Carrion

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 283 Ratings

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  1. HydrophobikFish
    Jun 9, 2023
    7
    Fun take on a metroidvania where youre the alien monster. Not much gameplay variety, but short enough not to outstay its welcome and fun enough while it lasts. Could do more to sell the predator fantasy.
  2. Jerg4n
    Apr 8, 2023
    7
    A short fun burst, one of those games you play through in one sitting. Combat, puzzles and the metroidvania elements are all well executed.
  3. BigManReviewer
    Apr 8, 2023
    3
    Very quickly this game just becomes, solve simple puzzles, blood and guts and wandering around aimlessly.
  4. ibanegas
    Mar 20, 2023
    7
    I have to text something without another option if I want to rate the game: 75/100 is fair for me. Enough? Haha.
  5. The_D4RknesS
    Jun 22, 2022
    10
    This developer always makes games with simple graphics and high violence.
    the creature in this game resembles a mixture of SYMBIONTE and THE THING
  6. Morados9
    Jan 3, 2023
    10
    La sorpresa del año. Horror y disfrute a partes iguales......................
  7. SilverOrlov
    Dec 27, 2022
    9
    Ever since childhood, I have been afraid of my grandmother's jar of "kombucha" ... and not in vain, as it turned out.
    ...
    This is a great game experiment on what it's like to be a monster escaping from a secret lab. I noticed two minuses for myself: (1) Very short! Here they could turn to their fullest, deepen the development of the monster, show some plot, interesting, opportunities,    Ever since childhood, I have been afraid of my grandmother's jar of "kombucha" ... and not in vain, as it turned out.
    ...
    This is a great game experiment on what it's like to be a monster escaping from a secret lab.
    I noticed two minuses for myself: (1) Very short! Here they could turn to their fullest, deepen the development of the monster, show some plot, interesting, opportunities, but the game ends very quickly, unfortunately. (2) In the battle with drones, it is very inconvenient to catch nimble carcasses with a gamepad.
    Other than that - WANT MORE!    … Expand
  8. Hachafaill001
    Dec 25, 2022
    0
    No es mal juego pero no sobresale en absoluto de la media, si puedes jugarlo por un buen precio no creo que te arrepientas
  9. EVIL_UJIN
    Oct 15, 2022
    7
    Игра представляет собой аркаду в стиле реверс-хоррор. В хорроре МЫ прячемся и боимся монстров, а здесь все боятся НАС! Мы - непонятная, аморфная инопланетная тварь, которая вырвалась из лаборатории и хочет на свободу! Бегаем, поедаем людишек, наращиваем массу, мутируем, создаем гнезда-сохранения по всему комплексу. Время от времени нужно решать логические задачки в стиле "как же достатьИгра представляет собой аркаду в стиле реверс-хоррор. В хорроре МЫ прячемся и боимся монстров, а здесь все боятся НАС! Мы - непонятная, аморфная инопланетная тварь, которая вырвалась из лаборатории и хочет на свободу! Бегаем, поедаем людишек, наращиваем массу, мутируем, создаем гнезда-сохранения по всему комплексу. Время от времени нужно решать логические задачки в стиле "как же достать тот рычаг и открыть ту дверь".

    Про геймплей: Динамичный, сочный геймплей с отрыванием голов и прочих выступающих частей тела. До смерти напуганные работники компании, которая так неосторожно пленила вас - неизвестный организм - бегают по комнатам с пистолетом в трясущихся руках и визжат от ужаса, когда видят, как очередного напарника разорвало на части прямо у них над головой). Позже офисных работников сменят охранники с огнеметами, боевые роботы и автоматические турели, но это не убавляет веселья, и дает какой-то челлендж. Ведь мы не стоим на месте, а тоже эволюционируем, и через несколько уровней мы сможем становиться невидимыми, стрелять шипами во все стороны, а потом и вовсе с помощью тонкого щупальца брать под контроль охранников. Ммм.. А если рядом окажется пустой шагающий робот с пулеметами.. Собственно, наша задача - не уничтожение противников, а открытие различных заслонов на пути к свободе. Нужно нажимать разные рычаги, протискиваться в узкие проходы, обманывать лазерные датчики и т.д. В игре присутствуют элементы метроидвании - в некоторых местах вы не можете пройти дальше, пока не обретете нужную способность. Особенно это относится к секретным апгрейдам.

    Про сюжет: его нет. Вы - аморфная тварь, которая ищет путь к свободе, а жалкие людишки с помощью всяких хитростей пытаются ей помешать.

    Про музыку: Она есть. Не завораживает , но и не напрягает. Охранники орут почему-то женскими голосами) Но это мелочи. Не звуки слушать мы сюда пришли. У нашей твари и ушей-то нет. Зато много щупалец, глаз и зубастых ртов, *злобный смех*.

