CARRION
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.35/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 36,549
- Critics
- 75 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.6h
- To 100%
- 6.3h 1.4x the story
- Achievements
- 21
Price and sales
- Sales
- 54 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 165 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
97% start to 14% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 54 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $6.74 BANGER line 27 times.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 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 BUTCHER ($9.99, scores 60).
More about CARRION
75 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,932 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 2,482 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The Monster Is You. And It's Glorious. Ever wondered what it feels like to be the monster in a horror movie? Carrion lets you find out, and it's absolutely fantastic. Instead of running away from some horrifying creature, you ARE the horrifying creature. You slither through vents, crawl across ceilings, smash through obstacles, and hunt down terrified humans who desperately try to survive your rampage. Watching them...
2 more reviews
A small cute game about the best boi (girl?) Pros: + Good art style and sound design + Several mechanics (nomnom, blargh, sniki, spiky, sturdy, possession, and mechas!) + Several enemy types (nomnom :D, no nomnom :(, traps kaboom! and mechas ratatatata!) Cons: - There is no map, so running around like a headless (technically correct) chicken (technically incorrect) is not fun.
Carrion is an extremely fun and fluid metroidvania. The constant introduction of new mechanics keeps the gameplay interesting and allows you to clear rooms in multiple ways using different abilities. As you progress, the game gradually becomes more challenging, with some sections feeling more puzzles-like as you try to figure out how to reach the next area. The achievements were a relatively easy 100%, although...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, compatible with OpenGL 3.0, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
CARRION scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/953490/carrionReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.