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Inscryption

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Inscryption
Inscryption cover
Developers
Daniel Mullins Games
Publishers
Devolver Digital
Engines
Unity 2019[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows October 19, 2021
macOS (OS X) June 22, 2022
Linux June 22, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 85
OpenCritic 86
IGDB 80
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Genres Card/tile, Roguelike, Strategy
Themes Horror
Inscryption on HowLongToBeat
Inscryption on IGDB
Inscryption guide on StrategyWiki
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Inscryption on Wikipedia

Inscryption is a singleplayer card/tile, roguelike and strategy game.

General information

Developer Discord server
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Xbox Play Anywhere
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
DRM free after creating a text filed named steam_appid and filling it with the games steam ID (1092790).
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
A demo is available from Steam.
The prototype for Inscryption made for the Game Jam, Sacrifices Must Be Made, is available on Daniel Mullins' itch.io

Optional improvements

Turn off analytics
  1. Go to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\LocalLow\Daniel Mullins Games\Inscryption\Unity\YOURID\Analytics
  2. Open config with any text editor like notepad
  3. Change {"analytics":{"enabled":true} to {"analytics":{"enabled":false}
  4. Change "limit_user_tracking":false to "limit_user_tracking":true
  5. Change "player_opted_out":false to "player_opted_out":true
  6. Change shouldCollectAutomation":true to shouldCollectAutomation":false

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SaveFile.gwsave[Note 2]
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Used to claim support on store page, but was never supported.[2]
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Runs without vsync.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Vsync forced in window, disabled in 'fullscreen'.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
All dialogue is text based (except for video clips, which have an option for subtitles).
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Option to toggle.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[3]
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Input Rewired

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-760 2.8 GHz
AMD Athlon II X4 645 3.1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 6850
2 GB (Nvidia), 1 GB (AMD) of VRAM


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2019.4.24f1[1]
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2021-10-27
  2. Cloud save? - GOG Forum post, 2021-10-26 - last accessed on 2022-02-07
  3. Inscryption - last accessed on 4 December 2022