Skully
Skip · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 5h 19.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 56% of 282 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
On a mysterious remote island, a skull washes up on shore and is reawakened by an enigmatic deity. Dubbed Skully, the newly reanimated being has been summoned to intervene in a war between the deity’s three siblings, whose quarrel jeopardizes the island they call home.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon HD 7770 series or higher, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 50 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Moss VR ($9.99, scores 66) and Pumpkin Jack ($29.99, scores 53) both outscore it.
More about Skully
Finishing takes 5 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 3.9 times the campaign.
At 5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
88% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Skully feels like what happens when devs ask themselves "how do we turn chocolate mint ice-cream into a game?" There is almost not a single aspect of this game that is not designed to be as refreshing as physically possible. The physics, rolling speed, and level designs are as smooth as velvety butter, the lighting and visual value of the game feels like heaven's tropical resort, the characters, their chemistry...
1 more review, not recommended
I really wanted to like this game but I just don't. It's too pricey for what it is and I feel like controlling all of these "mud golems" or whatever they're called, kind of just takes away from the fun part of the game (rolling around as a little skull), not to mention they don't feel fun to play as either. I know this isn't really in-depth, but they're the main gripes I had with the game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Skully scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1249110/skullyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.