Carrion: Nintendo Switch Game Review

Developer: Phobia Game Studios

Publisher: Devolver Digital

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Slither, slather and slaughter.

Phobia Game Studio’s delightful Carrion allows you to love the alien as you take control of an amorphous blob, hellbent on causing chaos in an underground lair.

Initially miniscule and able to slime your way around the caverns, Carrion grants you the chance to channel all your rage in what developers say is a reverse-horror.

As you cling to the walls, humans try and stop you - but using tendrils and your slimy nefarious desires, you can devour them.

Doing so and consuming them gifts you extra girth (though it does make you more of a target later on as the fight back takes shape.)

Through a series of environmental puzzles and access to minor upgrades to your eco-skeleton, Carrion grants you the chance to deliver carnage how you want.

See a human that looks troublesome? Flick a web and pin them to the wall before devouring them.

Graphically, Carrion is basic at best, looking more pixelated than crystal clear.

But given how fluid your beastie is that barely matters. 

Movement is clear and defined, but equally messy the bigger you get. Bits of you hang from the walls and Carrion grants you the feeling of the extra terrestrial and gifts you the gore.

It may lack a map, but thinking of it from the alien’s perspective as it slithers in places unknown, the world is fit for exploring and finding things anew.

The more Carrion carries on, the bolder you get - luring victims to death and ambushing them are just bonuses. The simplicity is the key to Carrion's success - games don't need to be complicated, and this one keeps to its MO and delivers it more than effectively.

All in all, Carrion may be brief, but this beastly brevity is a blast.

Keep calm and Carrion, indeed.

A review key for Carrion was provided by the publisher for the purpose of this review.