There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings overview

Overview

There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings comes from Conor Walsh, Quinn K. and is published by Poison The Inkwell. It arrived on Steam on Sep 15, 2022, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 5 October 2026 - 14:17:12 UTC, with a tracked peak near 4. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 97% positive across 75 reviews.

Language and system requirements

There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings is available in 2 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings has sold up to 2,250 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $11,373. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings overview details

There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

THERE SWINGS A SKULL The town of Pareildas stands in the center of a vast desert. Its citizens live their lives quietly. Or, at least, they once did. In recent days the speaker-gallows sprang, weedlike, in the heart of the town - and since its inception the denizens of Pareildas have been sacrificed, one by one. The electric words that spew from the gallows claim this is to staunch the blistering hatred of the vengeful sun... but the heat has only grown more and more unbearable. OUR PROTAGONISTS Anatoli works for the town train station. He dreams of leaving Pareildas, so that he might peacefully live out the rest of his life with his husband. His dreams share much in common with the blackened husks of the town's denizens that line the streets. Pyotr is an independent artist. He hopes, deeply, that he might do something to stop the hellfire slowly consuming Pareildas. But the price of stopping the natural order is immensely steep - and, of course, there's no guarantee this is a natural occurrence at all... ABOUT THE GAME There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings is a narrative-horror game built in RPG Maker 2003 by Conor Walsh and Quinn K., with music by Leaf Let. Though the game initially released as a jam game it was so well-received - and sat so well with our team - that we decided to build it out into a full game. Conor Walsh is a professional narrative designer who has written on such titles as The Outer Worlds, A Place, Forbidden, The DreadX Collection 2, and many others. Quinn K. brought indie darling OFF to the English-speaking world and recently released the stylish and…

SteamPulse editorial summary

There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings is listed as a game with $6.98. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Casual and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 5 October 2026 - 14:17:12 UTC, a tracked peak of 4, and 97% positive reviews.

Content descriptors

Game includes: immolation, smoking, hanging, drowning, spiders, apocalyptic themes, and harsh language.

Support and legal notes

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