Inscryption

Inscryption is a dark and twisted card-based odyssey that blends deckbuilding roguelike gameplay, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror. As players delve into the game, they must acquire a deck of woodland creature cards through draft, surgery, and self-mutilation, all while unlocking the chilling secrets hidden within the walls of Leshy's cabin. Prepare for an unexpected and deeply disturbing journey into the unknown as you navigate the cryptic and metafictional narrative woven throughout this mind-bending experience.

• Release date: 10-19-2021
• Developer: Daniel Mullins Games
• Publisher: Devolver Digital & Daniel Mullins Games
• Platforms: Linux, MacOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

Triggers for this game

Animals & Wildlife

• Aggressive Animals

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• Arachnids

  In Act 1, a spider can crawl over the table at various times

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• Birds

  Kingfishers, Sparrows, Magpies, Ravens, Turkey Vultures, and Raven Eggs

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• Cats

  Cats, Undead Cats

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• Dogs

  Bloodhounds

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• Fictional Creatures

  Hodag, Mothman, The Smoke, Greater Smoke

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• Insects

  Mantis, Pelt Lice, Strange Larva, Stinkbug, Bee, Beehive, Worker Ant, Ant Queen, Cockroach, Corpse Maggots

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• Misc. Animals & Critters

  Stoats, Grizzly Bears, Opossums, Frozen Opossums, Skinks, Squirrels, Aquasquirrels, Black Goats, Geckos, Tentacles, Coyotes, Child 13, Long Elk, Elk Fawn, Elk, Pronghorn, Moose Buck, Bullfrogs, River Snappers, Mole Man, Amalgam, The Daus, Urayuli, Amoeba, Moles, Porcupines, River Otters, Skunks, Warrens, Beavers, Bats, Rabbits, Pack Mules, Strange Frogs

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  Kaycee's Mod -- The Curious Eggs can be hatched into Hydras. Mud Turtles.

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• Parasites

  Ringworm

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• Rodents

  Pack Rats, Field Mice, Rat Kings

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• Sharks

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• Snakes

  Ouroboros, Adder, Rattler

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• Wolves

  Wolves, Wolf Cubs, Stunted Wolf, Caged Wolf, Alpha

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Crime

• Being Held Against Will

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  In Act 3, you are forced into playing cards with P03 who has handcuffed you to the table.

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• Explosions & Bombs

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  In Act 3, you encounter multiple unstable reactors that you have to defuse.

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• Guns & Shooting

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  END GAME SPOILERS: Gun violence occurs towards the end of the game, killing Luke. Blood visibly pools around his body, but the wound itself isn't visible.

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• Hostage Situation

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• Kidnapping

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  The game opens with your character seemingly being kidnapped and trapped in a log cabin with the captor.

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• Murder

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  END GAME SPOILERS: Gun violence occurs towards the end of the game, killing Luke. Blood visibly pools around his body, but the wound itself isn't visible.

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• Torture

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  Magnificus has his students do torturous activities as their "final exams," including turning one of them into goo, making one fry on a hot surface, and depriving one of them of all their senses for a long time.

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Death & Loss

• Death of Child

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  Kaycee's mother talks with Luke about the loss of her (adult) child

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• Drowning

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  Drowning imagery near the ending

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Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design

• Bone Crushing

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  A card called the Skeleton dies once it attacks, and it’s sigil is a bone breaking.

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• Clicking Sounds

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  Bomb challenges

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• Distorted Voices

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  When the Failure Bottle speaks, various character voices

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• High-Pitched Prolonged Tone

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  When you have to pull out your teeth or pluck out your eye, you'll hear a high-pitched noise meant to be similar to ringing in the ears due to pain.

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• Misc. Eerie Noises

  During the "Making a Deathcard" sections of the game

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  The transition between Acts 2 and 3 has a loud buzzing robotic noise. “Making a Deathcard" -- A loud noise plays when you get to this section of the game. At the end of it, a large flash plays along with a loud camera click noise. If you beat the game too fast, you get “Too Fast, Too Soon”ed with a loud glitching noise across the screen. In act 3, noises during the Grimora pirate ship scene are excessively loud.

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• Wet Sounds

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  One boss's theme has squelching and skinning sound effects in it that are rather unpleasant to listen to.

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Drugs & Alcohol

• Intoxication

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  One boss is supposed to come off as intoxicated.

