Games Like CARRION

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 46.5%, Horror 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This eerie metroidvania stars an alien creature that steals skulls for new abilities while exploring a mysterious, hostile world.

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 60.4% ★, Gore 21.7%, Violent 11.9%, Action 2.5%, Adventure 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: Playing as an ever-growing shark that terrorizes humans and devours prey makes this an excellent 3D counterpart to CARRION's predator fantasy.

The Guise is a dark metroidvania fairy tale about a boy trapped in the body of a monster. Can he hold onto his humanity? It's up to you.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, Horror 15.7%, 2D 5.5%, Action 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: You play a boy transformed into a grotesque creature, using monstrous powers in a bleak pixel-art metroidvania full of unsettling imagery.

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

Why similar: Gore 42.9%, Horror 15.1%, Lovecraftian 13.1%, Violent 10.7%, Puzzle 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although slower and more puzzle-focused, its oppressive biomechanical environments and visceral alien imagery strongly match CARRION's aesthetic.

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 38.1%, Gore 23.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Violent 10.2%, Horror 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its grim pixel-art world, graphic violence, grotesque boss designs, and deliberate exploration make it a natural fit for CARRION's darker side.

Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their minds into robotic imposter bodies and are ruled by a computer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 62.8%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Action 10.5%, Platformer 7.3%, Great Soundtrack 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its possession-based exploration lets you hijack bodies and turn enemies into tools, delivering a similarly mischievous inversion of the usual hero role.

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: Villain Protagonist 32.2% ★, Gore 31.6%, Violent 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same compact pixel-art brutality and relentless gore, with levels designed around turning heavily armed humans into pulp.

Be the Zombie. Kick A** and Take Brains.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 79.6% ★, Violent 14%, Action 3.1%, Adventure 2%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: As a zombie protagonist, you eat brains, possess civilians, and build a shambling horde while rampaging through a retro city.

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 70.1%, Platformer 7.9%, Action 7%, Adventure 4.7%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal action metroidvania is built around absorbing enemies, altering your body, and exploring a disturbing world of living stone and flesh.

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 46.1%, Lovecraftian 24.4%, Horror 5.3%, Platformer 4.7%, 2D 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This hand-drawn metroidvania combines sprawling exploration with overwhelming eldritch body horror and increasingly powerful upgrades.

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 41.9% ★, Lovecraftian 14.9%, Gore 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Horror 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: You command an eldritch swarm to punish and consume terrified humans, offering a strategic spin on CARRION's reverse-horror premise.

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 42.5% ★, Gore 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Horror 9.1%, Puzzle 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Instead of surviving a zombie outbreak, you direct one, mutating undead and overwhelming human defenses in a gruesome pixel-art campaign.

The pinnacle of alien evolution, Maw is a cowardly fat blob concerned mostly with snacking and lounging. He can, however, absorb the traits of anything he eats, is virtually indestructible, and can grow to unlimited size. If he wasn't a danger to all life in the universe, he'd make the perfect pet.

Why similar: Action 33%, Indie 33%, Platformer 19%, Adventure 12.9%, Cute 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: This creature-driven adventure centers on feeding, growing, and consuming the environment, albeit with a much lighter and more comedic tone.

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 18.4%, Violent 11.2%, Action 7%, Sci-fi 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: You guide a strange living specimen through a sinister laboratory, making its hostile research-facility setting especially complementary to CARRION.

A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Gore 25.1%, Violent 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its procedurally generated biomechanical labyrinths, grotesque enemies, and ability-gated exploration evoke CARRION's organic metroidvania side.

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 38%, Pixel Graphics 20.9%, Physics 7.8%, 2D 6.7%, Platformer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutal ecosystem makes you feel like a small creature navigating and hunting within a dangerous living food chain.

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 70.3% ★, Gore 12.2%, Action 5.7%, Violent 4.2%, Adventure 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its destructive alien-protagonist campaign shares CARRION's joy of being the invader, terrorizing and consuming an unsuspecting human world.

You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 17.8%, Metroidvania 17.3%, Action 14.3%, Horror 12.2%, Platformer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its claustrophobic alien caverns, oppressive atmosphere, and harsh combat offer a tense, horror-leaning take on 2D exploration.

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 66.7% ★, Gore 17.7%, Physics 6.5%, Sci-fi 2.6%, 2D 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This gleefully destructive pixel-art kaiju game lets you play the rampaging monster and reduce human cities to bloody rubble.

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 35.2%, Pixel Graphics 20.6%, Great Soundtrack 9.9%, Violent 9.4%, 2D 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark pixel-art infiltration missions and sudden, lethal violence suit players who enjoy stalking through confined hostile spaces.

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Why similar: Horror 37%, Sci-fi 23.9%, Action 10.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.7%, Atmospheric 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its alien-infested station and unlockable mimic abilities let you approach encounters as an increasingly uncanny and dangerous organism.

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 41.1%, Physics 28.6%, 2D 11.8%, Action 10.2%, Indie 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game's physics-driven destruction, volatile alchemy, and pixel-art carnage reward the same experimental appetite for chaos and gore.

Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.7%, Action 21.7%, Platformer 16%, Adventure 15%, Atmospheric 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This bizarre survival adventure centers on evolving a vulnerable alien species through mutations in a surreal, threatening ecosystem.

Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.9%, Violent 16.1%, Gore 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Action 5%

Why You'll Like It: This brutally violent retro metroidvania offers dark occult imagery, branching morality, and crunchy action for players drawn to CARRION's gore.

