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I step away from the board and turn to find a rulebook sitting on the table, which acts as a glossary that explains every card’s abilities. It mentions a safe combination appearing in a book. Early on, I receive a Stoat card, which begins talking to me through the paper. The more you chip away at the roguelike, the more clues and items you get that’ll help you solve the room. It’s filled with interactive objects like a safe and a cuckoo clock. The entire game takes place in a small room that players can walk around. It’s the game’s escape room mechanic that really makes it something special, though. The game is filled with deeply weird, disturbing moments like that - which constantly make me want to dig deeper.

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Luckily, bosses will offer players a drawer full of replacement eyeballs after they’ve been defeated. The side effect is that it, naturally, darkens and blurs their vision. One item lets players stab their eye out and drop it on the scale to gain five points. Blood and bones replace mana as the currency used to play a card. Inscryption features an unsettling atmosphere, turning it into an eerie experience that always surprises. I’ve only begun to describe the myriad of tools at players disposal.Īll of those ideas are drenched in a layer of horror. It’s an easy to understand card game system with a deceptive amount of depth. Put together a successful deck, beat the bosses, and win the run. The game master will play their own cards, too, so players will have to make smart moves to counter incoming attacks and win.Įach area culminates in a boss battle with special mechanics (the first boss is a prospector who can turn your creatures into gold piles).

The goal is to tip a scale on a table by dealing a certain amount of damage to your opponent using creatures.

Other spaces trigger battles, which happen on a 4×3 grid. Some board spaces allow players to add more creatures to their deck, strengthen stats, grab useful items that can be used during play, and more. Their opponent is a mysterious shadowy figure who sits across from them and acts as a sort of dungeon master controlling the adventure. Players are dropped onto a board with a few cards. At its core, Inscryption isn’t too hard to grasp. Oh, and all of that is happening in the middle of a meta escape room that players can solve in between rounds.Īnd did I mention that you need to make blood sacrifices to summon cards? Welcome to the creepshow

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It’s also a roguelike, similar to Slay the Spire, where players have to complete a series of battles in one successful run. It’s a card game where players assemble a deck of woodland creatures, each with their own cost, abilities, attack power, and health total. It’s a new game from Daniel Mullins Games, the developer behind cult indie hit Pony Island, that smashes quite a few genres together. Inscryption, on the other hand, is a full-on creepshow.