All of the items on this 31 days of horror have so far been about monsters or supernatural entities that have you on their radar. Carrion flips the script and turns you into an insatiable, tentacled flesh beast–and it’s fun as hell.
Carrion is a side scrolling action meets puzzle platformer that has you playing as a teethed and tentacled flesh creature. Your goal is to free yourself from the research facility where you’re being held–while devouring your enemies along the way and acquiring new abilities.
As you make your way through the facility with the goal of escaping, you’ll not only meet terrified scientists but also armed guards–even those equipped in armored mech suits. Even as an amorphous ball of flesh, you can be killed. To combat this you’re fast, and can get to places the humans can’t–allowing you to jump out of air ducts to devour them–or you can pull them in and eat them there. There is a lot of flesh eating in this game, I should point out.
As the monster you move inhumanly fast, and can run through a group of hapless people in moments. And if they know you’re around, armed humans will be more cautious–while the scientists cower in fear, and cry. It’s very dark, but you’re a hungry ball of flesh–and you have to eat something. The more you eat, the larger you get as you take on more and more mass.
And the amount of mass you have surprisingly makes a difference. As a larger mass you can take more damage, but you can fit through smaller spaces if you have less mass. Luckily you can shed mass willfully and without having to take damage. In fact, you can leave your chunks of flesh behind so that they can be re-aquired later to bring you back up to size. Fleshily.
While there have been games where you play as the antagonist, nothing quite captures playing a body horror, Aliens-adjacent flesh beast like Carrion does. If you’re tired of being scared this Halloween season, and instead want to bite back, there’s nothing quite like Carrion.
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