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Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this stellar sandbox. You're outnumbered, outgunned, and have no shoes. Welcome to Skin Deep!
Skin Deep is a immersive sim, fps and stealth game
developed by Blendo Games
and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Released on April 30th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Russian and Turkish.
It has received 929 reviews of which 886 were positive and 43 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 18.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified Skin Deep into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-7100 or AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 1GB or AMD Radeon HD 8570, 2GB or Intel UHD Graphics 620
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
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I highly recommend this game. I'm surprised it's not more popular, but it's hard for even great games to get any attention these days, so I'm leaving a review. This falls roughly into the category of "immersive sim"; it's an FPS in which you have various tools at your disposal to complete a mission in a variety of ways. Unlike a large, open-ended world, this game is mission-based. Each mission consists of a spaceship with different rooms, multiple enemies, and multiple cats to rescue. It's probably obvious from the screenshots and trailers, but the tone is exceedingly goofy and bright, which is pretty appealing in a game where you may fail or make mistakes frequently. I didn't care about the story, but I wasn't bothered by it at all, and it probably helped to break up missions. In general, I thought the level design was great and pushed you to try different tools and methods to complete the mission, taking you out of any comfort zone you have found. There's a sense of accomplishment that comes from finishing each level. Additionally, the focus on individual spaceships rather than something larger and inter-connected like an open-world game meant it avoided some issues I have had with otherwise great immersive sims like Prey (2017) where there's substantial backtracking and filler content. In my current life, I can only play 1-2 hours a night at maximum, which nicely matched how long it took me to do a mission (I'm pretty slow and deliberate when playing games involving stealth). I was impressed with the multiple systems and behaviors that interacted with each other at various times. I suspect that anyone who enjoyed Dishonored, Prey, or their spiritual predecessors would really appreciate this. It's different from those games, but it has big ideas matched with tight design while retaining some of the tremendous satisfaction you get by pulling something off. A final note: it's nice that this runs on old PCs (like mine) while still looking nice due to the art style. I had one small technical issue which is that occasionally the framerate would suddenly drop from 60 to 30 FPS; alt-tabbing out and into the game immediately fixed the issue.
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Skin Deep is a funny parody on stealth games but at the same time is a great stealth game by itself. You play as Nina Pasadena, a so called "Insurance Commando". Your job is to make sure that your clients, the crew of various space ships, are rescued in case of danger. The danger in this case is a group of space pirates called the "Numb Bunch" who are targeting specifically ships you are stationed on because their leader wants you dead. Each level in this game is a different space ship you have to save from the pirates. You start undetected in a cryo chamber ont he ship and you always start with no equipment because you cannot take anything with you in cryo sleep. This game is an "immersive sim" which means you have a clear goal, you have a sandbox and you can fulfill your goal how you want. You have various systems in the game that all react to your actions and allow you to be rather creative how you want to deal with every situation. Nina can carry up to five items and you can throw any item you want at anything you see. Most items you find have some functions that interact with the world. You can for example throw a deodorant which leaves a gas cloud. You can then throw a lighter to ignite the gas, creating an explosion that destroys objects in its radius and also damaging enemies. Alternatively you could throw pepper on an enemy which causes him to sneeze uncontrollably. This allows you to jump on him and then direct him into nearby objects to smash his head in. You can also throw objects to activate buttons, switches and other interactable objects in the environment. Enemies cannot be killed in this game, they have a special technology that "ejects" their head from their body and then floats to a nearby respawn point to create a new body. You can prevent this by collecting and carrying the head with you but that would fill up one of your inventory slots. These heads are also still able to make noise which can attract other enemies to your position. In order to remove them permanentely from the ship you have to throw them out into space one way or another. This can be done by flushing them down a toilet, using the trash chute or simply throwing them out the airlock. Getting noticed by enemies, even if only for a short amount, can trigger an alarm which alarms all pirates on the ship. During alarm, all pirates change their patrolling pattern. normally they stay inside their room but during an alarm they can and will walk into other rooms while looking for you. Additionally any security turret on the ship will activate and shoot at you and the pirates also summon combat drones that attack you by charging directly into you, dealing massive damage. You can stop these alarms by using one of the pirates walkietalkies and pretend to be one of them. As you progress through the game, you get introduced to more and more mechanics which make the game more complex. Pirates will start new security measurements like sealing vents, airlocks, windows and trash chutes in order to prevent you from hiding and escaping but you can unlock these by finding hidden codes and using them on terminals. Your goal on each ship is to rescue the crew of the ship. You can do this by using special keys which are usually in possession of some pirates. Released crew members