Last updated on February 6th, 2026 at 08:50 pm
Skullduggery! – Action Game Review
Skullduggery! is a Action/Adventure/Entertainment game from ClutchPlay Games LLC, first launched in 9th October 2014.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 198+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Skullduggery! Stand Out
Headshots! Paperwork! Semi-Organic Autonomous Skulls collecting taxes from the Deadbeats of the Afterlife!
Official Selection, PAX 10 Indie Showcase, PAX Prime 2014
9/10 – Pocket Gamer (Pocket Gamer Gold Award)
5/5 – AppSpy
4.5/5 – Touch Arcade
4/5 – 148 Apps
4/5 – Gamezebo
8.5/10 – GameMob
You know the old saying, “you can’t take it with you?” Well, we’ve got news for you, my friends, they were WRONG! “Deadbeats” have been taking their riches with them to the afterlife for centuries and it’s the job of the INFERNAL Revenue Service — and its army of skulls — to collect! That’s where you come in.
In “Skullduggery!” you’ll play a Semi-Organic Autonomous Skull employed as a collection agent for the IRS. Using the elasticity of your own brain, flick yourself around the fortresses of the afterlife’s biggest deadbeats.
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BRAIN POWER: Pull back ANYWHERE on the screen to stretch out your brain! Let go to snap your skull forward like a brainy rubber band.
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BULLET TIME: Touch and hold in mid-air to slow down time, change directions, avoid deadly obstacles, and pull off crazy trick shots!
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GRAVITATIONAL TRUANCY: Repeatedly jump by aiming again while your skull is mid-flight.
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STEALTHINESS: Being small has advantages! Hide in trash cans, chests, and jars. Slip behind surly guards and take them out while their backs are turned!
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HEADSHOTS: Take out enemies with a single well-placed fling to the cranium.
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HEAD TO HEAD: Play ‘head to head’ against your friends to become the afterlife’s most successful agent.
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BUREAUCRACY: Fill out paperwork and reflect on the inherent emptiness of existence!
“Skullduggery!” features the endearingly grotesque art stylings of game artist extraordinaire Bill Mudron, inspired by the Max Fleischer animations of the 1930’s, and a quirky, doom-jazzy, bureau-noir soundtrack from industrial musician Michael Arthur Holloway.
MORE FEATURES:
- NO In App Purchase. Buy the game, play the game. That’s it!
- A finely-tuned and deeply-satisfying one-touch control scheme specifically tailored to mobile.
- Three distinctly unique and atmospheric worlds with more on the way.
- Dreadful puns.
- Single Player mode with 24 surreal and pleasantly spooky levels.
- Multiplayer “Head to Head” mode with a variety of brain-pounding arenas.
- Hidden rooms and secret chests containing treasure and other delights.
- Pleasing power-ups and epic boss battles!
- Dozens of collectables and secondary objectives for maximum replayability.
- Over 20 unique skulls to unlock, including guest celebrity skulls from some of our favorite games.
- Universal App – play on your new iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini.
- Full iCloud support – sync your progress across all your devices.
- Compete with Game Center Achievements and Leaderboards.
- Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork!
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Hi, We're ClutchPlay Games!
We’re a small indie game studio located in not-so-sunny yet idyllic Portland, Oregon. Our first game, Little Chomp was selected as one of six featured titles at the 2013 PAX East Indie Showcase and more recently, “Skullduggery!” was featured in the PAX 10 Indie Showcase at PAX Prime, 2014.
We'd love to hear your feedback, so please drop us a line or just say hi at [email protected], or follow us on Twitter at @ClutchPlayGames
We hope you enjoy “Skullduggery!”
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http://www.clutchplaygames.com/Support
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Skullduggery! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd February 2026
Recent improvements include:
General bug fixes
Support for wide screen devices
Updated iOS SDK
Download & Availability
Skullduggery! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Skullduggery! on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This was a huge part of our childhood.
This game is so fun Ive been with this game ever since it first came out and we gotta say still to this day its a fun game but our only gripe is the fact that there is only four worlds we think they could make 3 more since this game is so well made and so addictive to play and maybe you guys could make more bosses like one being themed around using the magnet ability to get rid of the bosses weapon of one using the fire ability to make the boss run away into obstacles hurting it but other than that this game is great 10 out of 10 would recommend.
We remember watching our brother play this all the time! The skulls the art everything looked awsome.
We would used to play this game since we were a kid.Its cool.
This is our favorite game on our phone and now that Ive completed everything in it we came to ask if you guys could make more worlds.
This is one of our all time favorites but please update.
We remember playing this game so much when it first came out. We had so much fun with it. We finally found it again and is still pretty fun. Ahh the memories.
Great game we have beaten it twice now.
We just need to say to everyone ITS EPIC.
Excitante y Stresante juego aunque no dejo de jugarlo.
Fun game you can pick up and play anytime. Lots of skulls.
We couldnt begin to say enough good things about this game! Besides being SUPER fun, it's very inventive and engaging. …..skeletons with pistols and fedoras!! LOVE IT!! It can be more than a challenge of mind and patience sometimes (for us anyway) but thats what a game is! No ads, no $ to 'move on up'. What a novel idea! It makes this game sit well with it's 'throw back' theme. Would love to see one of these pistol packin' bag of bones make every angry bird a DEAD bird!! Yup….looking at YOU rovio!! We will certainly keep an eye on this developer in the future, they got everything right on this one!! GD JB.
