CARRION Reviews

CARRION is ranked in the 67th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Jul 23, 2020

Carrion is a great concept that becomes repetitive in practice.

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IGN Italy
Top Critic
7.8 / 10.0
Jul 27, 2020

An anomalous metroidvania in the intent as traditional in the realization. The creature's alien and brutal beauty is only partially supported by an equally good world to explore. It remains a fascinating title, made with care, that really lacks that extra flicker to excel.

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Jul 23, 2020

Carrion turns the horror genre on its head by letting you be the monster this time in a Metroidvania style game, which serves as the perfect type game to pick up and play between many of the other larger scale releases that have released this year.

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Windows Central
LaurenRelph
Top Critic
Jul 22, 2020

This is a tough yet fun creepy crawler with decent replay value you will want to tuck back into. This game includes a maze of levels, an evolving tentacle-beast, and a whole lot of people to consume. Play as the villain and eat like a king.

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Aug 1, 2020

Inspired by a 1950s sci-fi horror movie, Carrion turns you into a malign marauding blob, swallowing scientists whole

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ZTGD
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Jul 23, 2020

Easy to pick up and play, CARRION is original, absorbing and entertaining.It also has an excellent soundtrack – it’s cinematic horror vibe is the perfect accompaniment for the bloodbath that ensues.

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8.3 / 10.0
Jul 23, 2020

Inspired by Carpenter and the 80s body horror, Carrion reverses the roles and puts us in the shoes of a formless and lethal creature, in a fluid, fast and extremely choreographic metroidvania. Some AI problems and a not always inspired artistic direction do not compromise the result of one of the surprises of this 2020.

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90 / 100
Jul 29, 2020

In our current market oversaturated media, there is something invaluable in a game that doesn’t waste your time.

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Jul 30, 2020

Carrion is a superb actioner staring an alien mass.

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GameMAG
Top Critic
5 / 10
Aug 11, 2020

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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6 / 10
Oct 31, 2021

Despite the gameplay and level design being pretty middling, we still think this game is worth a spin. It’s all about the atmosphere, and the organism itself, both of which are rousing successes and worth the price of entry alone.

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7.5 / 10.0
Nov 5, 2021

Carrion presents you with an opportunity to take the reigns of an invading monster, and it delivers on all fronts with visceral gore and effects that translate vividly even through its pixelated style. The lack of a map combined with navigational and interaction clumsiness make for a more cumbersome Metroidvania formula, but the payoffs of gameplay and exploration outweigh the issues that Carrion presents.

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8.8 / 10.0
Aug 14, 2020

Carrion is a fascinating reversal of the typical Metroidvania. Playing as a hungry, tentacle abomination is fast, fluid and unnerving. My only complaint is that there is no mapping function, which can make progression a chore.

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Jul 27, 2020

CARRION mixes familiar and alien elements to produce a memorably brutal inversion of the horror genre.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 2, 2020

Regardless of the few gripes I have with Carrion, the title is such an original idea that it's very easy to recommend.

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Twinfinite
Jared O’Neill
Top Critic
3 / 5.0
Aug 4, 2020

As it stands, Carrion is an impressive, creative, and inventive game on paper. In practice, it ends up being a rather middle-of-the-road experience, with unfulfilled promised of potential greatness. If you’re looking for an inventive new take on the Metroidvania genre, Carrion might be what you’re looking for –but don’t go into it expecting it to be Super Meat-troid.

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7.8 / 10.0
Jul 23, 2020

Carrion is a fun but flawed 2D horror game with a fun hook. It doesn't play perfectly, and the controls are particularly hit-or-miss, but overall, there's a lot of fun to be had when you get to be the monster and leave a path of destruction in your wake.

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7.9 / 10.0
Oct 19, 2020

In Carrion we will revive with a retro pixel aesthetic the fear of a horror movie from the 80's, only in this case we will be in the place of the monster. A very fun game to enjoy from start to finish.

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TechRaptor
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Jul 22, 2020

Carrion is a delightfully gruesome game that has just as many puzzles as it does action.

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PC Invasion
Top Critic
8 / 10
Jul 23, 2020

Although Carrion is a relatively short game with little replayability, its quirky theme and ravenous flesh monster make for a fun feeding frenzy.

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