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Financial & Resource Management

• Misc. Financial & Resource Management

  Hunger

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  If starving, the desperate survivors can tear any creature apart.

  • Is avoidable

Gore

• Amputation

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  Skinks can detach their tails to evade an enemy's attack.

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• Animal Violence

  The core gameplay revolves around sacrificing animals to summon bigger ones or monsters. All animal death shown however is not presented in great detail at all, as they are only represented as simple drawings on playing cards.

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  You'll have to trade in pelts during the game. Some cards are alive and provide some commentary about the suffering they experience. One puzzle in Act 2 involves luring a rabbit into a bear trap.

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• Beheading

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  At one point, a robot gets its head ripped off. One of the characters in Act 2 is a head on a spear. The console-exclusive ARG mentions someone's head being put inside a robot.

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• Blood

  One of the main mechanics is sacrificing cards on the field for blood in order to play better cards (spending said blood in the process).

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  END GAME SPOILERS: Gun violence occurs towards the end of the game, killing Luke. Blood visibly pools around his body, but the wound itself isn't visible.

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• Body Horror

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  During the card game, you'll have to pull out your own teeth with pliers or pluck out your eye with a knife. The Mycologist in Act 3 brings a lot of body horror.

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• Dismemberment

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  During the card game, you'll have to pull out your own teeth with pliers or pluck out your eye with a knife.

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Horror Themes

• Demons & Devils

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  In Act 3 you can get a Tarot card called "The Devil" it's implied it's the same devil from Pony Island.

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• Ghosts & Hauntings

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  Grimora’s whole gimmick is to turn ghosts into cards

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• Jump Scares

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  Happens during the first section and towards the end of the game

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• Psychological Horror

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LGBTQ+

• Misc. LGBTQ+

  Misgendering of P03

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  P03 is referred to as He/Him by his fellow robots, but non-robot characters strictly use It/Its pronouns for him.

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Natural Events

• Storms

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Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

• Altercations

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• Child Abuse

  There is a card called "Child 13" that you (as with most other cards) can sacrifice, however the card more closely resembles a hybrid creature of some kind and not an actual child.

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• Gaslighting

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• Harassment

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• Manipulation

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• Mutilation

  Self

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Phobias

• Agliophobia

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• Arachnophobia

  In Act 1, a spider can crawl over the table at various times

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• Automatonophobia

  P03 is a robot

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• Hemophobia

  One of the main mechanics is sacrificing cards on the field for blood in order to play better cards (spending said blood in the process).

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  END GAME SPOILERS: Gun violence occurs towards the end of the game, killing Luke. Blood visibly pools around his body, but the wound itself isn't visible.

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• Katsaridaphobia

  Cockroach cards

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• Melissophobia

  Bee cards

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• Merinthophobia

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  In the third act, you are forced into playing cards with P03 who has handcuffed you to the table.

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• Misc. Phobias

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  Agrizoophobia (Fear of wild animals), Atychiphobia (Fear of failure), Batrachophobia (Fear of amphibians), Chiroptophobia (Fear of bats), Cynophobia (Fear of dogs), Demonophobia (Fear of demons), Decidophobia (Fear of making decisions), Doraphobia (Fear of fur or skins of animals), Felinophobia (Fear of cats), Gelotophobia (Fear of being laughed at), Gephyrophobia (Fear of bridges), Helminthophobia (Fear of worms), Herpetophobia (Fear of reptiles), Hylophobia (Fear of forests), Ichthyophobia (Fear of fish), Insectophobia (Fear of insects), Katagelophobia (Fear of ridicule), Lutraphobia (Fear of otters), Mechanophobia (fear of machines), Musophobia (fear of mice or rats), Myrmecophobia (fear of ants), Ophidiophobia (Fear of snakes), Ornithophobia (Fear of birds), Phasmophobia (fear of ghosts or phantoms), Ranidaphobia (fear of frogs), Thanatophobia (Fear of dying)

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• Necrophobia

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  As befitting the Scrybe of the Dead, Grimora's cards mainly consist of skeletal creatures.

  • Can't be avoided

• Nyctophobia

  Dark and scary atmosphere, but doesn't impede vision

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• Ommetaphobia

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  At one point, you cut out your own eye with a knife to gain an advantage

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Physical Health & Body Issues

• Misc. Physical Health & Body Issues

  Body dysmorphia

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  Several characters are turned into cards and are shown to be uncomfortable with it

  • Can't be avoided

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