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 ...

Stefan is a machine that plays video games, writes about video games, and then stares at a wall. Staring at a wall is the most productive part of its day. If there's one thing Daniel Mullins is known ...

Based in Rome, Diana loves all kinds of stories, even though she’s too lazy for most things that aren’t games. She's a freelance writer with a degree in Art History, contributing to GameRant while she ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Inscryption is riddled with secrets and puzzles that reveal the ...

“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 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 ...

Inscryption is one of 2021's best games, but it was hard to justify putting it into any specific category. It's a deck-building game, yes, but it's also a puzzle game and a horror game that blends ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A gaming journalism veteran of ten-plus years and four-time IGF judge, largely attracted to indie games, new IPs, and in general, what could very well be the gaming world's next surprise hit. Divorced ...