'Carrion' turns you into a bloodthirsty tentacle monster with a terrible sense of direction

It was around three hours into Carrion, as my oozing, formless tentacle monster munched on a hapless scientist's lower half, when I stopped, looked around, and thought: "Where the hell am I?" Carrion is an exceptionally cool idea for a video game. You play as the escaped research specimen in a heavily locked down lab. The humans who work there want you dead or contained, and you want to get out in one piece while snacking on as many people as you can in the process. Your avatar in this world is a wriggling mass of blood-red tentacles, toothy open mouths, and dark-rimmed eyes. It moves in a roiling, oozing dance, as long, spindly limbs fan out in whatever direction you choose, latching onto walls, floors, and ceilings as they pull the rest of your jumbled mass along. Those grasping tentacles whip through the air audibly, too, their "thwips" cutting through the dark orchestral score in a steady beat. Read more...More about Devolver Digital, Game Review, Entertainment, and Gaming