The Carcass

The Carcass is a strategy game set inside a dead god, whose corpse forms a world of rotting organs, bone corridors and forgotten chambers. You harvest resources, build across its anatomy and lead a settlement of citizens whose traits, skills and scars persist beyond their lives.

The carcass

You gather biomass, calcium, bile and neurons from the surrounding flesh. Organs provide resources, while bones form walls; digging deeper yields more and stirs the carcass’s memories. You build chambers, forges and altars across the body.

Lead your settlement

Your citizens can rise as leaders, form factions and clash. You manage morale and decide who eats and who is eaten. Research branches into combat, production, diplomacy and forbidden arts, unlocking occult mutations such as bone armor, mind-link, parasite resistance and the ability to digest gods.

Fight in the marrow

You send warriors into the marrow to battle parasites and defend chambers from creatures that wake while you sleep. Permadeath applies, but the carcass remembers every warrior you send into it.

Choices and endings

Story-rich events draw on cosmic horror lore: a stranger may ask for shelter, an organ may pulse with stolen memory, or a voice in the wall may offer a deal. Your choices affect factions, futures and endings, and carry forward into New Game Plus alongside your victories. The game has five main endings—Dominion, Symbiosis, Awakening, Escape and Transcendence—and four more hidden behind cryptic choices. Each ending calls for a different strategy and changes how the god remembers you.

Difficulty and interface

The game has five difficulty levels, from Merciful to Extinction, as well as a permadeath Ironman mode. It uses retro terminal ASCII visuals with CRT effects and supports customizable terminal settings and keyboard-only input.