Inkulinati
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.6h
- Value
- $4.46/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD RX 560, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Inkulinati is a turn-based strategy game straight from medieval manuscripts, where a rabbit’s bum can be deadlier than a dog's sword. Become a master of the Living Ink, build your own bestiary, defeat medieval superstars and collect perks to unleash hidden powers.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was August 2025. It has been discounted 36 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 40 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, dotAGE ($17.59, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Legends of Kingdom Rush ($5.99, scores 16).
Of the 389 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 19, 3.4 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
58% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 11:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Whimsical art straight from the illuminated scripts of old. Quite a lot of depth. The game loop can get old, but it is a fun one to put down and come back to after a break.
Cute, a bit raunchy, and very clever in using marginalia to create a turn-by-turn battle. I appreciated working my way through the lessons and learning the strategy of the game--of which there is plenty!--even while being like yep, there is weird stuff in some medieval manuscripts. Great art, fun time. A bit simplistic, but glad to see this celebrating the oddity of marginalia.
An amazing and fun game for any strategy fans. Lot of cool and unique units, talents and options to fight in the campaign or duels. Great medieval artstyle. Campaign is a roguelike journey and will not get boring as there are a lot of different variables and strategies you can do. Would love if the icons for the talents and abilities had different colors and not only the icon, this would help to easily differentiate...
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Cite this score
Inkulinati scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/957960/inkulinatiReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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