CARRION Reviews

Love the concept and overall great game that I completed to 100%, only critique is that sometimes it can get kind of easy to get lost due to similar environments, but overall had a great time.

Conceptually great but not well executed, a very short game without replay value. Grab it on deep discount.

CARRION is super fun, the only complaint I have is I wish there was more, I have played the entire game twice and multiple workshop campaigns. So even if I think CARRION is super fun I would only get it on sale.

Cooooool game but my god is it hard to navigate (you can find maps online tho so it's ok)

A short game, with a big flaw. I need to say that this game marked a certain part of my life (2020 Lockdown.). So i'll be a [i]little[/i] biased. I first saw a Spanish YouTuber (Alexelcapo) playing this game, with a rather interesting thumbnail on his YouTube video. It was one night at 4 a.m., and I’m not going to lie — the game hooked me instantly. I pirated it right away, stopping the video at around the 20-minute mark, because the game is expensive and, well, I didn’t have any way to get money other than birthdays or certain special occasions. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up doing an any% deathless speedrun of the entire game (1:44 hrs), despite being a complete newbie to speedrunning. The game meant so much to me that it stuck with me for quite some time. It’s the only memory from 2020 that I can truly treasure. Five years later, now I can buy my own games, I saw this game on sale on Steam — and you know what? It really caught my interest again. 2020 left a huge mark on me; it was a very different time, and I managed to find peace in the solitude of the things around me back then. So I decided to buy it, taking advantage of the sale, and well… I can’t say much else about it. The game is quite short (~3–4 hours for a first playthrough, minimum). Right now, I’ve gotten all the achievements, including the extra capsules, just like I did back then. For a $10 game, it delivers a lot of quality in those 4 hours, even if for some people, “only” 4 hours for a first run feels like “a waste of money.” However, beyond its appeal as a “play as the villain-protagonist” kind of game, it has one MAJOR flaw — the cutscenes. Whenever you perform an action (like pulling a lever) or kill a certain number of enemies required to progress, the game insists on taking away control of your character and shifting the camera to show you what has changed in the environment. And it does this EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It’s VERY frustrating, YOU pulled a lever of a door that was in front of you? FORCED CAMERA CUT to show THE DAMN DOOR IN FRONT OF YOU. I don’t remember this being such a big flaw during my first playthroughs — maybe because my memories of 2020 are blurry and I tend to only remember the “good” parts — but it’s something that can really HURT the experience, especially if you dislike losing control of your character. Honestly, it’s still a gem, and something I’ll keep as one of the good memories 2020 left me. TL;DR Short, but great, Expect camera steals every time you do something. Buy if you can live with that. If not, wait for sales. lmao

Great game challenging puzzles great graphics overall 10/10

Horror game but you're the monster. It also feels a bit like a puzzle game.

THE FLESH OF THESE POINTLESS PEASANTS SHALL QUENCH MY THIRST... 10/10 The developer really thought through all the levels and made it challenging but not enough to rage quit.

The game starts off strong with a cool premise, and the first couple of hours were genuinely fun. But around the halfway point, the gameplay started to wear thin, It doesn’t really evolve, you keep breaking seals, grabbing humans, and moving on, without much variety. Combat, while brutal in concept, ends up feeling soft and unsatisfying, like you’re just slapping enemies around instead of tearing through them. Movement also becomes a bit clunky as the creature grows, making traversal feel less fluid than it should. Grabbing stuff can also be frustrating. Sometimes you accidentally grab something completely useless (like a light bulb) and for some reason, the game won’t let you drop it or interact with anything else until you wrestle the controls back in place. It kills the flow of the moment and makes you feel like you’re fighting the mechanics instead of the enemies. The last part of the game wasn’t terrible, just less fun. It lost momentum, and by the end I was more neutral than excited. It's an interesting concept for sure, but for me, the novelty didn’t last. Not a bad game, just not one I can recommend.

Carrion perfectly answers the question "What do I want to be when I grow up?" for me: yes, my ultimate dream is to become a horrifying, indescribable mass of teeth, eyes, and tentacles that sprays blood everywhere and produces a ground-shaking roar. I want to slither in the vent ducts, emit a haunting glow with my tentacleyes, crush metal, glass, and bone with my tentacleteeth. It's a very cosy game, extremely relaxing, perfect after a long and difficult working day, especially if you have a public-facing job. The plot is very light to not distract you from the pleasant gameplay, and so the ending is a pleasant surprise.