Inscryption
BANGER · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.62/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 149,720
- Critics
- 85 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 12.8h
- To 100%
- 31.9h 2.5x the story
- Finish
- 41% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 43 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,224 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. 43 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Menace from the Deep ($16.99, scores 59) and Black Book ($24.99, scores 77), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Inscryption
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 October 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,023 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 2,273 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.
149,720 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game blew me away with how much more it had to offer after a certain point of the game, it's more than just a deck builder
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A Truly Unique Experience I'll say right away: this game is best played blind. Trust me, that's how you'll get the most out of it. Inscryption is a deckbuilder with a strong narrative focus. It is divided into three acts: Act 1 - The best act in the whole game: first, because roguelike mechanics form its core, and second, because of the atmosphere and the mystery surrounding everything. It also offers the most...
This game can't figure out what it wants to do. Pick a lane, Inscryption. Act 1 is frustrating, but tolerable. You basically roll the dice until you have a good setup. It's roguelike at it's core, so you can theoretically win any of your runs. Act 2 is much better. Still the same game, and allows for card collection, deckbuilding, and some actual strategy. Easily the best part. Act 3 kills any interest I have in the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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...
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Inscryption scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1092790/inscryptionReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.