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Carnival Massacre
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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“One of the better short retro-inspired indie horror games I've played. The story wasn't anything special, but the atmosphere, area design, and fixed camera scares were appreciated. There's obvious references to Silent Hill 3 and the off-screen scissor sounds brought back…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“It's a short and easy survival horror, I had fun but there are a lot of problems that weigh it down. I don't want to give this game a negative review, but they are some pretty big flaws. -Unskippable cutscenes. In a speedrun it feels like half of the run is watching cutscenes…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“While it pains me to not recommend this game as I had my fun with it, I cannot help but conclude that it's an extremely unpolished final product inferior to the demo version. If you play it to scratch some mindless retrogaming itch it's perfect, but the truth is, this is some…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Ver 1.5 fix - Dolly camera broken at start.
It would be me if it hadn't happened right at the very start. Sorry :/
Update: ver 1.5 - 5 month report!
Hey Everyone! Carnival Massacre is officially 5 months old, wanted to make a report of how things are going regarding the game and the studio. Over the last few months I've been working on both Carniv
DEAD AWAKE ANNOUNCEMENT!
It’s called Dead Awake. Originally, I planned to make something completely different, irrelevant to the survival horror genre, but this community has honestly grown on me a lot over the past few month
Update: version 1.3
-Players can no longer get stuck next to the bookshelf puzzle wagon. -Players can no longer go out of bounds at the intro. -Players can no longer go out of bounds at the ferris wheel. -Fixed some rank
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Survival Horror · Horror · Retro · Action · Inventory Management · Female Protagonist · Adventure · Atmospheric · Exploration · Old School · Resource Management · Puzzle (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 9 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or better Processor: Any Dual Core CPU or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Any DX10 compatible graphics card or better Storage: 500 MB available space