Fancy Skulls
Skip · Roguelike · 2014 · Early Access
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 74% of 355 positive
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
Fancy Skulls is a challenging first person shooter with procedural generation, permadeath and distinct art style. Intense and tactical combat, unique weapon mods and items that change the way you play.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Skillshot City (free, scores 57) and COMPOUND ($19.99, scores 86) both outscore it.
The drop-off
19% start to 11% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Fancy Skulls, developed and published by tequibo, is a first-person roguelike shooter that embraces minimalism both in its presentation and its design philosophy. It drops players into a sequence of procedurally generated arenas, stripping away narrative context and focusing almost entirely on combat, movement, and survival. From the outset, it feels like a distilled version of the genre-one that prioritizes...
1 more review, not recommended
Fancy Skulls has a genuinely interesting core loop - every enemy has a weak spot you need to learn, which forces you to actually aim instead of just spray-and-praying like most FPS roguelikes. The abstract art style is weird in a way that works, and stumbling onto a powerful item combo that lets you rocket-jump or slow time makes each run feel fresh. But the elephant in the room is that this game has been sitting in...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fancy Skulls scores 33/100 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/307090/fancy-skullsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.