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 27%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Violent 11.4%, Action 7.3%, Sci-fi 6%

Why You'll Like It: Like CARRION, it puts you in control of a small but deadly nonhuman organism in a 2D sci-fi facility, using mobility and host interaction to survive and push deeper.

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 42% ★, Lovecraftian 15.1%, Gore 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Horror 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Another reverse-horror game where you are the eldritch threat, terrorizing humans with a monstrous toolkit instead of surviving them.

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 44.8%, Horror 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This metroidvania stars an alien parasite that steals powers from the dead, closely matching CARRION's grotesque growth and ability-driven exploration.

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 41.9% ★, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Gore 12.6%, Horror 9.3%, Blood 6.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is reverse horror from the monster side, turning humans into a spreading massacre with gleeful pixel-art brutality.

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 61.6% ★, Gore 19.9%, Violent 12.1%, Action 2.6%, Adventure 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same evolving-apex-predator itch, letting you grow stronger while hunting humans who increasingly fear you.

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

Why similar: Gore 32%, Blood 30.2% ★, Violent 21.3%, Action 5%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its breakout structure, animal-perspective carnage, and improvisational facility slaughter capture CARRION's escape-fantasy energy even without the metroidvania layer.

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 35.2%, Pixel Graphics 21.7%, Physics 8.6%, 2D 7.1%, Platformer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: While less power-fantasy driven, its expressive creature movement and ecosystem-based survival strongly appeal to players who loved controlling something inhuman.

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

Why similar: Gore 39.1%, Horror 16.6%, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Violent 11.4%, Puzzle 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into atmosphere and puzzles, but the biomechanical body horror and fleshy imagery hit a very similar sensory note.

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 57.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Great Soundtrack 4.9%, Sci-fi 4.4%, Platformer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares CARRION's alien-science-lab atmosphere and nonlinear 2D exploration, with a similarly unsettling biomechanical tone.

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 68.8%, Platformer 8.1%, Action 7.2%, Adventure 5.1%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its body-horror aesthetics and ability absorption deliver a similarly grotesque, predatory take on metroidvania progression.

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 32.6% ★, Gore 28.5%, Violent 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Action 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: If what you want most is CARRION's fast 2D ultraviolence and red-splashed pixel carnage, this is a strong stripped-down match.

A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 54.4%, Sci-fi 25.9%, Action 19.8%

Why You'll Like It: Playing as a body-stealing organism that hijacks and kills humans gives it a similar predatory, villain-led feel to CARRION.

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

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 64.7% ★, Gore 18.4%, Violent 11.5%, Action 2.6%, Adventure 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: You are the infectious monster causing the outbreak, building momentum as terrified humans try and fail to stop you.

Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.

Why similar: Gore 33.6%, Horror 20%, Blood 20% ★, Action 11%, Sci-fi 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: The Alien campaign delivers the same thrill of stalking humans through industrial spaces as an agile biological nightmare.

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 33.7%, Gore 19.1%, Blood 11.4% ★, Pixel Graphics 11%, Violent 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is not reverse horror, but its grotesque pixel art, heavy violence, and oppressive exploration fit the same taste for nasty 2D worlds.

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 65.6%, Action 9%, 2D 8.2%, Platformer 8.2%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Absorbing enemy forms for traversal and combat makes its metroidvania progression feel close to CARRION's grow-through-what-you-kill loop.

Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 54% ★, Gore 19%, Indie 12.9%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Great Soundtrack 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its whole premise is reverse horror in a human facility, with you ambushing workers as the alien menace instead of escaping them.

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 23.1%, Blood 19.7% ★, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Violent 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The stealthy room-by-room slaughter and efficient predatory pacing feel adjacent to CARRION's hunt-and-kill rhythm.

Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.2%, Gore 18.6%, Blood 15% ★, Violent 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark, bloody metroidvania structure is a good fit if you mainly want more exploration, monstrosity, and gore.

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 17.7%, Metroidvania 16.6%, Action 14.4%, Horror 12%, Indie 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its hostile, creature-heavy 2D action captures the same oppressive tension and lethal pacing, just from a more fragile perspective.

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 41.5% ★, Metroidvania 18%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Action 7.4%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its monster-against-the-heroes perspective and aggressive 2D combat make it a lighter but still thematically aligned pick.

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 33%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Violent 12.1%, Action 8.5%, Metroidvania 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Another gory sci-fi side-scroller with crunchy combat and a grim industrial aesthetic that overlaps nicely with CARRION's vibe.

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 70.6% ★, Gore 11.3%, Action 5.9%, Violent 4.2%, Adventure 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like CARRION, it lets you play the invading threat and weaponize human panic for darkly comic destruction.

