Inscryption

Inscryption is a roguelike deck-building game developed by Daniel Mullins Games and published by Devolver Digital. Inscryption was released for Microsoft Windows on October 19, 2021. It was released on Linux and macOS on June 22, 2022, which was followed by PlayStation 4 and 5 versions in August. A Nintendo Switch port was released in December 2022. As a metafictional game, Inscryption involves found footage as the player watches the experiences of a vlogger that stumbled across a video game called Inscryption, which holds a number of strange secrets. As the player interacts with a mysterious dealer in a dark cabin, they find further secrets that expose more of the history of the fictional Inscryption. The game was initially a prototype that Daniel Mullins had created for a Ludum Dare game jam with the theme of "Sacrifices must be made". Initially, Mullins created a card game where sacrificing cards already played became the central mechanic. After publishing the prototype to itch.io and receiving positive response, Mullins expanded the game, expanding on both the card game and adding escape the room-style elements. An official mod was released in March 2022 that allowed players to play a version of the game that focused only on the card game without the additional puzzle elements. The game received generally positive reviews, and was named both Game of the Year for the Game Developers Choice Awards and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival, and was nominated as game of the year for the D.I.C.E. Awards, and the BAFTA Game Awards. (Wikipedia).