Be the oozing flesh-monster (and eviscerate humans) in "reversed-horror game" Carrion

Video games, some say, are all about wish fulfilment. And if you've ever wished to be a giant, oozing blob of flesh and tendrils, well, boy, do I have the game for you: say hello to developer Phobia Game Studio's Carrion, in which the monster is you.

Carrion is the follow-up to Phobia's Butcher, which was a tough, gory, side-scrolling shooter that cast you as a cyborg intent on wiping out the last remnants of humanity. Carrion has equal disregard for mankind; this time, in a reversal of Alien and the like, you're a rampaging flesh beast, loose among labyrinthine innards of a shadowy industrial complex.

In Carrion, you'll go face-to-feeler with an assortment of heavily armed humans, all very much eager to stop you chewing off their squidgy bits, and wrenching off their limbs.

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