Inscryption
BANGER · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 12.8h
- Value
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (3072 VRAM); Radeon HD 6850 (1024 VRAM), 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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...
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. 41 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Griftlands ($5.99, scores 83) and .Forty-Five (free, scores 82), are both worse buys on this math.
85 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 304 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 2,261 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 32, 2.5 times as much.
5 years after release it still had 1.3K people in it at once.
The drop-off
94% start to 41% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
1,301 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Very late to leave my comment, but yeah, I really love this game. I keep coming back to find more nonsensical card synergies and exploits, long after I finished the main story. I am usually not one for rogue-likes, but the story and atmosphere roped me in. The worldbuilding is fascinating and, again, there are so many rule-bending (cough and breaking cough) elements that sometimes it's just fun to play to find the...
Didn't know anything about this game, my sister bought it for me as gift. Thought it was a fun little card based roguelite without much of a story that I could spend a few hours on now and again. I was very wrong.
TL;DR This game would be an instant recommend if the devs had scrapped Act 2 & 3 as well as the ARG elements and instead poured their efforts into making Act 1 longer & with more content. Act 1 is exactly what you think it is, a neat roguelike deckbuilder with fantastic theming and interesting puzzles alongside the deckbuilder that expand the game out dramatically. I can't recommend Act 1 enough. But it's quite...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Inscryption scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1092790/inscryptionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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