Games Like CARRION

MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.

Why similar: Gore 29.4%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Violent 11%, Action 7.1%, Sci-fi 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a strange lab-born organism navigating hostile facilities with sticky movement, environmental puzzles, and a strong alien-creature perspective.

Sea Salt is a dark fantasy reverse horror action-strategy game where you play as the nightmarish force of Dagon by controlling and growing a horde of minions.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 41% ★, Lovecraftian 15.2%, Gore 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Horror 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like CARRION, it flips horror on its head by putting you in control of an eldritch threat hunting and panicking humans.

A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!

Why similar: Physics 23.3%, Puzzle 14.3%, Action 13%, 2D 12.3%, Platformer 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest tonal and mechanical cousin to CARRION, casting you as a growing amorphous blob that devours everything in a side-scrolling sci-fi escape.

Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania with a focus on atmosphere and horror, inspired by the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.1%, Gore 16.6%, Horror 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Violent 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a grotesque body-horror metroidvania built around organic weapons and exploration, making it one of the best aesthetic matches.

Become the ultimate shape-shifting weapon!

Why similar: Gore 46.4%, Violent 19.5%, Villain Protagonist 12.1% ★, Action 9.2%, Horror 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its biomass powers, brutal tendril attacks, and consume-to-evolve loop echo CARRION's monster fantasy even in a 3D open-world format.

Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 60.1% ★, Gore 21.9%, Violent 11.8%, Action 2.5%, Adventure 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: Though fully 3D, it nails the same predatory power fantasy of consuming victims, growing stronger, and becoming an unstoppable creature.

Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Gore 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Violent 10.1%, Horror 4%

Why You'll Like It: If you want more gore-drenched pixel-art exploration with disturbing creature design, this is one of the strongest follow-ups.

APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

Why similar: Gore 49.3%, Violent 26.5%, Action 6.3%, Indie 4.9%, 2D 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its entire appeal is the violent breakout fantasy of being a nonhuman beast smashing through armed captors.

Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

Why similar: Metroidvania 69.2%, Platformer 8%, Action 7.2%, Adventure 5%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its absorb-and-adapt combat and unsettling organic world capture some of the same body-horror appeal from a tougher action-RPG angle.

Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 34.2%, Puzzle 14.6%, Action 11.3%, Platformer 10.4%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares CARRION's oppressive facility-escape mood, side-on perspective, and fascination with experimentation and fleshly horror.

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.7%, Physics 8.5%, 2D 7%, Platformer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly excels at making you feel like an animalistic predator-prey creature surviving through mobility and instinct in a hostile world.

Sundered is a chaotic hand­-drawn metroidvania where you resist or embrace ancient eldritch powers, a challenging and unique take on a classic genre from the creators of Jotun, now with local co-op!

Why similar: Metroidvania 44.9%, Lovecraftian 25.1%, Horror 5.5%, Platformer 4.7%, 2D 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a fast, grotesque metroidvania full of fleshy monstrosities, upgrades, and frantic movement through hostile labyrinths.

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 58%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 4.9%, Sci-fi 4.3%, Platformer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same kind of eerie, ability-gated sci-fi exploration through strange bio-mechanical spaces.

Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 42.4% ★, Gore 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Horror 9.4%, Puzzle 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches a similar reverse-horror itch by putting you in charge of spreading monstrous chaos through human populations.

You are the Prototype, Alex Mercer, a man without memory armed with amazing shape-shifting abilities, hunting your way to the heart of the conspiracy which created you; making those responsible pay. Fast & Deadly Shape-Shifting Combat: Reconfigure your body to the situation at hand.

Why similar: Gore 52.7%, Violent 17.8%, Action 11.5%, Horror 5.3%, Adventure 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its shape-shifting biomass combat and devour-based progression make it feel spiritually close to CARRION's monster mechanics.

Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.

Why similar: Gore 42.5%, Horror 15.4%, Lovecraftian 13%, Violent 10.6%, Puzzle 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Even without the same pacing, its biomechanical nightmare world and relentless body horror line up well with CARRION's aesthetic appeal.

BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

Why similar: Gore 31.7%, Villain Protagonist 31.5% ★, Violent 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It trades exploration for pure side-scrolling ultraviolence, but the pixel gore and merciless slaughter feel very CARRION-adjacent.

DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.