This game is our favorite app on the app store and we need more we have a love of spooky games and Halloween is coming up so if you made more it would be amazing keep up the good work.
Slick art, varied level design, intuitive but often challenging gameplay, we cannot run out of positives. Delightful flashbacks of the Spider series from Tiger Style.
Throughout Enjoyed the game. Wishing for more variety in part 2. Towards the end the game got kind of Tiring because we felt we were doing the same thing over and over again.
Angry Birds meets Super Meat Boy.
Don't even ask, just buy the game and do your self a favor.
This is a platformer with a unique and fun movement mechanic that's easy to understand and fun to master. Good level design with plenty of hard to reach goodies, clever boss levels and, god it feels so good to headbutt enemies. Best of all, the unique movement mechanic lends itself to the game's touch input controls rather than being inhibited by them like most conventional platform games on the App Store.
Great game, lots of care went into it. Worth the price of admission.
Seriously great game. Worth every penny, a lot of levels and balanced difficulty makes this a joy to play.
This is crazy addicting! Great freaking game.
… Addictive. Fun and we may be impartial with the 5 stars but we love all things skull! BEFORE it was cool okay! Not that we claim emo or any such weird thing. Just a normal chick with lots of skull tattoos and fake boobs. California proud. MORE LEVELS AND ILL BRAG ABOUT THE GAME ON MY IG and we've never done that! So let's recap… It's fun (our phone has been threatened to be taken away). It's fun clever more levels needed asap more levels needed asap Best two things about it … NO IN APP PURCHASES! And skulls. End review.
Mllions of people whine about free apps.They know very well "they got what they paid for".AS DO we so "hold the cheese please!! Keep on keepin on.
What the heck am we playing? We don't know what is happening but it's certainly good.
Found this today and can't put it down.
We LOVE this game! It's so well put together – probably the best designed, touch-based platformer we've played – perhaps the Angry Birds team should have followed Skullduggery's gameplay lead for their last few editions. Excellent and compulsive (always dangerous!) Great job, ClutchPlay.
This game is very hardcore but it is supper fun. We not very good at the game but it is still fun.
If you love platformers and a great change of pace from other games on the App Store you will love this game.
Fr mich definitiv das Geld wert mehr Bracht Mann nicht wissen von mir 5 Sterne!! Top Spiel fr zwischendurch.
In a lot of ways it reminds us more of super meat boy than anything else. The control scheme is reminiscent of angry birds but the way the game feels is much closer to a hardcore platformer. Short levels. Lots of do overs. Constant fear of death. It's hard, but in a way that is absolutely impossible to put down. Absolutely the most fun we've had playing a platformer on the iPhone. The new world is pretty amazing guys. Thanks for the update.
Very we'll put together. Everyone who plays it can't put it down. No adds no begs thank you.
So stoked for more levels! Love, love, love this game and especially love seeing Dev's maintaining and updating.
Hey guys, we were waiting for so long for this new world, But you kind of miss the achievements for Game Center. Hope you can add some new achievements for the new world soon. Still great game :).
We love this game, it is really well made, the levels are fun and addicting, but once it gets to the hard bits.. It starts to give us really bad anxiety and stress, this is probably only for us. We would still recommend playing it, we are sure that this wont happen to you. Sometimes it takes years to get past certain levels. Like we said, its a good game, and pretty addicting, It just causes some problems for us personally. Good job.
Game is fun and original and definitely worth a few bucks.
Sure is a disappointment that the devs have abandoned this game.
Well polished but boring and repetitive. Not worth the $.
Ridiculously overpowered bosses make this an potentially great game into an exercise in frustration.
Hardcore but if you don't like cool games don't get this one but we love it.
This aesthetically repulsive platformer quickly devolves from mild fun into painful frustration. Over-powered enemies, bland, repetitive environments, and banal prerequisites all lend to an experience best left to the plebs. The developers don't deserve your money; don't give it to them.
Our son and we play and it is fun, challenging, and we love the graphics!! Highly recommend playing.
We love this game because it is fast, fun and makes you have to problem solve quickly.
We were hesitant at first given the price tag. Just get it. It is well worth the money. Plus, you're helping to support indie game developers. PLUS, it is really nice to be able to play an awesome game without being nagged by ads or "like this" and "share that" crap all the time. If you want something fun, original, and downright pretty to look at, get this game.
Passed the whole game in three days and we've fallen in love with it….. It is absolutely, positively, exponentially THE best game app we have EVER played!!! We'd rate this 10 stars for addictiveness and charm.. Now waiting for the new update…. This game is a keeper ;) continue with the good work.
We are only a few levels in but we think it s well worth the money.
We still love this game. It takes a lot to impress us. The other reviews pretty much sum it up…A beautiful gem worth every penny. Game of the year 2014…Looking forward to the final world.
By far one of the best games we've played. It's so cool, and the different skulls you unlock are even cooler! Definitely worth the money.
This game is an absolute blast, it's totally worth the money! It's fun, goofy, random, and easy to pick up and play. Also, we can't stress this enough: NO IN APP PURCHASES!! You pay, you get the game, and that's it. The game itself has a TON of content as well.
Very Awesome And Fun Game we Advise All Of You Guys To Get This And PLAY This.
Was skeptical about this game at first but we've gotta say it is so much fun! We would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves slingshot games.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.1
- Size: 148.07 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: ClutchPlay Games LLC
Last updated: 3rd February 2026 | Genre: Action, Adventure | Developer: ClutchPlay Games LLC