Inscryption

Daniel Mullins Games · Devolver Digital

Released Oct 19, 2021 · Windows, macOS, Linux · Adventure, Indie, Strategy · Metacritic 85

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...

5 elements · 4 screen types covered · Steam page

Inscryption - The sacrifice, mid-ritual: a Squirrel under the dagger loop pays for the Wolf

Inscryption - The same game, flattened: Act 2's pixel battle and the Gravedigger panel

Inscryption - The map is a wooden diorama: dashed trails and inked nodes in a carved forest

Inscryption - The altar stones: a Sparrow laid flat so its sigil can be taken

Inscryption - The rulebook, open at Worthy Sacrifice: appendix, subsection, three drops of blood

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The sacrifice, mid-ritual: a Squirrel under the dagger loop pays for the Wolf · HUD & Gameplay UI

UI at a glance: the patterns that recur across this game's screens are card grid (2), diegetic controls (2), detail card (2).

HUD & Gameplay UI

Campaign / World Map

Character / Unit Detail

Encyclopedia / Codex

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