Game review
DeadboySkeleton
5.5 / 10
- Developer
- GreyCigarGames
- Publisher
- GreyCigarGames
- Released
- 2 July 2026
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genre
- Action
- Monetisation
- One-time purchase, no in-game store, no IAP
- Players
- None; fully single-player
The short version
DeadboySkeleton is a strange, sincere thing: a cheap third-person action game built, by the developer's own description, as "a love letter" to TeamSesh, an underground hip-hop collective with a devoted online fanbase. You wake up dead, explore a handful of maps as a skeleton, break down other undead corpses with melee weapons or firearms, and inspect items along the way. This review read all 35 English-language reviews in the game's sample — small enough to cover completely — and found something worth naming honestly: a large share of them are single-word fandom slogans ("SESH," "Sesh," "SESHTILLIDIE") rather than actual assessments of the game.
Filtering those out, the substantive minority paints a more measured picture than the raw 95% positive score suggests: genuine praise for the soundtrack and atmosphere, alongside real, specific complaints — inconsistent item spawns, an unpopular stamina mechanic, weapons that feel interchangeable, and more than one reviewer openly admitting the game is "obviously a cashgrab on the sesh fanbase" while still enjoying it anyway.
Biggest strengths
- A genuinely well-received soundtrack, singled out specifically and repeatedly by reviewers as the game's strongest element, independent of the fandom connection
- A sincere, specific tribute to a real music community rather than a generic reskin, with reviewers describing real affection for the atmosphere and references throughout
- Very cheap for what's on offer, and reviewers who acknowledge its rough edges still frequently say they don't regret the purchase
Biggest weaknesses
- This review's complete sample skews heavily toward one-word fandom slogans rather than substantive assessments, meaning the raw 95% positive score reflects community loyalty at least as much as it reflects the game's actual quality — worth knowing before treating that number at face value
- Real, specific bugs reported independently by multiple reviewers: an item that fails to spawn on repeated playthroughs of the first map, and at least one account of being unable to equip any weapons at all shortly after release
- A stamina mechanic drew a direct, specific negative review asking for its removal entirely
Who it's for: TeamSesh fans looking for a cheap, sincere tribute to engage with, and anyone curious about music-fandom-driven indie games as a genre unto themselves rather than expecting a polished, standalone action game.
Our recommendation: A reasonable pick at its low price specifically for TeamSesh fans, who will get the most out of its atmosphere and soundtrack regardless of its rough mechanical edges — general action-game audiences should expect thin, buggy gameplay underneath the tribute.
5.5 / 10
Most indie games chase a genre or a mechanic. DeadboySkeleton chases a fandom. It's a cheap, third-person action game the developer describes plainly as "a love letter" to TeamSesh, an underground hip-hop collective with a famously devoted online following — you wake up dead, explore a handful of maps as a skeleton, and break down other undead with melee weapons or firearms along the way. This review read all 35 of the game's English-language reviews in full, out of 42 total, and found something worth reporting honestly before repeating the raw score: a substantial share of this sample isn't really reviewing the game at all.
When "SESH" is the whole review
Reading through the complete sample, a clear pattern emerges. Reviews reading simply "SESH," "Sesh," "S E S H," "SESHTILLIDIE," "sesh," and close variants appear more than a dozen times — genuine expressions of fandom loyalty, almost certainly sincere, but carrying no actual assessment of gameplay, bugs, or value. That's worth naming directly rather than padding this review with quotes that don't say anything: a meaningful chunk of this game's 95% positive score is community affirmation rather than critical consensus, and readers weighing that number should know the difference.
What the substantive minority actually says
Filtered down to reviews with real content, the picture is more mixed and more interesting. Several reviewers are strikingly candid about the game's nature. "This is obviously a cashgrab on the sesh fanbase but this is the best steampoop game i've played. I hope the dev patches the billion bugs," reads one. Another puts it even more bluntly: "This game is garbage but I dont regret my purchase somehow." A third: "Love the concept...alittle buggy in plenty of places. Good job TeamSesh for your first game!" That combination — real fondness alongside open acknowledgment of rough execution — recurs enough to read as the sample's honest center of gravity, rather than either extreme.
