What Is Cruelty Squad? The Game Behind Our Merch
Cruelty Squad is a single-player tactical first-person shooter and immersive sim for Windows, made by Consumer Softproducts, a Finnish studio run by artist and lead developer Ville Kallio. This store is where its merch lives. Here is the short version of what the game is.
What kind of game is Cruelty Squad?
A first-person shooter where every mission can be played your way. Steam lists fast movement, a varied set of weapons, lethal and non-lethal approaches to each job, hidden gear and levels, and replayable missions with S-rank goals. Its Steam tags say the rest: Surreal, Psychedelic, Cyberpunk, Dark Humor, Dystopian, Stealth.
When did it come out?
- Early Access: 4 January 2021, on Steam.
- Full release: 15 June 2021.
- Engine: Godot.
Why does it look like that?
The look is the point. Clashing checkerboard corridors, purple and red walls, acid-green blobs and low-poly figures: Rock Paper Shotgun called the visuals "sensorally aggressive". Our designs carry the same colours, from flesh red to toxic green and lime.
How was it received?
Steam reviews rate it Overwhelmingly Positive, and it holds an 89 on Metacritic (as of 2026-11).
Where do the designs come from?
From the game's world: its faces, its monsters and its deadpan warnings. Four designs so far, Life, Resist Cocaine, Cruelty Squad and Divine Light Severed, each on tees, long sleeves, crewnecks and hoodies, with kids' and youth sizes too.