50 Fun Facts About Inscryption

Which talking card in every Act I starting deck of Inscryption secretly holds the robot Scrybe P03?

Stoat is P03 trapped in card form, and its portrait gradually changes to look like the robot as the player progresses.

In Act I of Inscryption, Leshy turns each defeated player into a card using which object, later stolen from him?

Camera in hand, Leshy captures the loser's soul as a death card that can turn up in later runs, and the player finally traps him the same way with a hidden roll of film.

Which Inscryption card survives being sacrificed again and again, until it eventually turns undead?

Cat survives every sacrifice until the ninth, when it becomes a 3-Power, 6-Health undead version of itself, a nod to the old belief in nine lives.

In Inscryption, the card-pack YouTuber digs up the cursed game in a forest on which old storage medium?

Floppy disk in hand, he finds no trace of the game on the internet, and the publisher GameFuna denies it exists while demanding it back.

Leshy, the shadowy cabin dealer in Inscryption, takes his name from a forest spirit of which mythology?

Slavic folklore's Leshy turned up when creator Daniel Mullins searched the web for a forest demon, and the creature suited the horror tone he wanted.

Which Act I card in Inscryption bears Worthy Sacrifice, counting as three Blood when it is killed for another card?

Black Goat is the only card that naturally bears the sigil, and offering one to the Bone Lord starts every later battle of the run with eight Bones.

Which rare card in Inscryption returns to the hand stronger each time it dies, keeping the boost across acts?

Ouroboros gains +1 Power and +1 Health with every death, and the growth is permanent, so a patient player can loop sacrifices to build a monster.

Which Act I boss in Inscryption flips his mask upside-down mid-fight to become the Trader?

The Trapper sells pelts and the Trader swaps them for cards, and the Snow Line boss fight reveals that both shopkeepers are one person behind a single mask.

Which publisher released Inscryption, the 2021 deck-building horror game directed by Daniel Mullins?

Devolver Digital put the game out on Windows in October 2021, then brought it to PlayStation, Switch and Xbox over the next two years.

Inscryption is framed as found footage recorded by which internet video creator?

Luke Carder posts as The Lucky Carder, and his live-action clips reveal that everything the player does is really his recorded playthrough.

Which Scrybe ends Inscryption by starting a full wipe of the game, believing its deletion is for the greater good?

Grimora brushes off Magnificus's protest that she has doomed them all, insisting the deletion frees the Scrybes from their strife and suffering.

In Inscryption, cards made by the Scrybe P03 are paid for with which resource, which refills itself every turn?

Energy starts at a single cell and gains one more each turn up to six, so P03's big robots simply have to wait rather than demand a sacrifice.

Which object on the table decides an Inscryption card battle once direct damage reaches a five-point lead?

A scale takes a weight for every point of direct damage, so a player close to losing can still claw the balance back by hitting harder than the opponent.

Which trading card game's sacrifice mechanic inspired Daniel Mullins when he built the first Inscryption prototype?

Magic: The Gathering had pulled Mullins back in around then, and its idea of killing your own creatures to play stronger ones became the heart of his jam entry.

Act I of Inscryption sends players along branching maps of battles and events, much like which roguelike deck-builder?

Slay the Spire fans will know the layout: four randomly generated maps, the first three ending in a boss and the last in a duel with Leshy himself.

Act II of Inscryption swaps the 3D cabin for a top-down role-playing world drawn in which retro style?

Pixel art marks the supposed original version of the game, where the player collects card packs and challenges all four Scrybes, Pokémon style.

Using the Special Dagger in Act I of Inscryption costs the player which body part, in return for four points of damage?

An eye is gouged out, blurring the view for the rest of the fight, and picking the right replacement afterwards reveals hidden markings around the cabin.

In Leshy's cabin in Inscryption, the Stunted Wolf card and a roll of film are hidden inside which object?

Cuckoo clock hands must be set to a secret time, which only shows once the player has gained the power to see hidden markings.

Which currency, earned through overkill damage in Act I of Inscryption, is spent on animal pelts?

Teeth pile up whenever a winning blow deals more damage than it needed, while Foils and Robobucks are the money of Act II and Act III.

Who in Act I of Inscryption will merge two duplicate cards from the deck into a single stronger one?

The Mycologists are two heads sharing one body, a nervous doctor and a blunt mushroom, and their fusion combines both cards' stats and sigils.

Which rare insect card in Inscryption bears Trifurcated Strike, hitting the lanes left, right and opposite it?

Mantis God triples every point of Power it gains, which makes a campfire buff on this one-Blood card worth three times the damage.

Which rare Inscryption card costs four Blood for 7 Power and 7 Health, and is named after an Alaskan legend?

Urayuli is a creature said to live in the woods of southwestern Alaska, and in the game one unblocked hit from it tips a level scale far enough to win outright.

Which rare reptile card in Inscryption has no sigil and only 1 Power and 1 Health, but costs nothing to play?

Geck looks like the weakest rare in the cabin, yet a free card that can soak up campfire buffs and extra sigils often ends up among the strongest.

Which two-Blood card in Act I of Inscryption carries Touch of Death, instantly killing any card it damages?

Adder's bite makes its own 1 Power irrelevant, so players often spend upgrades on its Health or pass the sigil to a cheaper card.

Which one-Blood card in Inscryption is built to block flying attackers that would otherwise pass over it?

Bullfrog's Mighty Leap sigil stops Airborne cards that would otherwise fly overhead, though with 2 Health it mostly buys a turn or two for something better.

Which rare card in Act I of Inscryption belongs to every tribe at once, so any totem affects it?