    Про графику: все видно на скриншотах) Да, она пиксельная, но расчлененка сделана хорошо и физика достаточно реалистична. Все разлетается, отталкивается от стен и падает на пол, заливая все красной жидкостью вполне красиво. Учитывая,что геймплей, как уже было сказано, весьма динамичен, нам особо некогда любоваться пиксельными красотами.

    Про продолжительность: игра не очень долгая, на пару-тройку вечеров. Ну можно, конечно, упороться и пройти ее за день, но получите ли вы от этого удовольствие? После финала можно загрузить чекпойнт и спокойно побегать по комплексу в поисках недостающих спрятанных банок (всего их 9 , по одной в каждой зоне).

    Итог: неплохая пиксельная аркада без сюжета с оригинальным, но немного монотонным геймплеем.    … Expand
  10. Hellord
    Sep 3, 2022
    10
    Игра быстрая, конечная и дает возможность поубивать этих жалких людишек. Игра на один вечер.
  11. TomKing13
    Jul 17, 2022
    7
    c: ........................................................................
  12. RedRody
    Jul 4, 2022
    9
    A very fun game. It takes a while to get used to the controls. Different art with well-made ambient sounds! It took me about 4h-5h to finish. I recommend everyone to try it!
  13. Zeneko90
    Jun 1, 2022
    8
    Nettes. Spiel es hat echt viel Spaß gemacht. Mehr davon ! Nicht zu lang, nicht zu kurz. Genau richtig.
  14. Samx1992
    Apr 28, 2022
    8
    wonderful game. and though it's simple yet it's so much fun. Highly recommended for horror lovers
  15. OtraPerspectiva
    Jan 20, 2022
    9
    Alguna vez te preguntaste como seria ser una criatura al estilo de “the thing” pues estas de suerte debido a que esa es justamente la premisa de carrion, encarnas a una criatura que esta atrapada en un laboratorio secreto y debes abrirte paso a travez de las instalaciones para buscar la libertad, siendo necesario matar a las personas que traten de detenerte.

    Carrion es un juego    Alguna vez te preguntaste como seria ser una criatura al estilo de “the thing” pues estas de suerte debido a que esa es justamente la premisa de carrion, encarnas a una criatura que esta atrapada en un laboratorio secreto y debes abrirte paso a travez de las instalaciones para buscar la libertad, siendo necesario matar a las personas que traten de detenerte.

    Carrion es un juego metroidvania con un hermoso aspecto de pixel art, con pintas de terror, aunque no muchas, tiene animaciones muy bonitas y los controles de la criatura se sienten muy pulidas y fluidas, tanto jugando con control como jugando con mouse y teclado, aunque la precisión que permite el ratón es mucho mejor que la del mando a mi parecer.
    Como buen metroidvania empezaras con pocas habilidades y con un personaje muy débil que a lo largo de su búsqueda de libertad ira consiguiendo mas y mas poder, ya sea aumentado su tamaño o desarrollando unas habilidades muy particulares, como puede ser un brazo especial para activar interruptores a distancia o capacidades mas “entretenidas” como el controlar humanos y usarlos como tus marionetas.

    A nivel de historia no se habla mucho de la misma hay una seria de misiones al estilo de flashback en las que encarnas a un humano y te hablan superficialmente el cómo se descubrió la criatura y como termino apresada, más allá de esto debes especular un poco.
    El único punto negativo es que, a mi parecer, en algunas instancias no se sabia completamente que era lo que tenias que hacer con algunos puzles muy frustrantes, sin embargo en general el titulo es muy exequible y fácil de entender.

    Sin duda Carrion es un increíble titulo que recomiendo probar, no hay muchos títulos con esta premisa y la ejecuta completamente espectacular dándote una sensación de poder que no e visto en muchos juegos.    … Expand
  16. nitorita
    Jan 4, 2022
    7
    Despite what you may have been led to believe, Carrion is not a Metroidvania but a 2D adventure game where you traverse through a maze of different facilities as a monstrous human-devouring symbiote.

    Although the game features unique gameplay and is buttery smooth to play, its greatest weakness is its lack of a map, which is ironically the quintessential feature of a Metroidvania. It is    Despite what you may have been led to believe, Carrion is not a Metroidvania but a 2D adventure game where you traverse through a maze of different facilities as a monstrous human-devouring symbiote.

    Although the game features unique gameplay and is buttery smooth to play, its greatest weakness is its lack of a map, which is ironically the quintessential feature of a Metroidvania. It is easy to get lost and waste time backtracking through areas to try to find where to go next. This can wear your patience thin as it is unrealistic to memorize the map to know where to head back to and travel next. This can force you to spoil yourself with walkthroughs in order to figure out the path onwards.

