INSCRYPTION

Developer/ publisher Daniel Mullins Games Format PC Origin Canada Release 2021

You are sitting at a candlelit table in a wooden cabin. You are playing cards. You can’t make out your opponent’s face in the darkness – only its large, hungry eyes and the masks it puts on and takes off with enormous, leathery fingers. The card game – summarised by ’s creator as “a deck-building Roguelike in the vein of” – sees you lining up cards to inflict or block damage, as measured by a pair of golden scales. Cards have a blood price: more powerful varieties require you to sacrifice others for points. Between card battles you move a figurine around a dotted parchment map. It’s not clear what you’re playing for, but the stakes are obviously high.