Usurper is a Metroidvania Action-RPG. With Eldritch horrors having been unleashed by the outer-worldly Citadel, your job is to rid London of its terrors. Use the new "Guard" system that rewards skillful play and accuracy, to uncover the massive structure and defeat the nightmares lurking within.

Why similar: Metroidvania 53.1%, Lovecraftian 20.8%, Action 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This compact Lovecraftian metroidvania emphasizes oppressive atmosphere, unsettling creatures, and dark exploratory combat.

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

Why similar: Gore 44.6%, Lovecraftian 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Horror 6.5%, Platformer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its violent pixel-art platforming, monstrous protagonist, and Lovecraftian presentation make it a compact fit for CARRION's aesthetic.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

Why similar: Metroidvania 79.2%, Action 6.3%, Great Soundtrack 4.7%, Adventure 3.3%, Platformer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its expansive gothic castle, monstrous enemies, and enemy-power absorption provide a polished exploration-and-upgrade alternative.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

Why similar: Gore 35.8%, Pixel Graphics 23.7%, Horror 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 9.1%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This grotesque action roguelite combines body-horror imagery, fleshy dungeon spaces, and wildly mutating combat abilities.

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 98.3% ★, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: As an evil dungeon master, you construct a lair, command monsters, and cruelly repel heroic intruders from your underground domain.

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 32.2%, Physics 20.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, 2D 9.8%, Platformer 8.7%

Kill. Eat. Evolve. METAL! \m/

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 56.1% ★, Gore 17.7%, Violent 8.8%, Lovecraftian 6.3%, Horror 3.5%

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 43.9% ★, Gore 32.6%, Violent 16.6%, Action 2.8%, Horror 2.5%

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

Why similar: Gore 23.8%, Horror 22%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, Violent 10.5%, Puzzle 5.7%

Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 42.4% ★, Metroidvania 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Action 7.2%, Indie 5.2%

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 54.6%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Action 12.7%, 2D 11.6%, Singleplayer 5.8%

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 17.2%, Horror 11.4%, Violent 3.5%, Puzzle 2.9%

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 44.3%, Violent 21.7%, Action 10%, Great Soundtrack 7.1%, Indie 4.8%

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 53%, Violent 28.7%, Action 7.4%, Indie 5.8%, Adventure 5%

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%, Gore 23.9%, Violent 16%, Great Soundtrack 9.5%, Action 7.5%

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 50.5% ★, Gore 16%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Violent 10.7%, Great Soundtrack 2.8%

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 58.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%, Sci-fi 4.2%, Platformer 3.8%

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 28.2%, Physics 21.3%, Puzzle 13.7%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Action 11.1%

After a science experiment gets out of control, you need to survive and escape this dark prison that hides weird secrets. The game is a cinematic platform of terror and stealth, inspired by INSIDE, Another World, Blackthorne and Prince of Persia.

Why similar: Gore 40.1%, Horror 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Action 4.3%

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%, Horror 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Puzzle 12.6%, 2D 6.2%

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Horror 48.5%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%, Puzzle 20%, 2D 7.5%, Adventure 3.9%

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

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 82.5% ★, Puzzle 5.1%, Physics 3.7%, Indie 2.4%, Action 1.9%

Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

Why similar: Metroidvania 66.4%, Action 15.5%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 5.7%, Cute 1.9%

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Horror 53.3%, Action 17.6%, Adventure 12.8%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Singleplayer 7%

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 47% ★, Gore 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, Horror 6.3%, Violent 5.8%

A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 62.2% ★, Gore 20.7%, Violent 9%, Horror 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 28.3%, Gore 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Violent 9.6%, Horror 8.9%

Take an exciting journey with Twisty, the floating brain monster, as he battles his way out of an insane asylum in this hilariously bizarre, action/adventure game.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 38% ★, Gore 29.4%, Violent 15.9%, Horror 5.2%, Action 4.3%

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.1%, Gore 16.5%, Horror 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Violent 9.9%

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

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 49.6% ★, Gore 25.1%, Violent 12%, Horror 7.1%, Action 3.2%

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 24.2%, Adventure 14.9%, Action 14.6%, Platformer 13.6%, Atmospheric 12.5%

Rescue hostages, disarm bombs and save the day in this old school, side-scroller action game with retro graphics and retro sensibilities. Online and Couch Coop Included.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 53.2%, Action 16.6%, 2D 15.6%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Tails of Iron is an epic RPG Adventure with punishingly brutal combat. As Redgi, heir to the throne, you must embark on a perilous quest to reclaim your Kingdom. Explore a deceivingly charming world. Assemble a band of brave companions. Banish the merciless Frog clan!

Why similar: Metroidvania 54.9%, 2D 14.5%, Adventure 9.8%, Action 8.8%, Atmospheric 4.5%

Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.4%, Horror 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Sci-fi 10.7%, 2D 7.9%

ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.

Why similar: Metroidvania 75.3%, Great Soundtrack 8.3%, 2D 5.3%, Indie 2.9%, Atmospheric 2.9%

Play as the villain in Nefarious! An action platformer where you globe hop between several kingdoms kidnapping princesses who alter gameplay in unique ways. Then thwart various heroes in reverse boss fights, recreated iconic battles where you control the boss.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 85.8% ★, Action 4.4%, Indie 3.6%, Adventure 3.3%, Platformer 3%