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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
Lovecraftian
Typing
Text-Based
Procedural Generation
Roguelike
Turn-Based Strategy
Post-apocalyptic
Lore-Rich
Resource Management
Horror
Choices Matter

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Very Negative

What players say

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. 303 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
"It wasn't just not handwritten, it was blatantly AI-written. Not only was it unaltered LLM slop, but it REMEMBERED being unaltered LLM slop." Allow me to quote the store page directly: "Story-rich, **hand-written** Lovecraftian events drawn from deep cosmic horror lore. A stranger comes asking for shelter. An organ pulses with stolen memory. The voice in the wall offers a deal. Every choice echoes through factions,…
10 min played when written. 196 found it helpful.
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