Review: Carrion (Steam)

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

Pros:

• Decent pixel art graphics.
• 151mb Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Steam trading cards.
• Full controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, v-sync, and exclusive fullscreen mode.
• Separate control schemes for the human and the monster. You can rebind either on both keyboard and the controller.
• Chillingly beautiful soundtrack.
• Tutorial pop-ups on the screen when needed.
• You create your own save points by spreading your biomass in designated spots of the map. This will heal you back to full health.
• Monster-you move lightning fast and can grab items/doors and people! With people, you can swing them around, break them in half or even just straight up eat them.
• Smooth controls. Very easy to fly around the levels.
• Stylish as sh*t.
• Cartoon style gore.
• Find toxic containment barrels to unlock new abilities.
• Puzzle platformer gameplay.
• So quick to action.
• The game opens up and lets you live out the fantasy of being the big bad monster in a lab experiment gone wrong.
• In areas you see the state of the place from seals breached, containment unit, and biomass samples lost. They serve as a way to show progress.
• Biomass-as you acquire new abilities, they overwrite a previous one, you can use pools of ooze to drop biomass so you can use the other ability.
• Monster’s health is displayed as you take damage but you as a monster get smaller as they shoot parts off you.
• Play as a human every now and then and it’s more puzzle orientated.
• Fast loading times.

Cons:

• The tutorial is at the start and then that’s it.
• The initial learning curve with the grabbing of items and doors especially.
• No map or guidance.
• The story is more left to your interpretation.
• Playing as a human is boring and requires you to be pixel perfect with finding interactions.
• Difficulty spikes.
• Doesn’t explain the whole abilities/biomass.
• No replayability.