Why similar: Gore 36.4%, Pixel Graphics 21.6%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%, Violent 9.3%, 2D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D stalking, ambush-heavy level design, and efficient killing can appeal if you liked CARRION's predator feel more than its exploration.

Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.

Why similar: Metroidvania 52%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Action 10.1%, Adventure 6.7%, Sci-fi 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its alien biotech aesthetic and exploration-driven progression make it a good fit if you liked CARRION's metroidvania side most.

An intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.

Why similar: Gore 60.3%, Violent 13.1%, Horror 12.7%, Action 8.8%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its gleefully vicious tentacle combat channels the same 'monster tearing apart helpless humans' energy from a first-person perspective.

REDO! is a game about a girl trying to find another human in a dystopian world overrun by biomachines. It's a lonely and evocative game about exploring the unknown and overcoming obstacles to see what is left.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Horror 12.6%, Action 8.9%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This moody 2D sci-fi horror adventure shares CARRION's lonely, hostile atmosphere and fascination with decayed bio-industrial spaces.

Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.

Why similar: Indie 27.8%, Physics 19.9%, Action 15.1%, Platformer 12.7%, Adventure 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Controlling a living blob with physics-based movement gives it a direct mechanical kinship with CARRION's fluid creature traversal.

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a Horrorpunk Action RPG filled with Lovecraftian horrors and Cronenbergian gore, making it the most gruesome take on the isometric Souls-like genre yet!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.1%, Gore 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Violent 9.5%, Horror 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a gruesome, oppressive horror action game that fits if you want more flesh, filth, and monster-infested brutality after CARRION.

A retro city smash 'em up with satisfying destruction physics. Play as a Giant Monster unleashing terror upon mankind in this modern arcade experience with the action turned up to eleven.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 66.2% ★, Gore 17.8%, Physics 6.8%, Sci-fi 2.6%, 2D 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another playful monster-villain power fantasy, this time through destructive city-smashing and over-the-top carnage.

BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.

Why similar: Metroidvania 66.1%, Action 8.9%, Platformer 8.1%, 2D 8.1%, Adventure 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its metroidvania progression built around taking on the abilities of defeated creatures makes it a clever mechanical match.

They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.

Why similar: Gore 44.4%, Lovecraftian 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Horror 6.6%, Platformer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its frantic bloody platforming and horror-inflected pixel aesthetic overlap nicely with CARRION's more violent indie side.

J.J. scours Memoria Island to find her best friend, who has gone missing during a camping trip. In order to save her best friend, she puts her own body and life on the line, reviving infinitely, as she presses forward. Why did she go missing? What is going on in this world?

Why similar: Gore 64.2%, Horror 14.2%, Action 5.6%, Indie 5.3%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its disturbing body-manipulation platforming and horror tone make it a strong pick for fans of CARRION's grotesque physicality.

Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.

Why similar: Gore 36.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Violent 11.5%, Action 8.2%, Metroidvania 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a brutal sci-fi sidescroller packed with gore, monstrosities, and grimy industrial carnage.

The followup to 2009's Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a combo-fueled, fast-paced, stylistic 2D action platformer that features the series' staple gritty, graphic novel-inspired art style, built on a new engine that allows for an even more visually gruesome experience.

Why similar: Gore 58.5%, Action 13.3%, Horror 10.3%, Indie 8.3%, 2D 6%

Why You'll Like It: It is another savage 2D gorefest with fast, vicious combat and a bleak, horror-tinged atmosphere.

Become a demonic priestess of lust and use her unique skills to take revenge on your enemies. Regain your kingdom making hell tremble under your hooves! Leave no one alive if they won't bend the knee.

Why similar: Gore 53.6%, Violent 22.7%, Horror 11.1%, Action 4.4%, Adventure 2.6%

Kill. Eat. Evolve. METAL! \m/

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 55.7% ★, Gore 17.8%, Violent 8.8%, Lovecraftian 6.4%, Horror 3.6%

Take on the role of a merciless torturer. Earn money from video transmissions of your manhunts.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 50.1% ★, Gore 25%, Violent 11.9%, Horror 7.4%, Action 3.4%

Hatred is a violent twin-stick shooter, in which you take the role of The Antagonist fighting against all of humanity.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 43.3% ★, Gore 32.9%, Violent 16.5%, Action 2.9%, Horror 2.6%

An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Why similar: Puzzle 18.5%, Action 16.8%, Physics 15.8%, Indie 13.6%, Adventure 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Guiding an amorphous organism through hostile environments captures some of the same unusual movement appeal, even if it is less aggressive.

