The Carcass

Steam News · Aug 13

hotfix 1.5

Steam News · Aug 13

hotfix 1.4

Steam News · Aug 12

hotfix 1.3

Steam News · Aug 12

Still here, still fixing

Still here. I'm one person, and this is my game. It came out this week, the reviews have been hard, and I have read all of them. This is what was wrong, what is fixed, and what I am working on now. The store page and the AI disclosure The description called the events "hand-written". That word is gone. It should never have been there, because the disclosure on the same page says the text was draft...

Steam News · Aug 8

Update 2.1.5 — Fourteen Complaints, Fourteen Answers

Update 2.1.5 — Fourteen Complaints, Fourteen Answers Two days before launch, the last big update. We went back through every criticism the game has received, put all fourteen on one page, and gave each one either a fix or a number. Your choice stays on the screen The most common complaint was also the worst one: you would make a decision and never see what it did. A queued command was firing in th...

Steam News · Aug 8

Update 2.1.4 — Five Ways Out, and the Game Shows You Where You Are

Update 2.1.4 — Five Ways Out, and the Game Shows You Where You Are A small update, 3 days before launch — three things you will notice at the terminal. The game tells you where you stand There are five ways out of the carcass — Dominion, Symbiosis, Awakening, Escape, Transcendence — and each one is now four named stages long. At any moment you can see how far along a path you are as a percentage, ...

Steam News · Aug 7

Update 2.1.3 — Every Species Now Has Its Own Campaign

Update 2.1.3 — Every Species Now Carries Its Own Campaign The largest content update the demo has ever received, 4 days before launch. 31 species · 166 scenes · 51 permanent outcomes Every canonical species in the carcass now has a multi-stage story arc — around five scenes, usually three different endings. Those endings are not flavour text. Each one leaves behind a mechanical consequence that ke...

Steam News · Aug 6

Version 2.1.2: 5 Days to Launch

Version 2.1.2: 5 Days to Launch Update: August 7, 2026 Launch: August 11, 2026 Version 2.1.2 is built around one promise: the game should say what it means, respond to what you enter, and remember why your colony reached this point. One consistent game across 29 languages This update begins with the words players actually see, type, and trust. A broad pass across 29 languages made room names, prom...

Steam News · Aug 5

Version 2.1.1: 6 Days to Launch

Version 2.1.1: 6 Days to Launch Released: August 6, 2026 Launch: August 11, 2026 Version 2.1.1 brings 114 changes. This update focuses on the first half hour, screen clarity, reliable text across 28 languages, and a smoother path into the game. The tutorial was rebuilt from beginning to end The first half hour was the main focus of this update. I played through the complete tutorial and reviewed e...

Steam News · Aug 4

Version 2.1.0: 30 Days of Work, 7 Days to Launch

Version 2.1.0: 30 Days of Work, 7 Days to Launch The Carcass: Echoes of Rot launches on August 11. Seven days remain. I moved the release date because the version people played did not explain itself clearly enough. Choices seemed to disappear, the first hour could feel like a wall of prose, and several systems hid rules the game already knew. Over the past month I focused on how the game feels to...