Carrion
Developer Phobia Game Studio
Publisher Devolver Digital
Format PC (tested), Switch, Xbox One
Release Out now
We don’t know about you, but with the year we’ve been having, there’s something cathartic about a game that lets us be the monster. Perhaps it’s just nice to be the one dismantling civilisation for once, rather than forces out of our control, viral, governmental or otherwise. This might, in a strange way, be the right moment for Carrion – but most of the credit has to go to the game itself, and specifically how good it feels to steer its unlikely hero.
As an amorphous glob of teeth, tendrils and bubbling surplus DNA, you don’t navigate spaces so much as flow through
