Inscryption

Dark deckbuilding roguelike mixing card battles, cabin puzzles, and horror

Daniel Mullins Games · Published by Devolver Digital · Released Oct 19, 2021

Adventure Indie Strategy

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 97% of 149K
Recent reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 95% of 707 in 30 days
Playing now: 708; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 4 years ago; Mar 17, 2022

Free demo available, 2 playing it now: get the demo.

Metacritic: 85/100 (critic reviews)

What is Inscryption?

A single-player deckbuilding roguelike and psychological horror game set in Leshy's cabin. During card-battle runs, you draft and modify a deck of woodland creatures, then solve escape-room-style puzzles to uncover the cabin's secrets.

For you if...

+you like deckbuilding runs mixed with escape-room puzzles
+you prefer dark, surreal psychological horror stories
+you enjoy games that change structure and style

Not for you if...

−you expect the opening roguelike format to remain unchanged
−you dislike story-heavy games with meta-narrative elements
−you want multiplayer card battles

What players say

97% of 148,693 reviews are positive · 95% of 707 in the last 30 days

Players most often praise the opening cabin section's eerie atmosphere, deckbuilding, puzzles, and structural surprises. The most common complaint is that later acts change the visual style, mood, and card-game format; some players also find the meta-narrative and ending disappointing.

Screenshots and trailer

Inscryption system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

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

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements: 40
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Playable

Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Text only: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Turkish.