connect the clues. Craft your own unique investigation trail!

Meet the people of Dark Tide City and uncover the stories behind their masks… whether it’s the sanctimonious Captain Theo, the fiery young Axel Flint (son of Griff Flint), the defiant Rafe Carter, the cheerful shutterbug Kiki, the elegant Mrs. Reed, the rumored hex-casting Priestess, the warm-hearted fishmonger Auntie Bass, or the foul-mouthed little rascal Chiffon.

The Shadow: A strange creature clinging to your back. It reads memories and reconstructs the traces of the dead.

“Don’t worry, Lucas. We’re just using each other. You use me to find the killer, and me? I love nothing more than feasting on the bizarre tales. Hahaha—!”

Game Description

ZHUISHU is a horror narrative puzzle game set in Southeast Asia, weaving together elements of traditional Chinese folklore.

A buried death. Two interwoven fates.

Story Synopsis

Yang Fan, a righteous police officer, receives a cryptic radio distress call during his night shift: “…the mountains…save the children…” The signal originates from an abandoned apartment building – official records show it was the site of a young girl’s suicide years ago.

Jiang Yufei, an ordinary teacher, gets drawn into the mystery after her student’s inexplicable death. Each clue she uncovers pulls her deeper into a dangerous truth no one dares confront.

When their fates intersect across time, they must confront a cruel truth—death is not the end, but the beginning of a greater conspiracy.

Gameplay

Light puzzle-solving seamlessly woven into the narrative flow creates an immersive experience that propels the story forward naturally.

Explore meticulously crafted environments to gather clues and items, unraveling hidden truths through intuitive puzzle-solving that progresses organically with the plot.

Key Features

• Dual Narrative: Alternate between detective Yang Fan and teacher Jiang Yufei to uncover a deliberately erased past
• Psychological Horror: Oppressive environments, eerie whispers and fragmented clues slowly reveal a suffocating truth
• True-Crime Inspired: Drawing from real cases, the game blends Eastern cultural elements with profound themes of fate, choice and human nature beneath its terrifying surface

ZhuiShu, meaning “Chasing Dawn” in Chinese, symbolizes the relentless pursuit of light and hope amidst overwhelming darkness. It embodies the journey of uncovering hidden truths, facing inner fears, and striving for clarity in a world shrouded in mystery.

Game Description

On Sunday the 7th of March, 1936, a group of locals made their way up the long, muddy track to Galley House. As far as any of them knew, the house had stood empty for decades.

Inside, they discovered the bloody aftermath of something horrific.

The authorities were summoned, and the crime scene was eventually cleared away. But nobody ever figured out what happened that dreadful night. It seemed likely that no one ever would.

Now, many years later, you have access to a peculiar machine — one that lets you listen in on echoes of the past. Can you piece together the events behind The Incident at Galley House?

The Chilling Detective Game, Reimagined on Steam

The Incident at Galley House is based on the acclaimed text-based browser game Type Help, remastered for Steam by the creators of The Roottrees Are Dead. It’s the same haunting game of deduction, now with many enhancements:

• An all-new, fully illustrated visual novel presentation
• Full professional voice acting
• A mysterious 3D interface for navigating memories
• An eerie original soundtrack
• New content and puzzles to explore

Game Description

The truth is in the details.

In Forensics: Crime Scene Detective, you are the scientific authority that provides investigators with the facts. Your work begins when the sirens fade and silence settles over the crime scene.

With a cool head and a trained eye, you enter apartments, bars, and basements where something unimaginable has happened — or is said to have happened. Equipped with professional tools, you search for what others miss: a subtle fingerprint on a wine glass, a deleted message on a smartphone, a tiny blood spatter that casts doubt on a statement.

From Crime Scene to Laboratory:

Securing evidence is only the beginning. In the lab, the evidence tells its story. You compare DNA profiles, reconstruct bullet trajectories, decrypt digital devices, and piece together fragments into a clear overall picture. Your analyses incriminate perpetrators — or exonerate the innocent. Not every bloody crime scene is a murder. And not everything that seems obvious is the truth.

