Inscryption

Overview

Inscryption is a 2021 roguelike deck-building game developed by Daniel Mullins Games and published by Devolver Digital. Directed by Daniel Mullins, it was originally released for Windows on October 19, 2021, and on Linux, macOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S over the following two years. The game puts the player in a cabin where a mysterious gamemaster makes them play a tabletop game.

Inscryption blends various genres, including deck-building, roguelike, turn-based strategy, escape room, puzzle and adventure, while drawing inspiration from, among others, tabletop role-playing games, board games, horror, vlogs, and found footage. Its presentation is a combination of computer animation, pixel art, drawn art, and live action, as well as first person, third-person and 2.5D perspectives. It provides no context nor backstory at its start; its cryptic, metafictional narrative must be put together from subsequent story elements and various optional clues. A real-world alternate reality game (ARG), embedded both in video from the game and outside of it, offers additional story elements via many easter eggs that must be decrypted.

The game originated as Sacrifices Must Be Made, a much shorter and simpler game made by Mullins in 2018 for a Ludum Dare game jam, which used a deck-building system in which the player had to kill their own creatures to summon others. After publishing the prototype to itch.io in December 2018, the positive response led Mullins to significantly expand on the original game, resulting in the making of Inscryption. The game received positive reviews upon release, winning several Game of the Year awards and selling 1 million copies by January 2022: its originality, card battle system, visuals and narrative were particularly praised, although changes in the later parts of the game received some criticism. A free expansion titled Kaycee's Mod, allowing players to focus on the tabletop game without Inscryption's various other elements, was released in March 2022.

Official trailer

Trailer. Watch on YouTube

Gameplay

Inscryption (FULL GAME) | Part 1 | PS5 Story Walkthrough | [4K, HDR, 60FPS], Tiseba Walkthroughs. Watch on YouTube

Screenshots

Game details

Genres

Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game

Developer

Daniel Mullins Games

Publisher

Devolver Digital, Daniel Mullins Games

Engine

Unity

Platforms

Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox One

Age rating

ESRB M

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

No

Co op

No

Age ratings

ACB

M

CLASS IND

14

GRAC

19+

PEGI

16

USK

12

ESRB

M

CERO

C

Release dates

Editions

Check out the store

Subscription history

Trophies

Trophies41

Platinum possibleYes

Platinum

1

Gold

3

Silver

12

Bronze

25

Total

41

Points

1305

Platinum time

50 hours

100% time

50 hours

Difficulty

5 out of 10

Playthroughs for platinum

1

Playthroughs for 100%

1

Platinum without online

Yes

Online trophies

0

Boosting needed

No

DLC has trophies

No

Platinum includes DLC

No

100% includes DLC

No

DLC still for sale

No

DLC note

No paid DLC.

Missable trophies

6

Chapter select fixes a miss

Yes

Separate trophy lists by region

Yes

Only in a language other than English

No

Languages

English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

Region note

Separate North American and European lists.

Online-only version

No

Digital-only

Yes

Disc-only

No

Trophy list shared with other versions

No

Other versions

The PS4 version has its own lists. One purchase covers both.

Players with the platinum

8.18%

Missable trophies

• Agonizing Remorse
• Collective Effort
• Dark Offering
• Devil's Play
• Forgotten Lore
• Grim Bounty

• Hey There Card Gamers Unlock all other trophies Platinum 8.18% of players
• Blood Artist Complete your first Deathcard. Bronze 81.48% of players
• Innocuous Insect Free a Stinkbug from the safe. Bronze 73.16% of players
• Uncage the Menagerie Free the Wolf Statue from its cage. Bronze 62.08% of players
• Ancestral Vision Fill your empty socket with something magical. Bronze 55.41% of players
• Reborn Hope Find a spare film roll. Bronze 54.76% of players
• Enduring Victory Defeat Leshy. Bronze 50.1% of players
• Renewal Start a new game. Silver 47.83% of players
• Doomed Necromancer Complete the Temple of the Dead. Bronze 39.99% of players
• Avenging Druid Complete the Temple of Beasts. Bronze 40.61% of players
• Accomplished Automaton Complete the Temple of Technology. Bronze 38.78% of players
• Wizard Mentor Complete the Temple of Magicks. Bronze 38.61% of players
• Miner's Bane Defeat The Prospector. Bronze 75.88% of players
• Grizzled Angler Defeat The Angler. Bronze 62.18% of players
• Face to Face Defeat The Trapper and The Trader. Bronze 52.48% of players
• Squirrel Wrangler Win a battle with damage from Squirrels. Silver 30.92% of players
• Gruesome Encore Allow The Mycologists to experiment on a creature that is already itself an experiment. Silver 22.72% of players
• Role Reversal Steal back one of your creatures from The Angler. Silver 23.49% of players
• Balance of Power Allow P03 to gain control of Inscryption. Bronze 38.11% of players
• Rank and File Defeat The Archivist. Bronze 33.65% of players
• Essence Capture Defeat The Photographer. Bronze 33.49% of players
• Painter's Servant Defeat The Unfinished Boss. Bronze 32.55% of players
• Natural Connection Defeat G0lly. Bronze 32.3% of players
• Murder Witness the death of P03. Bronze 32.2% of players
• Dramatic Finale Complete the finale of Inscryption. Silver 32.17% of players
• Collective Effort Collect every card in the Original Inscryption. Silver 14.26% of players
• Devil's Play Attack for over 666 damage in the Original Inscryption. Gold 13.69% of players
• Dark Offering Make an offering to The Bone Lord. Silver 17.49% of players
• Forgotten Lore Receive all 5 cards from The Trader in P03's factory. Silver 21.64% of players
• Grim Bounty Destroy a Level 3 Bounty Hunter card. Silver 15.78% of players
• Agonizing Remorse Don't empty the Recycling Bin. Silver 12.63% of players
• Dubious Challenge Clear Challenge Level 1 in Kaycee's Mod. Bronze 16.27% of players
• Taunting Challenge Clear Challenge Level 4 in Kaycee's Mod. Bronze 12.18% of players
• Roar of Challenge Clear Challenge Level 8 in Kaycee's Mod. Silver 10.46% of players
• Rise to the Challenge Clear Challenge Level 12 in Kaycee's Mod. Gold 9.47% of players
• Skull Storm Complete a run with every Challenge active in Kaycee's Mod. Gold 8.46% of players
• Master Trinketeer Unlock all 3 items from the oil painting in Kaycee's Mod. Bronze 9.39% of players
• Start // Finish Complete a run with every Starter Deck in Kaycee's Mod. Silver 9.06% of players
• Rookie Mistake Make 10 misplays in a single Kaycee's Mod run. Bronze 20.42% of players
• Pulling Teeth Pull out 32 teeth in Kaycee's Mod. Bronze 10.78% of players
• Bad Moon Defeat Leshy in Kaycee's Mod without destroying The Moon. Bronze 9.86% of players

Space and patches

Space needed2.1 GB

Update patch01.000.003

The updates on record for this game.

DLC

No paid DLC. Kaycee's Mod, a free card-game mode, was already in the game when it reached PlayStation.

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player, still sold on the PlayStation Store.

Online

Online servers runningNo online features

Plays offlineYes

No online features. The whole game plays offline.

Services

Service	Status
Online features	Does not exist

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Developer	Daniel Mullins Games
Publisher	Devolver Digital
Director	Daniel Mullins
Composer	Jonah Senzel

Credits

Publisher

Devolver Digital, Daniel Mullins Games

Developer

Daniel Mullins Games

Director

Daniel Mullins

Released

2022-08-30

Age rating

ESRB M

Region

US

Time to beat

about 15.8 hours