Amalgam counts as bird, canine, hooved beast, reptile, insect and even squirrel, and the Woodcarver hands one over on the player's eighth visit.

Which rare Inscryption card pairs 0 Power and 6 Health with Burrower, moving to block attacks on empty lanes?

Mole Man also carries Mighty Leap, so the one-Blood wall stops flyers as well, which makes it ideal for stalling while a stronger hand builds.

Which two-Blood card in Inscryption bears Fecundity, putting a fresh copy of itself in the hand when played?

Field Mice are a modest fighter, but the sigil turns absurd once it is moved to a free card, which can then flood the board with copies of itself.

Which insect card in Inscryption costs four Bones and returns to the hand whenever it dies?

Cockroach is one of only two natural carriers of the Unkillable sigil, so players often pass it on to a stronger card at the Mysterious Stones.

Which rare Inscryption card starts as a Strange Larva and, two turns later, emerges with 7 Power and Airborne?

Mothman takes patience: the larva and then the pupa sit powerless for a turn each, so players hide them behind a boulder or stump until they hatch.

In Inscryption, which giant 40-Health card is the only one Leshy plays in the last phase of his Act I boss fight?

The Moon carries a sigil called Tidal Lock, which drags any Squirrels and Rabbits left on the board up into its orbit at the start of Leshy's turn.

Which rare Inscryption card, based on the Jersey Devil legend, flips between dormant and awakened forms when sacrificed?

Child 13 hides an easter egg: sacrifice it thirteen times and it becomes the Hungry Child, a card carried over from the game-jam prototype.

Which one-Blood card in Inscryption adds a free second creature to the hand when it is played?

Warren's Rabbit Hole sigil creates a free Rabbit, which effectively refunds the card's cost and also inherits any extra sigils the parent has.

Beating the Wetlands boss too quickly in Inscryption makes Leshy fill the board with which 4-Power, 6-Health card?

Grizzly cards with Mighty Leap fill every enemy space when a player who has never lost a run beats the Angler's first phase, which usually ends that run.

Which rare Inscryption card bears Trinket Bearer, handing the player an item whenever it is played with room to spare?

Pack Rat is also the consolation prize for a full backpack: reach an item event already holding three items and the cabin hands over the card instead.

In Inscryption, each Bait Bucket destroyed in the Angler's second phase releases which 4-Power Waterborne card?

Great White sharks are so hard to handle that the usual advice is to leave the buckets alone and send flying attackers over the top of them.

Which card does the opponent start playing in Inscryption when the player has run out of cards to draw?

Starvation grows by 1 Power and 1 Health each time another appears, and from the fifth one on it flies, so stalling forever is never an option.

P03's secret plan in Act III of Inscryption, The Great Transcendence, is to do what with the game?

An online upload to a game storefront would spread P03's version worldwide, and the robot quietly raids the player's files and internet connection to pull it off.

Which tool in Acts II and III of Inscryption lets players destroy any card on their own side of the board?

Hammer blows deal 100 damage to the chosen card, handy for clearing a blocked lane or deliberately setting off an effect that fires when a card dies.

Which Inscryption sigil makes a card grow into a stronger form after surviving one turn, as a Wolf Cub does?

Fledgling turns the Wolf Cub into a full Wolf, and the Raven Egg and the Elk Fawn grow up the same way.

In his second phase in Inscryption, the Woodlands boss swings his pickaxe and turns all the player's cards into what?

Gold Nuggets clog the board because nothing can be done with them until the boss's own cards smash them, so players try to enter the phase with few cards down.

In Kaycee's Mod for Inscryption, the pirate final boss ends his fight with which giant 80-Health ship card?

The Limoncello has twice the Health of Leshy's own last card, and its lemony name is a jab at the captain, who died of scurvy for want of vitamin C.

The Act III boss G0lly in Inscryption builds enemy cards from which part of the player's real gaming account?

Friends list names and profile pictures appear on cards with random stats, and a player who is offline faces Mummy Lords with a photo of a real mummy instead.

Sacrifices Must Be Made, the short prototype that became Inscryption, was built for which game jam?

Ludum Dare 43 set the theme that gave the prototype its title, and the warm response after it went up free on itch.io persuaded Mullins to expand it.

Which gaming site named Inscryption its best video game of 2021, while Time and Ars Technica listed it among theirs?

Polygon put it top of its year-end list, and the following spring it became the first game to win the top prizes at both the GDC Awards and the IGF.

Solving the final painting puzzle in Leshy's cabin turns every Squirrel in the Inscryption side deck into what?

Bees fly with Airborne and hit for 1 Power, so the free side-deck card that once only fed sacrifices becomes a small attacker in its own right.

Which sigil-less insect card in Inscryption kills the campfire survivors who eat it, removing them for good?

Ring Worm is otherwise little better than a Squirrel that costs Blood, but once the survivors are gone a card can be buffed at every campfire with no risk.

In Inscryption, the secret code behind the alternate reality game is named after which 15th-century German card game?

Karnöffel is the oldest identifiable European card game still played, and the story's lore ties it to an occult Soviet algorithm buried inside the cursed game.

Which card is the reward for solving the first cabinet puzzle in Leshy's cabin in Inscryption?

Skink's Loose Tail sigil dodges the first hit by sliding one lane over and leaving a Wriggling Tail behind, and that tail inherits any buffs or extra sigils on the lizard.

The Wetlands boss in Inscryption marks the player's newest card every other turn, then drags it to his side with what?

A fish hook steals whatever was played last, so veterans end their turn by putting down a Squirrel or a pelt as bait to protect stronger cards.