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Lost in Carrion? This map might help

Alien fleshbeasts are really good at flinging, creeping, bashing, and gnawing on the bones of hapless scientists. But as the formless biological horror in Carrion, it's easy to realise that The Thing doesn't have a great sense of direction - or an in-game map. It's easy to get lost in Carrion's caverns. What's a tentacled meat monster to do?

One option is to use this handy map created by two Carrion fans working in collaboration. The first step was to map out the game, and that was accomplished by YouTuber Demajen. Demajen specialises in videogame map making, and while he enjoyed finding his way around in Carrion, he noticed that plenty of players posting on the Steam forums did not. Setting Carrion to run at 720p, Demajen used console commands to view Carrion in its "pristine" state. He then took screenshots of each room in the game, and then carefully pieced them together in Photoshop.

That generated a massive, 462 megabyte file, which Redditor MrDrWho used to create an Adobe Acrobat file. This let MrDrWho link up the passageways that allow the Carrion monster to travel between areas in the indie game quickly, and the PDF file will zip you from one end of a tunnel to the other at the click of a mouse.

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Carrion review scores - our roundup of the critics

John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the best horror movies ever made, and a big part of that is down to the gruesome creature effects created by make-up effects artist Rob Bottin. The alien menace in The Thing could enter any living organism, but would sprout hideous tentacles and rip the host body to shreds when confronted. The idea behind Carrion, the new platformer from Phobia Game Studio, is that being the Thing sounds like a lot of fun.

As it turns out, it is. In Carrion, you take control of a shapeless alien mass composed mainly of dripping tentacles and razor-sharp teeth, and it's your job to evolve and escape the underground facility you're held captive within. Using an expanding set of abilities, you'll crawl along ceilings and air ducts, ripping doors off their hinges and leaping out of pools of water to surprise terrified scientists.

With a Metacritic score of 77 and a 79 from OpenCritic, Carrion is sitting atop a pile of reasonably strong reviews. Eurogamer has given it the 'Recommended' classification, saying "Carrion is solidly wrought, and the monster is revolting enough to keep you locked-on when the puzzles threaten to bore." In its unscored review, Polygon calls the game a "body horror masterpiece" and says "Carrion's tone strikes a chord between horror and gruesome slapstick."

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Destroy, consume, spread and stop at nothing - CARRION is out now

CARRION from Phobia Game Studio and Devolver Digital sees you turn into an almost unstoppable force and you're so very hungry for tasty Human flesh.