Squirrel Stapler

Squirrel Stapler

Worth it · Shooter · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $7.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.84.

Length
1.1h
Value
$7.26/hr
Reviews
96% positive
It needs 52% off ($3.84) to be a BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
35% ($5.19)
Deepest seasonal cut
45% ($4.39)
Last discount ended
31 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$7.26
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$7.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
96%
2,374 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.. Windows only.

Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement69% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$7.26/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length1.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds10 of 379 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $4.39. That was January 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago. $3.84 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.

On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Swallow the Sea (free, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Witch Hunt ($9.99, scores 66).

Steam's global achievement data puts 69 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 379 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 127 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 1,437 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 70 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

92% start to 69% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

I really liked it. My favorite part was when I woke up and a ghost squirrel and a squirrel bear both attacked me at the same time as soon as I walked out of the house. The squirrel bears actually do startle me sometimes. That's probably because the sound of the forest was done really well. Now go play the game!
BONESAW LombardiRecommendedafter 1.2h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
10/10 Pretty good and short horror game, too short to mess anything up The ending gets ruined if you get spoiled though.
☾sHeLuV5m3h. ♡✩☽Recommendedafter 1.4h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
REVIEWING EVERY GAME I'VE PERFECTED: I saw this game on Tiktok, the infamous 'God Is Coming' scene, which compelled me to download the game. And I'm so glad I did. For such a simple game, the tension is great, the gameplay is fun and the story is amazing. And the whole ending sequence is just incredible, really sends chills through you
KatieRecommendedafter 2.7h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Squirrel Stapler scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2535830/squirrel-stapler
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

DeveloperDavid Szymanski
PublisherDavid Szymanski
GenreShooter
Released2023
Achievements8