    The game itself is not particularly difficult and is forgiving with its abundant save rooms. The game has plenty of potential, which was unfortunately misused. There isn't much of a story to keep you interested either, making it hard to play for longer sessions. Overall, Carrion is an interesting experience, but not one to go through twice. It is also rather short.

    GREATEST TIME OF THE YEAR DLC
    I'm not really sure what to rate this DLC, as it was completely optional and had no story to it. It's meant to be played after the main game, and I did not really need to try all that hard in order to beat it in about 20 minutes. I suppose it's worth playing if you enjoy the original game, want more to play, and can get this DLC for free, but otherwise, I wouldn't recommend bothering with it. 6.5/10    … Expand
  17. EmirhanSahin
    Jan 2, 2022
    6
    Sometimes it feels like a Metroidvania but Nah it is a linear adventure puzzle game. Did ı say puzzle? Nah. If you have a specific skill you can move on. But if you haven't sorry pal.
  18. TiredAlfred
    Jan 1, 2022
    4
    In Carrion you’ll assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origin. Players will stalk and consume those that have imprisoned it to spread fear and panic t
  19. Babutto
    Oct 30, 2021
    8
    It's a cool game. Worth trying. I mostly enjoyed exterminating everyone on the base.

    Pros.: - You play as a monster. Usually, you exterminate them. Finally, you have a chance to exterminate humans. - Quite interesting mechanic of moving and killing. Yet, very simple. - Improvements to the monster. Cons.: - Short. - The moment in the story about humans and the recovery of the    It's a cool game. Worth trying. I mostly enjoyed exterminating everyone on the base.

    Pros.:
    - You play as a monster. Usually, you exterminate them. Finally, you have a chance to exterminate humans.
    - Quite interesting mechanic of moving and killing. Yet, very simple.
    - Improvements to the monster.

    Cons.:
    - Short.
    - The moment in the story about humans and the recovery of the monster could be more emphasized with better precision. I expected more from that part. It was also extremely easy to play.    … Expand
  20. tommydlbass
    Sep 19, 2021
    7
    Short game that is super fun to play. Not much to say. A map would have been good.
  21. ChumaGG
    Sep 4, 2021
    7
    Es divertido.

    Los unicos puntos negativos que tiene es que dura muy poco, se vuelve un poco repetitivo (pese a durar poco) y los controles se sienten raros.

    si necesitas divertirte un rato (y no tienes mucho tiempo para jugar) este juego bastara.
  22. Sydorek
    Aug 18, 2021
    7
    Very good atmosphere, physics, music and sounds. The only downside is that the last 10 minutes of gameplay are a real maze
  23. Burzyk
    Jul 17, 2021
    7
    Too many mazes looking almost exactly the same! Cool idea on the other hand.
  24. Thanatos909
    May 7, 2021
    6
    ХОРОШАЯ ИНДИ ИГРА НА "РАЗОК".
    Прошёл игру в один заход часа за четыре, получив приятные эмоции. Вопреки классическому хоррор сценарию, разработчики CARRION дают ИГРОКУ роль "нечто"-подобного существа, готового рвать и метать всё вокруг, получилось, довольно оригинально и забавно =). Сюжет так же присутствует, но к сожалению его куда меньше чем ожидалось и хотелось бы, что для меня, один    ХОРОШАЯ ИНДИ ИГРА НА "РАЗОК".
    Прошёл игру в один заход часа за четыре, получив приятные эмоции. Вопреки классическому хоррор сценарию, разработчики CARRION дают ИГРОКУ роль "нечто"-подобного существа, готового рвать и метать всё вокруг, получилось, довольно оригинально и забавно =). Сюжет так же присутствует, но к сожалению его куда меньше чем ожидалось и хотелось бы, что для меня, один из главных минусов. Помимо этого в игре присутствуют и другие недостатки, например в игре очень неудобно ориентироваться в пространстве, а так же к концу игры, когда прокачка существа подходит к концу, становится чуток скучновато, но да ладно, пустяки, это не помешало мне получить приятные эмоции от данной игры.
    Итог - 6 тентаклей из 10    … Expand
  25. Kristoff_PL
    Mar 21, 2021
    9
    Great atmosphere, great fun!
    Great atmosphere, great fun!
    Great atmosphere, great fun!
  26. SwipySwapy
    Mar 17, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bought Carrion about a week or so ago, and have played it enough since then to last me a lifetime. You won't spend more than around 6ish hours on your first playthrough, but that's only because you don't know where to go, and haven't realized how linear the game is. Once you know where entrances to areas are, the game's about 2-3 hours.