stay with you but fortunately don't take up any inventory space liek the heads of pirates. Once you have all crew members collected you head out into space and call for an evacuation pod. This will evacuate the crew and also gives you some supplies in the form of additional firepower. After that a new wave of pirates spawn that will attack the ship and look for you. You finish the mission by either defeating all pirates or by using the pirate ship to escape which requires a special key that one of the pirates has. What makes this game so much fun is that it doesn't take itself seriously. It's clear that this is a parody on stealth games which means they can put all kinds of silly things in the game. You can throw banana peels or soap on the ground to make pirates slip, you can throw books at them until they have no HP left. Soap dispenser leave a cloud of gas behind that you can ignite and Nina herself has to sneeze if she stays too long in the dusty vents of the space ship. The crew on the space ships are for some reason all cats and these cats are all very blocky while the humans look totally normal. Each of the cats is also a typical stereotype like "this is the cook", "this one is a goth" and so on. The cats will write you mails after each mission and it is clear that each one only defines itself by their stereotype, which is some obvious cartoon humour. Another great aspect of the game is the voice acting. The voice actors did a great job here, especially the actress of Nina Pasadena. i love the raspy voice she gave the character, it fits a hardened fighter that is used to these kind of situations. There are a few downsides however. The first one is that this game uses a really old engine (id Tech 4 engine, also known as Doom 3 engine). This is a twenty year old engine, therefor you can expect some jankiness. One of the worse examples was fore me when I sabotaged the airlock so that everyone would be sucked out but it sucked me under the map instead where I was stuck. Usually it affects the enemies. Their heads can sometimes fall through walls and you have to wait until they move out of the wall. The second problem is difficutly. The game is overall not too hard but towards the last few missions you will be introduced to elite enemies. these guys are really annoying, they are immune to most attacks that worked before. They cannot be sucked out of the ship by sabotaging airlocks or windows and you cannot jump on them even when stunned. They also have mini rocket launchers instead of regular guns which are harder to dodge, do more damage and also destroy much of the environment around you. Oh, and they also have twice the HP compared to regular enemies. Because most attacks are inefficient against them, you have a really hard time to deal with them unless you have a gun on your own (which you only get AFTER rescuing the cats). There is even one mission where you ONLY have elite enemies. I wouldn't mind them if there were more ways to deal with them but their very limited range of weaknesses makes them very oppressive. Overall, this is a fun game, although short. The last few missions started to get a little bit annyoing due to the introduction of elite enemies but I liked playing through it.
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Unironically one of the best games I've played in years. It's kinda like if Prey 2017 and Home Alone had a baby. Plus cats.
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Initially within my first thirty minutes of play I was going to leave a negative review. If it's an FPS where are the guns? Why do enemies take so many thrown objects to kill? Why can't I do stealth takedowns? Then I found something, to some inconspicuous but to me a goofy scheme, the peel of a banana, I threw it at a guard's feet, the man tripped and got stunned, executed shortly after. What if I used a bar of soap instead? The same result. Deodorant and a lighter? IED. Hack grenade and an enemy turret? A cleared room, the game gives you the tools to succeed if you're willing to think outside the box, dance to its tune and it'll dance to yours. You can go quietly, pickpocket keycards and fusebox codes off of enemies, or you can be a silly little guy and kill everyone in the level with your silly schemes. The choice is yours. Every level is truly an open ended sandbox. Will you be stealthy, or let the shenaniganizer take over? The presentation is also a strong point in favor of this game, the 70s sci-fi feel mixed with the style of old spy movies make for a both nostalgic and innovative blend, along with a story that doesn't take itself too seriously. All around a good time for the price. I haven't finished the game yet but I'd recommend Skin Deep. Funnily enough when I did finally unlock guns they basically became my plan B because admittedly it is kinda more fun using the environment and the things in it than going john of duty. Update: I finished the game. Absolutely fantastic and basically required playing if you like stealth games.
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character is barefoot, no barefeet sound. 0/10 game on a serious note really great game, love how everything in the environment interacts with each other and how things can get so silly. explode laundry room with soap, he sleeps and falls I jump down and proceed to slip and fall 3 times trying to get to him. I panic, throw pepperbox too close we sneeze at each other
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Skin Deep is currently priced at 18.49€ on Steam.
Skin Deep is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 18.49€ on Steam.
Skin Deep received 886 positive votes out of a total of 929 achieving a rating of 8.96.
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Skin Deep was developed by Blendo Games and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Skin Deep is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Skin Deep is not playable on MacOS.
Skin Deep is not playable on Linux.
Skin Deep is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Skin Deep. Explore additional content available for Skin Deep on Steam.
Skin Deep is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Skin Deep does not support Steam Remote Play.
Skin Deep is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Annapurna Interactive
Release
30 Apr 2025
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