CARRION
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
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A BANGER at $6.74, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.6h
- Value
- $4.35/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, compatible with OpenGL 3.0, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 52 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $6.74 BANGER line 25 times.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Party Hard ($9.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Blasphemous ($24.99, scores 64).
75 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
15 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,654 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 2,454 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
97% start to 14% 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
Players
44 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Desperately need more games in this genre. Carrion is by far the best straight up "be the monster game" and its a shame that no other devs make anything like it. Gameplay is super fun with really my only complaint being its map and lack of enemy variety. The map is confusing and extremely samey with most environments looking way too similar to each other. Theres like 5 enemies in the entire game with those being a...
Fun game for $1.99. Cool little metroidvania with smooth physics system. You play as a blob monster that goes around eating humans and gaining powers. Worth the time
I love games where i can be the monster Also the monsnter in this game is super cool
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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CARRION scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/953490/carrionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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