Carrion
Carrion is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous alien being. Use your unique otherworldly abilities to your advantage and hunt down your prey!
Carrion is an adventure developed by Phobia Game Studio, released 23 July 2020 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $3.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 6.2 hrs to finish.
What Carrion is
Carrion is an adventure game developed by Phobia Game Studio and released in 2020. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on MonoGame.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Carrion is a reverse-horror game that casts the player as the monster rather than its victim. A red, amorphous, tentacled creature of unknown origin awakens inside a research facility run by a company called Relith Science, where it has been held and studied in containment. Breaking free, it slithers through vents and corridors, hunting the scientists and soldiers who stand between it and the outside world. As it devours its way deeper into the complex, the creature reclaims stolen fragments of its own genetic code, evolving new and terrifying abilities while uncovering fragments of how it came to be imprisoned.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 21 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Carrion holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 203 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.2 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.64 per hour of the main story, or $0.53 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 core processor, 1024 MB RAM and compatible with OpenGL 3.0. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Carrion launched on 23 July 2020, within three weeks of Ghost of Tsushima, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Risk of Rain 2 and Fall Guys. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Ghost of Tsushima, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Risk of Rain 2, Fall Guys.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Carrion yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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