The 15 Best Games Like Carrion, Ranked

Acid Nerve made and Devolver Digital published Death's Door. They released it in 2021. A crow reaper collects souls in a mysterious, atmospheric world. The game mixes exploration, quick combat, and puzzle-solving.

Butcher is a fast-paced 2D shooter, a blood-soaked nod to the early 90s. A cyborg programmed to wipe out humanity's last remnants, your job is to annihilate anything moving. Grab your weapon—chainsaw, shotgun, grenade launcher—and kill through underground hideouts, post-apocalyptic cities, jungles, and more. Use hooks, lava pits, or saws to end enemies' misery; no death feels the same.

A demon army attacks his village. A young ninja enters a cursed world to deliver a scroll vital to his clan's survival. The Messenger starts as an 8-bit action platformer with a simple story. This story builds into an epic time-travel tale, becoming a 16-bit Metroidvania game with replay value and deadpan humor.

Crawl is a local multiplayer dungeon crawler. Friends control the monsters. It mixes bullet-hell beat-em-up with old-school RPG. This arcade party-game supports up to four players. One player acts as the hero, exploring a random dungeon filled with traps and monsters. Other players control everything. If you kill the hero, you take their spot. Your turn to crawl begins. Then, race to gather enough XP and loot for the final battle. All players collectively control the giant final boss.

Downwell follows a young man with guns for boots down a well seeking hidden treasures. Venture deeper into darkness filled with nasty creatures and secrets. Collect spectacular red gems scattered on rocks. Enter a strange shop for items or level up between caverns to fight dwelling monsters and find hidden caves with riches and relics. Every trip down the well offers a new experience.

Hiroki, a young swordsman, vows to his dying Master to guard his town and loved ones from all threats. Tragedy binds him to duty. The lone samurai must travel beyond life and death to face himself and choose his future path.

California, 1986. Friends live their summer after finding something strange in the woods near their quiet town. Uncovering an artifact with unclear powers lets these kids break nature's rules, crossing life and death. Their curiosity sparks events involving a government plot and a mysterious U.S. Army general with his dark plans. Crossing Souls is an action-adventure game about neighborhood buddies.

Blasphemous is a punishing action-platformer. It mixes fast, skilled hack-n-slash combat with a deep, dark story. Explore this nightmare world of twisted religion and find its hidden secrets. Use brutal combos and execution to smash grotesque monsters and massive bosses ready to tear you apart. Find relics, rosary beads, and prayers calling heaven's power to help you break damnation.

Faith is a pixel horror game, inspired by MS-DOS, Apple II, Atari, and ZX Spectrum classics. Forget neon. The 1980s were scary. No Internet meant you stayed home. The U.S. feared devil-worshiping, witchcraft, and occult practices due to the 'Satanic Scare'.

Ruiner is a top-down action shooter. It draws from cult cyberpunk anime and game classics. Ruiner features quick, brutal yet smart gameplay, an original world, a mature story, and a unique visual style.

Hellpoint is a dark sci-fi action RPG. It takes place after a huge quantum cataclysm. Living beings lost their minds as memories and bodies merged with alternate selves from parallel universes. The accident also pulled powerful entities from other dimensions.

Disco Elysium is a role-playing game from ZA/UM. Set in Revachol, players act as an amnesiac detective investigating a murder. The game stresses dialogue and skill choices. Character attributes show up as internal voices guiding decisions. Its story covers politics, philosophy, and identity. It uses strange gameplay and deep storytelling.

Be the Zombie. Kick A** and Take Brains. It is 1959. Punchbowl, PA, is a place of progress. Show the living that law cannot stop a dead man on a mission!

Nomada Studio developed Gris, a 2D platformer published by Devolver Digital. Gris follows a young woman through a world of grief and loss. The game uses hand-painted art, music, and environmental stories instead of dialogue to show its themes. Gameplay includes exploring, light platforming, and solving puzzles; Gris gains new abilities as the story moves forward. Critics praised Gris's artistic design and emotional depth.

The evil Director turned you into a green puddle of slime. Use your skills to ooze across levels, drown enemies in green sludge, and gather genetic pieces to become human again and save the world.