    The combat is... interesting. It's either sit around and wait for an enemy to come close enough to you to grab or just bum rush and hope you don't die.

    Your offensive abilities are mediocre, each one you get making you larger. The first one you get is a bloody web that can trap human enemies and those weird drones for a little bit making them unable to do much except for scream and flail. The second one is a dash, which's only good for breaking stuff, as all of the enemies it's worth using on have shields that damage you on contact. The third one is the most useful, making you shoot out a bunch of tentacles with spikes that deal massive damage and rip things towards you violently. You get a handful of defensive and passive abilities as well, such as Hyrdophilia that turns you into a mass of worms when you go underwater. The first defensive ability allows you to turn invisible provided there's light around. The second covers you in a mass of keratin spikes that deal damage to enemies when you ram them, ignoring shields, and is best for bum rushes. Third gives you incredibly strong armor that resists all damage. All of these defensive abilities require energy to function, which can be restored with electrical boxes found all over the map.

    There are 5 enemies, being human with a gun, a human with a gun and armor that you can't eat, human with a flamethrower and armor that you also can't eat, a square drone that shoots you, and a weird boxy mech that shoots at you real fast. These get repetitive very quickly and soon become boring and gimmicky once you figure out how to easily kill them. Bullets deal a lot of damage to you uncomfortably quickly, and the only way to regenerate health is by eating humans or going to one of your hives, but as you get later in the game edible humans become less common.

    The puzzles are fun the first time, sometimes frustrating. Most of them revolve around you going back and forth between areas, dropping off bits of biomass to use abilities from previous levels.

    I give it a 5, it's fun at first but becomes gimmicky and boring. It's too short for $20, and there's just not enough content to warrant the price.    … Expand
  27. Tomplifier
    Feb 17, 2021
    5
    Disappointing. I like pixel-art, but this art-design is not for me. The gameplay wasn't either. I was bored.
  28. Crisener
    Jan 30, 2021
    8
    I wouldn't describe it as a 'reverse horror', rather as a short and fun gore metroidvania. But I do understand where the complaints are coming from - even I had to google how to get to the ending, but, thankfully, I had enough luck to go through this game with almost no 'no idea where to go' issues. I would give it a higher score, but lack of proper guidance can be a serious issue. Still,I wouldn't describe it as a 'reverse horror', rather as a short and fun gore metroidvania. But I do understand where the complaints are coming from - even I had to google how to get to the ending, but, thankfully, I had enough luck to go through this game with almost no 'no idea where to go' issues. I would give it a higher score, but lack of proper guidance can be a serious issue. Still, it doesn't have to be and I'd say give it a try - it's on gamepass and maybe you'll have as great a time as I had.

    + moving with the monster is soooo smooth and fun
    + fights and puzzles properly escalating in difficulty
    + 4 hours is a perfect length for this kind of game
    + fitting pixel art

    - easy to get lost, with no in-game way to find out where to go
    - human memory puzzles seemed a bit unnecessary    … Expand
  29. LisaCroft
    Jan 4, 2021
    7
    Reverse Horror in charmanter Pixeloptik angelehnt an das Metroidvania-Genre. Lohnt sich!
  30. waffle247
    Dec 27, 2020
    9
    Fun game, good for the £12 it cost me. Towards the end I started to get a little lost & a couple of the puzzles were quite challenging. That meant a lot of traversing around the map trying to figure out where I was supposed to go next. I think it could have done with something to point players towards the objective at least, a map system would have been better. It did get stale in the lastFun game, good for the £12 it cost me. Towards the end I started to get a little lost & a couple of the puzzles were quite challenging. That meant a lot of traversing around the map trying to figure out where I was supposed to go next. I think it could have done with something to point players towards the objective at least, a map system would have been better. It did get stale in the last hour or so. I got around 5 hours out of it before that point. Grab it in a sale.… Expand
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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 57 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 57
  3. Negative: 1 out of 57
  1. CD-Action
    Oct 15, 2020
    75
    The joy of watching this wild tangle of pixel art tentacles, organs, and flesh (and listening to the sounds of humans being devoured) alone makes this game worthwhile. If, just like me, you always root for the bad guy, Carrion’s gameplay can be immensely satisfying. [10/2020, p.54]
  2. GameMAG
    Sep 12, 2020
    50
    Carrion has all the potential to become really interesting, but right now it feels like a technical demonstration of an incomplete concept.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Aug 20, 2020
    77
    Carrion has a handful of annoying shortcomings, but it perfectly depicts everyday life of a scary alien creature from a horror movie, and that’s a monumental achievement by itself.
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