Swing through the trees, spin sticky webs, and make friends with bugs! Be the adorable spider you've always wanted to be.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32.9%, Physics 21.5%, 2D 10.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Platformer 8.7%

Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 25.4%, Gore 23.9%, Violent 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 9%, Action 7.5%

Equipped with supernatural powers, take control of Lucius as he begins his blood filled tour of horror through his own house.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 58% ★, Gore 17.3%, Horror 11.8%, Violent 3.5%, Puzzle 2.7%

Defeat your enemies , take their body parts to replace yours and become another strong boss yourself.

Why similar: Gore 43.8%, Lovecraftian 15.5%, Violent 14.9%, Action 7.7%, Indie 5.8%

A short pixel psychological survival horror and gruelling story told with no words.

Why similar: Gore 24.2%, Horror 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 21.2%, Violent 10.5%, Puzzle 5.3%

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 40.7%, Physics 28.8%, 2D 11.8%, Action 10.1%, Indie 8.6%

The cult-classic returns! Terrorize the people of 1950's Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 69.4% ★, Gore 12.7%, Action 5.8%, Violent 4.2%, Adventure 3.7%

A Victorian mansion. A cult worshipping an otherworldly erotic deity. Among all that - you. Explore a world inspired by the works of Lovecraft, Giger, and Beksiński. See for yourself that there are no limits to dark ecstasy.

Why similar: Gore 39.5%, Horror 23.1%, Lovecraftian 16.7%, Violent 11.4%, Sexual Content 2.6%

Marrow is a 2D, Cosmic-Horror themed, action-adventure game emphasizing challenge, puzzles, platforming, combat and navigation. Leap, crawl, slash and blast your way through the cavernous bowels of a menacing mountain in a quest to find your lost friends.

Why similar: Gore 52.9%, Violent 28.3%, Action 7.4%, Indie 6.1%, Adventure 5.2%

Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.

Why similar: Gore 32.1%, Horror 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Violent 12.3%, Action 4.1%

Lucius game has been demade, and is now ready for mayhem. Enjoy all the gore now in fewer pixels and fewer colors. The original game has been fully demade to achieve the atmosphere of an 80's style gory adventure. Lucius is now killing all the pixels and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 46.9% ★, Gore 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%, Horror 6.6%, Violent 5.8%

My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

Why similar: Gore 43.9%, Violent 21.6%, Action 10.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%, Indie 5.1%

It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 84% ★, Puzzle 4.7%, Physics 4%, Indie 2.6%, Action 2%

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 54.5%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Action 12.8%, 2D 11.7%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…

Why similar: Horror 28.6%, Physics 22%, Puzzle 12.4%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Action 11.1%

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 50.3% ★, Gore 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Violent 10.8%, Great Soundtrack 2.7%

Sad Satan is a horror and mystery game that takes you on a terrifying journey through dark corridors and locations filled with secrets

Why similar: Gore 42.2%, Indie 15.8%, Adventure 11.7%, Action 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…

Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.3%, Horror 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Puzzle 11.5%, 2D 6.3%

What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.

Why similar: Gore 26.4%, Horror 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Violent 12.1%, Lovecraftian 10.8%

Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.3%, Horror 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Action 4.7%

Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.

Why similar: Gore 38.5%, Violent 20.2%, Horror 17.1%, Lovecraftian 14.9%, Indie 2.7%

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Puzzle 22.6%, Adventure 15.6%, Action 15%, Platformer 13.6%, Indie 13%

Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Why similar: Gore 50%, Violent 18.2%, Physics 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Horror 4.8%

Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.

Why similar: Physics 44.7%, Puzzle 19.3%, Action 16%, Indie 12.6%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Become a demonic priestess of lust and use her unique skills to take revenge on your enemies. Regain your kingdom making hell tremble under your hooves! Leave no one alive if they won't bend the knee.

Why similar: Gore 52.4%, Violent 22.7%, Horror 12.3%, Action 5.9%, Sexual Content 2.3%

You awake on an unknown planet with amnesia. What are those horrific monsters? Who are these mysterious priestesses? Inspired by cult classics such as "Another World", "Flashback" and others, Dogolrax aims to surprise you in ways few games have.

Why similar: Gore 34.4%, Violent 21.6%, Horror 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Platformer 3.9%