About This Demo

You awaken in the depths of space, inside the rotting body of a godlike creature. Darkness surrounds you, decaying tissues stretch endlessly, and only your survival instinct remains. The Carcass: Echoes of Rot challenges you to build a colony and ensure your species survives within the corpse of a dead cosmic being.

Designed with retro terminal aesthetics and ASCII art style, this game combines the unforgiving nature of classic roguelikes with deep RPG systems and procedural storytelling.

A Different Story Every Time

No two playthroughs are the same. Procedurally generated events, encounters, and crises create unique narratives each run. The carcass shifts and changes - new threats emerge from rotting organs, ancient parasites awaken, and forgotten chambers reveal themselves when you least expect it.

Deep RPG Systems

Your colony is more than numbers. Each citizen has traits, skills, and personalities that affect gameplay. Leaders rise from your population with unique abilities. Factions within your colony may agree or clash. Every decision ripples through your society, shaping relationships, morale, and ultimately your survival.

Meaningful Choices with Lasting Consequences

Events present branching paths with real impact. Help a dying stranger and gain a loyal ally - or a hidden traitor. Harvest a mysterious organ for resources or study it for forbidden knowledge. Your choices echo through the entire playthrough, unlocking or blocking future possibilities.

Complex Diplomacy

Multiple species inhabit the carcass, each with their own goals, cultures, and histories. Build trust through quests and trade, forge blood pacts, or wage wars of extinction. Reputation systems track your actions - betray one faction and others will remember.

Manage Your Resources

Biomass, calcium, bile, and neurons - harvest everything the carcass offers and grow your colony. Feed your population, maintain morale, and make difficult decisions. Sometimes saving one means sacrificing another.

Pulse-Based Turn System

Each pulse brings new dangers and opportunities. Random events confront you with unexpected choices. The consequences of your decisions shape the fate of your colony.

Research and Evolution

Extensive technology tree with multiple branches. Specialize your colony in combat, production, diplomacy, or forbidden arts. Unlock mutations that permanently alter your species. The deeper you research, the more you understand the true nature of the carcass - and the more it understands you.

Five Paths to Victory

Dominion, Symbiosis, Awakening, Escape, or Transcendence - each requires a different strategy and playstyle. Plus, four secret endings hidden behind obscure requirements and cryptic choices.

Challenging But Fair

Choose from five difficulty levels. Learn on Merciful, master on Extinction. Experience true roguelike gameplay with Ironman mode - single save file, auto-save each turn, progress deleted on death.

New Game Plus

Every victory makes you stronger. Carry over bonuses, unlock new starting options, and discover content only available to those who have escaped the carcass before.

Features

- Procedurally generated events, encounters, and narratives

- Deep RPG systems with citizen traits and colony factions

- Branching storylines with meaningful consequences

- Complex diplomacy with multiple unique species

- Extensive tech tree with mutation paths

- 105 achievements and comprehensive statistics tracking

- Multiple victory conditions and secret endings

- Ironman mode and New Game Plus support

- Dark cosmic horror atmosphere

- Classic roguelike depth in terminal-based ASCII style

The carcass remembers every choice. The echoes of rot await you