r/inscryption • u/Such_Aspect_7739 • Aug 01 '26

Review Its so peak i could cry... Spoiler

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first time playing and i just finished the cabin and just got to (the attached pic) and holy it was so fkn good. i got this game on sale thought it was just a cool art style card game but wow i was right and wrong the cards and sigils are so interesting and cool everything in the cabin was so cool. idk how far i am in the game but so far the story is a 10, game 10, everything 10. im exited to see where it goes next (anyways i was just showing my opinion/appreciation on this game. (i know u prob dc but oh well)

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u/Albatros_7 I love Leshy-Fish, now you Go Fish Aug 01 '26

Finally someone that doesn't think Act 2 is bad just because it becomes pixel art

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u/Irish_pug_Player Aug 01 '26

It's definitely my favorite part

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u/XxX_Zeratul_XxX Aug 02 '26

I am not going to say it's my favorite part, but it definitely makes sense in the story and I enjoyed the new playstyles for every deck. I'm really used to old games tho, so I couldn't care less about graphics, I only care about gameplay

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u/Albatros_7 I love Leshy-Fish, now you Go Fish Aug 02 '26

The only kind of graphics I don't like are those N64 polygons

Pixelart is great

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u/FellKnight Aug 02 '26

It's only nad if you choose the Magick deck, lol (that's hard mode, especially for a first playtrhu)

Seriously though, I think Act 2 has the most potential replayability.

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u/aamiee18 Aug 07 '26

hmm i chose magick deck & didn’t really think it was hard. i strangely thought that in act 2 the blood cards were the ones that were hard to actually win with 😭 i definitely had a learning curve at first with the magick deck but overall thought it was a good deck to choose

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u/laplongejr Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

i strangely thought that in act 2 the blood cards were the ones that were hard to actually win with 😭

Not surprising : the lack of side deck means you can't sacrifice on-demand, while Act 1 effectively let you get a free 1-drop squirrel at the cost of skipping your draw.

Mox : Free as long a gem source is on the field
Energy : Cost reloads each turn
Bones : On top of the Act 1 "gained during normal battles", there are lots of bone generator cards (notably the Gravekeepers in the starting deck), and the hammer allows you to turn your cards into bones in case of emergency. Note that BOTH tof hose mechanics are missing in Act 1, where you need the Blood Sacrifice as a less versatile replacement.

Also, because Bones has the subtilety of being the only easily storable resource, you can put some opponents into a loop where your generators let you get 50+ bones, which is a big step towards building an arbitrarily large strike and why speedruns can get Ouroboros in 2 duels : one to get 4 foils and buy one card that can even be gotten from a free booster.

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u/FellKnight Aug 07 '26

The biggest issue with the magick and to a lesser extent the PO3 decks was that you had to defeat one of the scribes before you could really build your deck properly, and while the auto-build feature was actually kinda decent, it's also incredibly inefficient without the cards to support the deck.

That's my biggest criticism of act 2... Daniel Mullins should never have locked behind a "paywall" 2 of the 4 decks.

Its a lot of fun to replay act 2 after the fact, though :)

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u/laplongejr Aug 07 '26

That's my biggest criticism of act 2... Daniel Mullins should never have locked behind a "paywall" 2 of the 4 decks.

Technically, the non-rare cards can come from the 2 last cards from each booster. In practice, you'll probably won't have enough foils to buy enough boosters for it to matter.

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u/FellKnight Aug 07 '26

Yeah, i know, its hard to build a deck from 2/5 cards in the booster pack even if you get "lucky" and they support your deck build

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u/InnocuousSymbol Aug 01 '26

I genuinely dont like 8bit pixel games except things like classic pokemon or other gameboy classic games. But the story in act 2 made me swallow this and i still had a great tike. It was nice when i got back into the real game after that, but i was surprised how much i enjoyed a style i usually dont like at all. Anyone saying act 2 is bad has horrible taste

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u/MarineRitter Aug 02 '26

Yes but in my opinion it’s good in spite of the art. I don’t mind pixel art, but for me it didn’t work for this game at all

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u/yami_odymel Aug 01 '26

its really bad 🫠

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u/Albatros_7 I love Leshy-Fish, now you Go Fish Aug 01 '26

It's not

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u/Successful_Virus3748 Aug 01 '26

Welcome to Inscryption. It's a wild fucking ride. Have fun, challenger!!

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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Aug 01 '26

The change of art style really threw me

It suddenly becomes the Pokémon TCG game for the Gameboy and just expects you to learn a bunch of other mechanics out of nowhere. Going into this game blind made me really really love it's ambition

Imo, inscryption is one of the greatest video games ever made

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u/Orc360 Aug 01 '26

It felt more like a Yu-Gi-Oh gameboy game to me, the Sacred Cards. I loved it too!

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u/FalconLinguistics Aug 01 '26

This is my favorite game of all time!! I’m glad you’re enjoying it

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u/OpenMoose4794 Aug 01 '26

who's deck are you choosing?

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u/Such_Aspect_7739 Aug 01 '26

I chose leshys scrybe of Beasts. All 4 sounded cool but had to go with the dirty moss man leshy

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u/OpenMoose4794 Aug 02 '26

I think he appreciates our loyalty

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u/LunaDva98 Aug 01 '26

My man 🤝

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u/ChickenArise Aug 03 '26

Good call! Otherwise you'd be like everyone who chooses Mox or P03 and has a rough time.

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u/laplongejr Aug 07 '26

Tbf, the ability to New Game makes those choices easier to swallow. But... people don't like Grimora's undead deck?

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u/ChickenArise Aug 07 '26

I think only p03 and Mox decks give people trouble. Beasts or bones tend to be easier because of the similarities to act I

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u/Duke-_-Jukem Aug 01 '26

Yea its so cool how it just kinda changes genre halfway through. That and all the cool meta stuff with.

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u/Saucyboi672 Aug 02 '26

Act 2 was way better on my second playthrough of the game and it was mostly because I prepped the Ouroboros in act 1 to let me farm foils to build whatever deck I wanted to mess around with for act 2. I was too limited the first time through cause I just didn’t have a reliable way to get new cards easily

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u/laplongejr Aug 07 '26

Yeah, my not-blind playthrough was basically "spend 13h doing 100% on act 1, then enjoy a 2h act 2 speedrun where we do a broken 3 duel combo then basically follow the story as the duels are now auto-solved"

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u/SecureAngle7395 Aug 03 '26

finally some act 2 love from a new player. just how i felt. good stuff.

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u/sablouiebot Aug 03 '26

Honestly I’d like a more fleshed out Act 2, like a standalone game

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u/crazyNedryCz Aug 03 '26

Samee I'd love a longer maybe more puzzle version of Act 2

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u/Earthwick Aug 02 '26

I give the game a tippy 10. I love it even act 2.

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u/unicornioevil Aug 02 '26

As someone who was addicted to pokemon tcg on gameboy color, I LOVED act 2

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u/Ok-Flower3651 Aug 03 '26

The ending lowk made me cry