On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.

Why similar: Metroidvania 48.6%, Horror 11.6%, Sci-fi 8.6%, 2D 6.4%, Action 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This lonely, oppressive sci-fi metroidvania channels the same bleak exploration and organic-industrial mood that makes CARRION memorable.

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 28.1%, Physics 19.8%, Action 15%, Platformer 12.6%, Adventure 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Controlling a sticky black blob in 2D is one of the closest matches to CARRION's tactile, amorphous movement, even if the tone is less horrific.

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 66.4% ★, Blood 17.4% ★, Physics 6.9%, Sci-fi 2.6%, 2D 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Playing the rampaging monster and maximizing human panic captures CARRION's gleeful villain energy, even in a more arcade style.

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 61.6%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Action 11%, Platformer 7.5%, Great Soundtrack 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi metroidvania also revolves around infiltrating facilities and taking over bodies, echoing CARRION's possession-adjacent power fantasy.

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: Blood 19.9% ★, Gore 18%, Horror 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Violent 10.4%

Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 83.5% ★, Puzzle 5.5%, 2D 3.5%, Action 3.3%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It turns a human complex into a reverse-horror playground where your goal is to spread infection and overwhelm survivors.

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 53.8%, Action 14.7%, Horror 11.5%, Indie 9.4%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its grotesque 2D slaughter and relentless momentum make it a decent pick for players who loved CARRION chiefly for the viscera.

Kill. Eat. Evolve. METAL! \m/

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 56.7% ★, Gore 16.2%, Violent 9%, Lovecraftian 6.5%, Horror 3.7%

A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 77% ★, Pixel Graphics 13%, Indie 4.7%, Action 3.3%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: Although more strategic than action-focused, it is still all about orchestrating a satisfying monster-led outbreak from the humans' point of view.

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 43.5% ★, Gore 28.7%, Violent 16.8%, Mature 3.7%, Action 2.9%

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 32.7%, Physics 21.6%, 2D 10.2%, Puzzle 10%, Platformer 8.7%

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 51.5% ★, Gore 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Violent 11.2%, Great Soundtrack 2.7%

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 40.5%, Physics 28.8%, 2D 11.8%, Action 10%, Indie 8.8%

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 29.1%, Violent 20%, Blood 18.8% ★, Action 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 6.3%

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 26.1%, Gore 21.4%, Violent 16.3%, Great Soundtrack 9.3%, Action 7.7%

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 58.3% ★, Gore 15.2%, Horror 11.9%, Violent 3.5%, Puzzle 2.7%

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 24.1%, Horror 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Puzzle 10.5%, Mature 7.7%

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 12.3%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Action 11.1%

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 49.9%, Violent 30.1%, Action 7.9%, Indie 6.6%, Adventure 5.5%

WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 86.7%, Indie 13.3%

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 28.9%, Gore 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Horror 9.6%, Violent 9.4%

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

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 49.6% ★, Gore 21.6%, Violent 11.7%, Horror 7.3%, Mature 4.7%

It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 42.5% ★, Violent 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Gore 11.4%, Action 4.3%

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 35.2% ★, Gore 24.5%, Violent 14.8%, Blood 9.9% ★, Horror 5%

Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Why similar: Indie 51%, Singleplayer 23%, 2D 18%, Atmospheric 8%

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

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 83.9% ★, Puzzle 4.6%, Physics 4%, Indie 2.7%, Action 2%

The Executioner puts you in the shoes of a man who tortures people for a living while trying to retain his own sanity. In this game the monster isn’t lurking behind you. You are the monster, if you choose to become one.

Why similar: Gore 37%, Violent 22.6%, Horror 12.4%, Indie 5.8%, Mature 4.1%

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.5%, Gore 14.7%, Horror 14%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Violent 10.2%

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 48.4% ★, Gore 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, Horror 6.6%, Violent 5.8%

ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 51.3% ★, Gore 12.4%, Blood 11.1% ★, Violent 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%

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 49.8%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Puzzle 18.1%, 2D 7.8%, Adventure 4%

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: Blood 40.5% ★, Horror 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Sci-fi 6.6%, 2D 4.3%

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

Why similar: Gore 41.2%, Lovecraftian 16.2%, Violent 15.8%, Action 8.1%, Indie 6.2%

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 29.4%, Gore 24.4%, Violent 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Blood 7.1% ★

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 51.6%, Lovecraftian 21.2%, Action 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 6%, Indie 5.9%

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%, Action 16%, Indie 12.8%, Singleplayer 7.4%

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 52.7%, Action 16.4%, 2D 15.9%, Indie 9.6%, Singleplayer 5.4%