This is a great game that is simply fun and kind of different. It's fun to be the monster that hunts humans throughout an underground facility. It's fun attacking the humans and hearing them scream as you eat them. However, this game is not a horror game. It may look like one in terms of graphic design, but it doesn't have much of a horror feel. There isn't an actual emphasis on attacking humans. They're there to simply be killed or try to kill you with a pistol--to impede your progress in gaining new abilities, getting further throughout the underground area you're in, and eventually escape.

As such, this game is fun because it's a metroidvania with a slight twist of you being the bad guy. As a monster you slither around and go through vents and whatnot to get from area to area or simply to attack people. What ultimately makes this game so much fun is the fact that it's a metroidvania. You go through a few areas you can, figure out some puzzles to get through to a new area, learn a new ability, then use said new ability to go to new areas previously unreachable. It's satisfying, it's fun, it's rewarding, it's a typical metroidvania. That is where this game's strength is as it really doesn't hold up at all as a horror title like it's being promoted as.

One huge mistake was made in this that simply must be said: there is no map for you to use to see what is where. It can seriously slow you down not knowing where to go because you can't find an area, and there are no hints. You must rely on memory. If it wasn't for that this game might have gotten 5 stars, but this is an abysmal error on the devs' part. Carrion absolutely needs a map.

Bottom line: Play it for the fact that this is a metroidvania, not for the "being a monster" or "horror" aspect that is advertised. There is no map which is a massive pain in the ass and cost this game a star from me.