Squirrel Stapler

Horror· Hunting· Dark Humor· Nature

Released Sep 2023

Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god.

96% positive · 2,326 reviews

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Steam Updated 12 Oct 2026 $7.99

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Evaluation

Squirrel Stapler is a short, self-contained horror game originally created for the Dread X Collection II and released as a standalone expanded version on September 11, 2023. The store description describes it as "a short (less than an hour long)" experience with a defined premise and a list of features — all of which read as shipped content rather than promises of future additions. There is no DLC, no season pass, and no roadmap for additional content. The developer's news feed since launch has been entirely focused on announcements and releases of other, separate games (The Pony Factory, Butcher's Creek, Secret Agent Wizard Boy), along with a note that Squirrel Stapler became available on PS5 on October 22, 2025. None of these posts indicate any new content planned for Squirrel Stapler itself. The PS5 port is a platform expansion of the same finished game, not new content. Squirrel Stapler launched as a complete, finite product and the developer has made no statements suggesting further content is planned for it.

Evidence

Store description presents a complete, finite game — 'less than an hour long' with a defined set of listed features. No mention of future updates, DLC, or ongoing content.

description · Sep 11, 2023 source content shipped

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Squirrel Stapler released on PS5 — a platform port of the existing game, with no new content announced for the game itself.

news post · Oct 22, 2025 source ambiguous

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Media

Details

Developer

David Szymanski

Publisher

David Szymanski

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Horror Hunting Dark Humor Nature Exploration Atmospheric Walking Simulator Action Dark Comedy FPS 3D Colorful First-Person Shooter Pixel Graphics

About this game

Originally created as part of The Dread X Collection II, Squirrel Stapler is a short (less than an hour long) horror hunting simulator that satirizes low budget edutainment games with pitch black humor and panic-inducing absurdist horror.

A lonely man living in a remote cabin wakes up one day and realizes his beloved--a dismembered corpse nailed to the cabin wall--has been made ugly and rotten by the flies that swarm her. He wishes she were beautiful, like the squirrels of the wood. And so he sets out to hunt the squirrels of the wood, so that he might staple them to her and make her beautiful again.

But that is easier said than done. A sinister presence lurks in the deep forest, and it has only one rule: "Thou shalt not staple squirrels!"

IN SQUIRREL STAPLER YOU CAN...

Hunt squirrels! Move quietly, hide in bushes, stay low, and pick the right time to pull the trigger!
Lure even bigger squirrels with a squirrel call!
Be wary of larger creatures and vengeful ghosts! You aren't the only alpha predator in the forest!
Freely explore a large nonlinear map littered with educational squirrel facts and more!
Meet god!