Inscryption

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Inscryption is a card battler, card game and story rich game developed by Daniel Mullins Games and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on October 19th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 12 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 126,580 reviews of which 122,673 were positive and 3,907 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.6 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Inscryption into these genres:

Card Battler Card Game Story Rich Deckbuilding Horror Dark Puzzle Strategy Rogue-lite Rogue-like Psychological Surreal Experimental First-Person Point & Click 3D 2D Pixel Graphics FMV Adventure

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core i5-760 (4 * 2800); AMD Athlon II X4 645 AM3 (4 * 3100)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 550 Ti (3072 VRAM); Radeon HD 6850 (1024 VRAM)
Storage: 3 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.13 or later
Processor: Intel Core i5-5350U (2 * 1800) or equivalent; Intel Core i5-2400S (4 * 2500) or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 6000 or equivalent; Radeon HD 6750M (512 VRAM) or equivalent
Storage: 3 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 18.04+
Processor: Intel Core i5-760 (4 * 2800); AMD Athlon II X4 645 AM3 (4 * 3100)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 550 Ti (3072 VRAM); Radeon HD 6850 (1024 VRAM)
Storage: 3 GB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Dude, Inscryption is wild. It starts off as this creepy card game, and you’re like, "Okay, I know what this is." But then it flips the script and turns into something completely unexpected. The atmosphere is super unsettling—like you’re stuck in this cabin with this weird, shadowy guy who’s watching your every move. The gameplay itself is genius: it’s simple to pick up, but there’s so much depth in how you build your deck and strategize. And just when you think you’ve figured it out? Boom—there’s a twist, and it’s like a whole new game. I don’t wanna spoil anything, but it messes with your head in the best way. If you’re into card games with a dark vibe and a story that keeps surprising you, this is it. You’ll be hooked, trust me.

Dec. 2024

This game has geniuely changed my entire thought process on life, how I talk to people, and how to make friends. It's unlocked this new childlike wonder that I haven't experienced in years, and it's still the greatest feeling I've ever felt. This isn't a joke comment, it's a love letter to Daniel's games. I love your games, I love your stories, and I love your ARG games. Never stop making people smile mate. -Warden

Aug. 2024

Stage One: Regular Dread Stage Two: Confusion Stage Three: Existential Dread Stage Kaycee's Mod: Weirdly comforting and fun 10/10 highly recommend. No but actually, it's an excellent game that you should really go into blind. The pacing in some parts is slow, especially if you're not a big fan of the new mechanics introduced after the first act, but it's a pretty short experience, exceptionally well-done, and the challenge mode you get at the end is everything I ever wanted when I was playing the story, so I can't not recommend it to people. I'm honestly amazed by the sheer artistry that went into this. It's like fine art or something, you know? A painting so big and beautiful it just makes you wonder at how much went into making it, how many years of training and hours of portraiture. It's like that. Don't spoil it for yourself, trust the process, and pity the squirrels. Worth it without a sale.

July 2024

This is an amazing card game, very fun and addictive. There are a lot of strategy and RNG elements in deck building and it takes a while to understand varies game mechanisms. As RNG might not always work in your favour, to understand the game's save system and limited save scumming is important for the success runs, especially in the last chapter. The story line is a bit unique and unexpected. First run takes about 35 hours for all contents. Achievements in the game are well designed. Some of them are quite challenging. While the game runs perfectly on steam deck, there's one achievement that is much easier to get on PC instead. Unfortunately there're some issues for cloud saves transfer between steam deck default version and PC version. The solution is to use an earlier version of proton (proton 7. something) while playing on steam deck, for saving on the same cloud save slot as PC version.

March 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful (so unique but sorta niche) ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely (got very sad at the end) :(( ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long (11 hours bc i am trash) ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying. ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

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