3/5 ★ – Dead_By_Dawn's review of CARRION.

My favourite movie of all time, is The Thing. So when I found out a few months ago there was a game where you played as a tentacled monstrosity, I was up for it. Sadly the game wasn’t as good as I had hoped. It was enjoyable for a time and it’s not a bad game. But it’s unbelievably short. Taking me around 5 hours to beat it. Despite only being 5 hours, it started to absolutely drag. Most likely down to a severe lack in gameplay variety. Your only ever looking for points in the game to deposit bio mass, upon doing so a part of a door becomes red. When the door is fully Red it opens. This can take 3 deposits at the start and up to 6 at the end. So your only ever doing more of the same thing. The monster looks cool and it moves so fluidly. I love the pixelated art style as well. Killing the humans never really got boring and I loved bursting into a room covered in spikes and just ending people. It helps to have a great sense of direction because it can become hard knowing where to go in this game. There’s no map. You can echo located to get the general sense of where to head to next but it’s not very helpful. All in all I had fun. But man I ended up just wanting this game done and off my backlog.