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...
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 27.57/day in the week to Jul 26 → 36.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
From the creator of Pony Island and The Hex comes the latest mind-melting, self-destructing love letter to video games. 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 inscribed upon the cards...
Acquire a deck of woodland creature cards by draft, surgery, and self mutilation
Unlock the secrets lurking behind the walls of Leshy's cabin
Embark on an unexpected and deeply disturbing odyssey
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 148.6Kreviews | 97% | — | $58.5M |
| $19.99 | 13Kratings | 94% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
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Reviews
After reading rave reviews and being on sale for $8, I decided to give Inscryption a try. I am glad that I did. What on the surface seems to be a pretty simple card game is anything but. The progression through the different acts really keeps it fresh. It is challenging enough to where you really have to develop solid strategies, but not so challenging that it becomes frustrating. There is a story that is told in the game, but honestly it's the gameplay and mechanics that really make this a great game.
Inscryption draws you in with unique, dark aesthetics and a running mystery, and it's true that for the first 3 or 4 hours of the game it's a great experience. But after solving a few mysteries and making it to act 2 and 3, the game's cringey live-action story elements, poor implementation of new card-game gimmicks, and overall monotony makes for a disappointing experience that leaves you wondering what the game could have been if it had fully committed to the act 1 ambience. I am an avid card-game player both in real life and online, and Inscryption's deckbuilding and gameplay can't help but feel shallow to me, with simplistic turn-by-turn plays, easy cheeses of huge statlines, and items which seem to trivialize the game. Even worse, when you complete runs, the game actually gives you more powerful cards to work with, rather than increasing the difficulty like you would expect. I tried the post-game challenges as well and I still couldn't help feeling bored, but maybe that's just me. If you enjoy the artstyle in the trailers and can pick it up for less than $10, I would do so and avoid continuing after the end of act 1. But if you're someone experienced in card-game rougelikes, or expect a lot from the story, you ought to save yourself the $20 and the time.
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Stats
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
| $19.99 |
| 5.2Kratings |
| 92% |
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| $7.99−60% | 559ratings | 92% | — | not modelled |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 2.3K reviews with recorded playtime.
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Act 1 was perfect. I just wish the entire game had kept the same visual style and atmosphere. Act 2 is a huge letdown .The 2D pixel art feels much less engaging, and the puzzles suddenly become frustratingly difficult. I ended up looking up YouTube walkthroughs just to get past the parts where I got stuck, but it felt like Act 2 never ended. It's a shame, because the game had such a strong start and so much potential. I was really enjoying it at the beginning, but the shift in style and pacing completely completely turned me off
best card game i ever see; the perfect card game with the story. you never see a card game with story better than «Inscryption». I recommend this game to everyone—even those who aren't typically into card games—if you want to experience and learn its story. It has the potential to capture the interest of people who usually don't care for card games.
So much more than I expected from this game
PARA DE LER ANÁLISE DESSE JOGO - COMPRA LOGO E VAI JOGAR.. quanto menos você souber MELHOR!!
ゲームをしよう。 賭けるのは命だ。 InscryptionはＫＰと対戦カードゲームをするゲームです。 貴方はゲームをするんだ。山札は二つ、贄と獣、贄を犠牲に獣を使って戦うんだ。 獣には種族があるぞ、攻撃力と体力があるんだ。楽しそうだろう？そうだろう？ なぁ、そっちにはなにもない！こっちに座って、ゲームをしよう。たのしいたのしいデスゲームだ！ ねぇ、ない！これはただのカードゲームだ！これはただの古いカードゲームなんだ！ ゲームをしよう。 きみは、なにもしらなくていい。
The game changes so majorly after Act 1 that I completely lost interest. The setting, atmosphere, art style, mechanics, and mystery/intrigue of the cabin really hooked me, and it would've been wonderful if the game was a continuation or expansion of that. Normally I hate roguelike elements, but I was so hooked I wanted to keep going. And then it's all gone. While I can appreciate a nice meta-narrative, they tend to tow the line between being mind blowing or pretentious, and Inscryption fell into the latter. It tries to be 3 different games in one, rather than stick to anything it builds up. I'm so disappointed, this was shaping up to be one of the best games I've played in a long time.
Una obra maestra meta, pero que no olvida crear un juego increíblemente divertido y bien hecho. Daniel Mullins hace juegos para mí, y me alegro mucho de que así sea.
I started the game expecting it to be like the trailer but through playing it it changed quite a bit. I get that it's a card/puzzle game but when they introduced all those card mechanics after act 1, there wasn't really any explanation, only trial and error was the way to figure it out. I find the gameplay to be frustating, it punishes you serverly for a minor misplay. Would not reccomend.
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