
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Media

About
After countless nightmares about your missing little sister, you embark on a journey with one goal: to bring her home. You play as Harley, a girl who’s going to face horrors worse than anything her nightmares could produce.
Retro-styled graphics reminiscent of the PS1 era!
Classic survival horror gameplay!
An atmospheric theme park with engaging puzzles!
Inventory and storage box management!
Fully voice acted cutscenes!
Collect (in-game) patches and outfits for achievements!
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 47 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 47 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Preciosa pequeña experiencia. Bastante mejorable en muchos aspectos pero demuestra un gran potencial por parte del equipo detras, sin dejar de ser una obra entretenida.
Review can watch on my channel, I've added ENG subs. Обзор можете посмотреть у меня на канале https://youtu.be/I8b403INKLo?si=gCNteMW0f_U-MLPo --- ENGLISH VERSION (РУССКАЯ ВЕРСИЯ НИЖЕ) I really wanted to like Carnival Massacre. Old-school fixed cameras, low-poly visuals, PS1 aesthetics — on paper this should’ve been my thing. But in reality the game gave me extremely mixed feelings. The biggest problem is the balance. This is supposed to be survival horror, yet the game constantly showers you with ammo, healing items, and overpowered weapons. You literally get a shotgun almost immediately, then a rifle, then even a silenced SMG. At no point did I feel vulnerable. The entire survival aspect just collapses. Saving is also trivialized. Enemies drop more tokens than you’ll ever need, save machines are everywhere, and dying barely matters because checkpoints are so close together. The puzzles are ridiculously simple. The notebook mechanic sounds cool on paper, but I never actually needed it for anything besides drawing ♥♥♥♥♥ in it. The atmosphere also didn’t work for me at all. The music is decent in places, and some boss fights are entertaining, but as a horror game it never managed to create tension or fear. It feels more like an arcade shooter wearing a survival horror skin. What makes this frustrating is that you can clearly see passion behind the project. A solo developer spent years making this, listened to feedback, improved the demo, and genuinely loves the genre. And because of that, I can’t call the game outright bad. But I came for survival horror — and instead got something closer to an action-heavy carnival ride with PS1 visuals. Not terrible. Not great either. Just… disappointing for what it could’ve been. --- Я очень хотел полюбить Carnival Massacre. Фиксированные камеры, low-poly графика, эстетика PS1 — на бумаге это буквально игра для меня. Но на деле впечатления вышли крайне неоднозначными. Главная проблема — баланс. Игра вроде бы пытается быть survival horror, но при этом постоянно заваливает тебя патронами, аптечками и слишком сильным оружием. Дробовик дают почти сразу, потом винтовку, потом еще и глушёный ПП. В какой-то момент чувство уязвимости просто исчезает. Весь survival-элемент разваливается. Сохранения тоже полностью обесценены. Враги сыпят жетонами, автоматов сохранения слишком много, а смерть почти ничего не значит, потому что чекпоинты находятся в двух шагах друг от друга. Загадки максимально простые. Механика блокнота звучит интересно, но по факту за всю игру он мне понадобился только чтобы рисовать в нём ♥♥♥. Атмосфера тоже не сработала. Местами музыка неплохая, некоторые боссы даже способны развлечь, но как хоррор игра вообще не давит. Не пугает. Не создаёт напряжение. Это скорее аркадный шутер, натянувший на себя маску survival horror. И самое обидное — видно, что у проекта есть душа. Один разработчик годами делал игру, слушал отзывы, улучшал демку и правда любит жанр. Поэтому назвать Carnival Massacre откровенно плохой игрой у меня язык не поворачивается. Но я пришёл сюда за survival horror — а получил скорее аттракцион с PS1-визуалом и уклоном в экшен. Не ужасно. Но и не хорошо. Скорее разочаровывающе, учитывая потенциал.
Fun classic survival horror that reminded me a lot of Alisa and Heartworm. On the shorter side but fair for the price. Had some surprisingly good tracks not all just carnival style and some fun boss battles. I think the final boss was underwhelming with it not really attacking but other than that I liked all the different enemy and boss encounters. I would definitely recommend this as a little cozy survival horror for those looking to get the fix without stressing too much.
It was okay. I really liked the music and the graphics, but there wasn't much else to the game. There was no real story. It was only like 2 hours long. There were lots of bad game decisions such as the UI. But I guess it was worth 5 bucks.
Divertido.
good game! i enjoyed the aesthetic and the bosses were pretty unique but it was very easy and the plot felt a little half-baked. still a fun way to spend an hour or two though!
Ein cooles kleines Survival - Horror game also die Story ist zwar kurz aber fühlt sich mega lange an sehr kreatives Spiel was richtig spaß gemacht hat. 100%ge Empfehlung
Related
Related
Trends
Concurrent players on Steam, sampled daily since tracking started.
Momentum
Pace estimated from the game's recent review growth (our daily snapshots) at its own sales-per-review ratio — a momentum signal, not booked sales.
Audience
Estimated from the language of this game's reviews — a proxy for where players are, not official Steam demographics.
Related
| RetroMaze | $22.4K | 1.6K | 96% | $0.99 |
| Natti | $22.4K | 116 | 61% | $7.99 |
| Toxic Marriage Punisher | $22.4K | 53 | 81% | $10.79 |
| Last Mage | $22.4K | 82 | 63% | $9.99 |
| Cricket Captain 2015 | $22.4K | 63 | 65% | $9.99 |
| SiNKR 2 | $22.4K | 260 | 95% | $3.99 |