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Squirrel Stapler cover art

Squirrel Stapler

David Szymanski · 2023-09-11

SteamPlayStation Store

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 11, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 16, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Feb 22, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

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

3
playing now
96%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.39
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

David Szymanski is an American video game developer. He is best known for having developed the games Dusk, Iron Lung, and Gloomwood.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 327 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~41/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 47k–106k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,348 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.39-45%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.39 at Steam (2026-01-23) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
34034020232026Week of 2023-09-01: 340 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 21 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-08-11 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$4.392023-09-122026-08-242023-09-12 — best price $6.792023-10-26 — best price $6.792023-11-21 — best price $6.792023-12-22 — best price $6.792024-01-18 — best price $6.792024-02-26 — best price $6.792024-04-15 — best price $5.992024-06-03 — best price $5.992024-06-27 — best price $5.992024-08-05 — best price $5.992024-09-16 — best price $5.992024-10-28 — best price $5.592024-11-27 — best price $5.592024-12-19 — best price $5.592025-01-23 — best price $5.592025-03-13 — best price $5.192025-05-05 — best price $5.192025-06-27 — best price $5.192025-08-04 — best price $5.192025-09-29 — best price $5.192025-10-20 — best price $4.792025-12-18 — best price $4.792026-01-23 — best price $4.392026-03-19 — best price $4.392026-04-27 — best price $4.392026-06-08 — best price $4.392026-06-25 — best price $4.392026-08-24 — best price $4.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.7k1922026-05-30 — 1,090 pageviews2026-06-02 — 1,388 pageviews2026-06-05 — 948 pageviews2026-06-08 — 861 pageviews2026-06-11 — 776 pageviews2026-06-14 — 680 pageviews2026-06-17 — 484 pageviews2026-06-20 — 481 pageviews2026-06-23 — 372 pageviews2026-06-26 — 388 pageviews2026-06-29 — 388 pageviews2026-07-02 — 388 pageviews2026-07-05 — 384 pageviews2026-07-08 — 464 pageviews2026-07-11 — 315 pageviews2026-07-14 — 309 pageviews2026-07-17 — 293 pageviews2026-07-20 — 391 pageviews2026-07-23 — 270 pageviews2026-07-26 — 313 pageviews2026-07-29 — 268 pageviews2026-08-01 — 352 pageviews2026-08-04 — 282 pageviews2026-08-07 — 220 pageviews2026-08-10 — 287 pageviews2026-08-13 — 234 pageviews2026-08-16 — 271 pageviews2026-08-19 — 195 pageviews2026-08-22 — 264 pageviews2026-08-25 — 222 pageviews2026-08-27 — 233 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
91.7%
earned "Whee!"
52.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,34139%8
PS5 (PlayStation)9250%8
Switch (Nintendo)50%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DFPSActionHorrorNatureHuntingShooterColorfulDark HumorAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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