The soundtrack draws consistent, specific, non-ironic praise even from critical reviewers. "The soundtrack is fire but the game physics and all is trash," reads one negative review, making clear the split isn't between fans and critics — it's between one genuinely strong element and several weaker ones within the same reviews. Another: "Soundtrack to this game is 10/10! if it was available to buy i would!"
Real, specific bugs worth knowing about
Beyond the vibes, this review's sample surfaces concrete, reproducible problems. One detailed review describes a spawn-consistency bug directly: "the problem is that I only found the pistol once, and I played the first map five times. So, I couldn't find it the other four times because it simply wasn't there." A separate reviewer reports a more severe launch-week issue: "played upon release and couldn't equip any weapons and there wasn't a clear function to load a menu to equip anything to fight back." A negative review raises a specific mechanical complaint: "PLEASE GET RID OF STAMINA MECHANIC it would be WAY better without it." And more than one reviewer separately notes that the available weapons don't feel meaningfully different from each other in practice.
This review checked the patch history for a response and found one concrete, if narrow, example: the game's only major update, posted 18 July, added eight achievements — one per map — directly answering a specific player request ("Goat. Just need achievements.") from two weeks earlier. The same update mentions general bug fixes without specifics, and the item-spawn and stamina complaints above are dated after this patch, so this review can't confirm whether those particular issues have since been addressed.
Final verdict
DeadboySkeleton is an unusual object to review honestly: a sincere, cheap tribute project whose review sample is dominated by fandom applause rather than critical assessment, sitting on top of a genuinely rough, buggy action game with one clearly strong element in its soundtrack. Reading past the one-word slogans to the reviewers who actually engaged critically, the verdict that emerges is more modest than the headline score — real affection for what it's trying to be, paired with real, specific, currently unresolved technical problems.
Worth the low asking price specifically for TeamSesh fans who will connect with the tribute regardless of its jank; general action-game audiences drawn in by the score alone should expect something thinner and buggier than 95% positive implies.
Players who want that same sense of a small, personal project built with real sincerity, on a much more polished and complete foundation, may also want to look at Wanderer.
Pros and cons
Pros
- A genuinely well-received soundtrack, singled out specifically and repeatedly by reviewers as the game's strongest element, independent of the fandom connection
- A sincere, specific tribute to a real music community rather than a generic reskin, with reviewers describing real affection for the atmosphere and references throughout
- Very cheap for what's on offer, and reviewers who acknowledge its rough edges still frequently say they don't regret the purchase
- The developer added eight achievements in a mid-July update directly in response to player requests, a small but concrete sign of ongoing support
- A distinctive premise for the genre — exploring as a skeleton, inspecting flavour-text items, breaking down undead enemies — that stands out from more generic low-budget action games
Cons
- This review's complete sample skews heavily toward one-word fandom slogans rather than substantive assessments, meaning the raw 95% positive score reflects community loyalty at least as much as it reflects the game's actual quality — worth knowing before treating that number at face value
- Real, specific bugs reported independently by multiple reviewers: an item that fails to spawn on repeated playthroughs of the first map, and at least one account of being unable to equip any weapons at all shortly after release
- A stamina mechanic drew a direct, specific negative review asking for its removal entirely
- More than one reviewer says the different weapons feel functionally interchangeable rather than meaningfully distinct
- At least one reviewer describes enemy difficulty as unbalanced, with bots outmatching a melee-only loadout
Screenshots
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DeadboySkeletonImage: GreyCigarGames via Steam -
DeadboySkeletonImage: GreyCigarGames via Steam -
DeadboySkeletonImage: GreyCigarGames via Steam -
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The short versionWanderer Editorial