CARNAL
Worth it · Shooter · 2021
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Length
- 2.7h 8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 344 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
CARNAL is a fast and challenging retro FPS straight from the mid '90s. The Sons of Anak are opening portals to extract Dark Matter from the "other side". Combat the possessed soldiers, the manifested demons helping them, and any inanimate objects standing in your way!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NIVIDIA GeForce GTX 750ti, 1004 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
29 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM 64 ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats INCISION ($8.99, scores 60).
More about CARNAL
Of the 334 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.7 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
41% start to 17% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Carnal's that game you play when your friend invited you over to hang out a long long time ago and he showed you some custom Quake levels he'd been working on. There's a fun kind of polished amateur feeling to it when it comes to the presentation, which really endeared me to it. It's just a bit rough around the edges, but a lot of fun, creativity and passion shines through. I even feel a bit of Duke Nukem sneaking...
2 more reviews
Probably the best single dollar I ever spent. Great gameplay with great design! + Great classic FPS gameplay + Relatable, real world themed locations like Duke Nukem 3D + "Short" game but HUGE open levels. Insane replay value from that alone. + Cool enemy variety throwing PLENTY of curveballs with very unique and often exclusive enemies in several different levels. Kinda reminds me of Painkiller for the enemy...
The BEST shooter of this type on steam considering the price (1 dollar). You get many levels with great guns and combat, dev really understands what makes games like this tick. There are games on this platform that cost much more but are much worse due to the devs not understanding the genre. The first level is a bit longer than the others and has more of a "horror" vibe than the rest of the game, imo. Don't base...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
CARNAL scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1586290/carnalReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.