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The Carcass

22% positive of 75 Steam reviews

Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by PiqFocus Interactive.

About the game

A typing-driven Lovecraftian colony sim. You wake inside the corpse of a dead god, adrift in space. Carve a roguelike colony from procedurally generated anatomy. Negotiate with rival alien factions, evolve occult mutations, find your ending. The carcass remembers.

Tagged by players

Colony Sim
Typing
Lovecraftian
Text-Based
Roguelike
Procedural Generation
Resource Management
Lore-Rich
Turn-Based Strategy
Post-apocalyptic
Choices Matter
Multiple Endings

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What players say

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The Carcass is an interesting game, though needs some polishing and severe menu reformatting. I want to break this down a bit though, as this game is pretty controversial in its AI use and disclosure early on. PROS: As a lovecraft fanatic (I've had the pleasure of reading nearly all his works) I love the atmosphere and concept. The lore aspects feel fleshed out enough to keep me interested in the game for a time.…
4 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Recommended
It has some rough spots and could use some useful player guides but overall it's pretty good. I think if you look past the ai use, this is a sort of complex game that could use a bit more work to finish it up. I think that's pretty fair, sort of like the ai-centric bad reviews will be doing in a few years anyways as the electoral process works out and the money to help people think stops flowing after this next…
2.7 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
The AI disclosure was added after I had already purchased, but you can feel it immediately. There's a tangible lack of soul to the writing and you can sense the gaps in the introduction where an AI was asked to fill in for the writer's lack of ideas. I saw the premise and the ASCII interface and assumed without doing more thorough research that a game this seemingly niche must be a passion project from a dev who…
19 min played when written. 296 found it helpful.
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