There’s a technique popular in classical music called variation: a composer will take a single melody or musical idea and explore it in many different ways, potentially twisting it into dozens of ...

“Scary” isn’t usually a word that comes to mind when talking about digital card games. Some deck-builders, like Hearthstone, include cards that depict menacing monsters, but those creatures are never ...

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Inscryption is filled with strange little puzzles for you to figure out, some of which are the purposes of of the cards themselves. Inscryption is the kind of game that’s just packed with puzzles.

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Inscryption is one of the most perplexing games I have ever played. For our 2021 game of the year coverage, Polygon is celebrating our top 10 video games with a collection of essays. You can see our ...

With Inscryption, Daniel Mullins Games secured its reputation as one of the most exciting developers around. While its previous indie games Pony Island and The Hex are both outstanding, sitting at 95% ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Fighting through a tough deck-building roguelike card game is central to Inscryption, but if you want to make real progress in the game, you'll need ...

Inscryption looks like a deck-building roguelike, and it kind of is, but that's really just a plate on which you're served a helping of genre-blurring metastory. (If you've played developer Daniel ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Inscryption is an outstanding deck-building card game--until it isn't. At around the halfway mark, the compelling, run-based structure of its core ...

Inscryption has lots of secrets lurking beneath the surface, and players learn pretty early on that something is amiss with the card game they are playing and the opponent who is testing them. But if ...