@s-m-k When i went to the local files, the only thing there is the app itself. I'm using a mac, could that be the problem possibly? Or maybe i did it wrong. I right clicked, Carrion beta on my steam library, then i went to, browse local files and i just showed the app. CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origin. Stalk and consume those that imprisoned you to spread fear and panic throughout the facility. Grow and evolve as you tear down this prison and acquire more and more devastating abilities on the. Carrion is a reverse horror video game in which you assume the role of an undefined alien being. Stalk and consume those that imprisoned you to spread fear and panic throughout the facility. Grow and evolve as you tear down this prison and acquire more and more devastating abilities on the path to retribution.

I remember getting pretty excited for Carrion when it was first announced. The Thing is one of the few horror films I’ve always really liked, and Carrion takes a lot of cues from it.

“Reverse horror games” as a whole are a pretty interesting concept that is surprisingly underutilized in the game industry. It was easy to get pumped up by the idea of playing as a giant, incomprehensible mass of tentacles and teeth as you stalk your prey.

Then, Carrion pretty much disappeared from the public eye. We went so long without new info that I actually forgot about it, only for the game to suddenly reappear at last year’s E3 as part of Devolver Digital’s latest lineup of quirky, bizarre, or otherwise unique indie titles. After another year of waiting, Carrion has finally received a full release, and I’m happy to report that its just as fun as the initial concept looked.

Carrion
Developer: Phobia Game Studio
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Platforms: Windows PC (Reviewed), Linux, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One
Release Date: July 23rd, 2020
Players: 1
Price: $19.99

In Carrion you play as an amorphous blob of tentacles, teeth, and claws with an insatiable appetite for flesh; that has just escaped a high security bio-lab. A secretive and heavily militarized biotech firm not unlike the Umbrella Corporation or Weyland-Yutani found your revolting biomass and thought “Why don’t we collect some samples of that? What could possibly go wrong?”

As it turns out, they collected a lot of samples and shipped them to various labs and outposts all over the place. As the spiteful, unholy abomination that you are, it’s your job to navigate through nearly a dozen labyrinthian, interconnected levels, absorbing biomass and DNA to teach humanity why they shouldn’t poke random alien monstrosities to see if they bite.

The actual story of Carrion is mostly told through the environment instead of explicitly telling you what is going on. There is no spoken dialog in the game, unless you count the horrified screams of lab technicians as you consume their flesh to expand your mass.

There are a few areas where you control humans that expand on the backstory of the creature and how it was found, but for the most part you’ll be piecing it all together yourself by paying attention to your surroundings.

Carrion is structured a bit like a pseudo-Metroidvania. While there isn’t a huge emphasis on exploration and finding lots of hidden secrets, you’ll often find yourself backtracking to old levels once you’ve absorbed more DNA and acquired new abilities. The levels are designed in such a way that they loop back around, and subtly guide you to where you need to go next to advance the story.

That isn’t to say there aren’t optional objectives, however. There are nine extra DNA containers that often require some pretty serious backtracking to get to as you acquire new abilities. These contain small buffs like extra energy, or more tentacles to grab enemies with.

Unfortunately, Carrion doesn’t have a map, so going back to grab these optional containers can be fairly tedious, especially if you have a bad memory or are otherwise awful at navigation. Instead, all you can do is use echolocation to get a vague idea of where the nearest save points and travel nodes are.

The lack of a map is only really an issue when backtracking to find the optional containers though, because the game’s levels are designed in such a way that you can generally figure out the way forward, just not necessarily the way back.

The primary containers you’ll be smashing give you more significant upgrades, like new abilities and expanded biomass. Your creature has three “forms” that can roughly be described as small, medium, and large. You start with five health pips, with the medium and large forms each adding an additional five more.

Each form has a unique attack and ability. Your attack can be performed simply by holding the E key, while your ability requires energy to use. You can replenish your energy by absorbing electricity from strategically-placed fuse boxes.

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In your small form, you’ll be able to shoot out a net of sinew to pin enemies, and use camouflage to blend in with your surroundings to sneak past enemies and some security measures. The medium form has a powerful lunge attack, and can grow hundreds of bony spines to temporarily turn yourself into a living wrecking ball.

Finally, the large form can shoot dozens of barbed tentacles that impale and pull objects and enemies towards you, as well as grow a thick layer of chitinous plating that can absorb a single explosive hit.

Regardless of your current form, you also have the ability to grab enemies and objects with tentacles as your basic attack. Later on, you gain the ability to stab enemies in the back with a mind control tentacle, allowing you to use them like a meat puppet to cause distractions or solve puzzles.

One of the main concerns I had from the game’s Halloween demo last year was that the movement felt a little clunky. You are playing as a jiggling blob of biomass propelled forward by writhing tentacles, and in many ways you control pretty much like what you’d expect from a sticky ball of gore and organs.

Luckily, the controls feel much smoother in the full game. That said, your expanding biomass becomes more unwieldy as you grow, with your large form in particular being a bit too fat to quickly squeeze through some gaps and tunnels.

Because of this you’ll occasionally have to struggle a bit with the controls to get your creature to go where you want it to. It certainly isn’t a game breaking issue, but it can cause some annoyances at times.

Each form’s skills and attacks have specific uses in both combat and navigation. By tying your abilities to each form, the game creates situations where you’ll need to figure out which form to use to get past the game’s many environmental puzzles.

There are pools of water where you can deposit biomass, allowing you to devolve into smaller forms to solve puzzles, and then come back later to reabsorb it as needed.

Some examples of these puzzles include shooting your small form’s net through a gap to hit a lever, smashing through barricades with the medium form’s lunge attack, or covering yourself in the large form’s armor plating to get past a landmine.

Despite your arsenal of biological weapons, Carrion leans a bit more towards the stealth side of things when it comes to combat. While you can easily take out a few security guards with handguns, some of the more heavily armed enemies can quickly reduce you to a red paste if you aren’t careful.

Some of these harder enemies include androids with taser shields that always carry assault rifles or flamethrowers, and big stompy mechs with miniguns. As it turns out, fire and just sheer bullet volume are both good ways to deal with a formless mass of organic material rampaging through laboratories.

If you haven’t figured out yet from the screenshots, Carrion is an absolute gory mess. Human enemies get torn in half, and nearly every combat encounter ends in a bloodbath as viscera coats the walls and floors to mark your passing.

Sneaking through ventilation shafts to stalk your prey and attack from different angles is exhilarating, and the larger battles give you plenty of opportunities to play with your arsenal of tentacles, teeth, and spikes. The way your tentacles control is also satisfying, allowing you to easily grab a combat drone midair, and send it flying into a wall across the room with a flick of your mouse.

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