“Based on the experience and insights of experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate (LKA RLP).”

With professional guidance from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate, the game portrays forensic work as authentically as possible. Experience cases drawn from real life: sober, logical, and relentless in their evaluation of evidence. Find the traces. Analyze the facts. Reveal the truth.

• Realistic Forensics: Use authentic tools such as DNA swabs, fingerprint powder, ballistic trajectory rods, and digital forensic tools.
• Authentic Cases, Real Methods: Missions are inspired by real scenarios and based on the experience and insights of real experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate (LKA RLP).
• Crime Scene Work & Laboratory Analysis: The gameplay loop challenges you twice — first through meticulous crime scene investigation, then through logical data analysis in the lab.
• Incriminate or Exonerate: Your work determines the fate of suspects. Discover whether it was self-defense, murder, an accident, or a staged crime scene.
• Your Instinct Matters: You decide which traces are relevant. Overlooked evidence can leave a case unsolved.

Game Description

February 11, 1927. Brooklyn.
A boy named Billy Gaffney disappears from his apartment building. The case is real. The killer is real. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence.

Omen Exitio: Hunger is a Lovecraftian investigative gamebook set in the darkest corners of 1927 New York. You are a journalist. The city needs you to find the truth. The truth needs you to go somewhere you cannot come back from.

Your Choices Shape the Case
Omen Exitio: Hunger is a gamebook, and every decision you make leaves a mark. You cannot be everywhere, and what you choose to pursue shapes not just the investigation but the story itself. Paths you ignored three scenes ago will close quietly, without warning.

As the investigation deepens it will pull you beyond the streets of New York, into dreams, other worlds, and the Lovecraftian mythology that underpins everything.

Multiple endings await, shaped by every choice you made and every one you did not.

Every Word Is a Clue. Every Silence, Too.
Not every witness wants to be found. Not every suspect will tell you the truth.

Talk to suspects and persons of interest, extract what they know, and persuade them to collaborate when they would rather not. New dialogue mechanics let you push, empathize, or apply pressure depending on who is sitting across from you and what the case demands.

What people say matters. What they choose not to say matters more.

Inside History
The events of Omen Exitio: Hunger are rooted in documented historical fact: real people, real places, real newspaper archives, all reconstructed with meticulous accuracy before being draped in cosmic horror. Every crack in the historical record is where something ancient and hungry waits.

To close the case you will need your skills as a reporter and your eye for detail. Move through cramped alleys, decaying buildings and the neighborhoods the famous Roaring Twenties never touched, and use everything you find.

The Crime Scene Doesn’t Lie. But It Doesn’t Volunteer Anything Either.

The investigation takes you beyond conversation and deduction. Certain locations demand a closer look: every object, every document, every detail that does not belong. The most important clue in a room is rarely the most obvious one. Train your eye, because what you notice and what you miss will both shape the case.

These are not puzzles to solve. They are moments where the case becomes physical and you will need to decide what to do with what you find. Your instincts as a reporter are the only tool you have, but some of those decisions cannot be undone.

The City That Does Not Forgive
This is not the glamorous New York of the Roaring Twenties. This is the other side of 1927: cramped neighborhoods, cold streets, decaying buildings that never made it into the history books.

Navigate the city from an interactive map, choose where to direct your investigation, and accept that you will not be able to go everywhere. Every decision about where to look is also a decision about what you are willing to leave in the dark.

Game Features

• Branching narrative inspired by true events from 1927 New York
• A story that remembers every decision you make, from the first scene to the last
• Interactive city map: choose where to direct your investigation
• Investigative Hidden Objects: examine locations and search for clues
• Investigative dialogue system built around deception, empathy and pressure
• 5 unique endings
• Over 900 original illustrations, inspired by the work of Frank Miller and Corrado Roi
• Cinematic sound design crafted to immerse you in the atmosphere of 1927