Inscryption | The Greats (Masterpiece)

I absolutely love the theme of staying in one room throughout the whole game and having the environment around the table change. Even the person you play cards with has to put on masks and act as different NPCs.

This game does something I love with turn based combat.. It gives you really fast animations for everything so that you aren't stuck in the monotony of waiting for stuff to play out that you've already seen many times over.
The rules are vaguely similar to the likes of Hearth Stone and uses damage values you've seen in other card games. A big twist being that your resources depend on the loss of other units. To get a monster that costs 1 point out you'll have to sacrifice a free card you've already put on the board prior for example. These free cards are actually available to you at any time, you can draw from your own deck you accumulate between battles or one consisting of squirrels, which are essentially sacrificial fodder for your other cards. Offing a line of fodder monsters to bring out the damage dealers is fun and STAYS fun throughout your multiple attempts to beat the game.

Overall, Inscryption could've aimed much lower than it did and still have been VERY well off.. But the extra tricks it has up it's sleeve end up giving it more life than even that. How you feel about some of it's bigger twists are going to ultimately affect your opinion of the game, me personally.. I think we have a bit of a hat on a hat situation here.. I won’t spoil anything but like pony island and Doki Doki Literature Club , not all is what it seems in inscryption, and I don’t think it needed to be that way.
The base premise of the entire game taking place in one room yet still having environmental changes has enough intrigue and mystery that there was no need to pile on top of that. Yet it did, some people will probably feel like it should've reeled in and had more focus, while others will be wide eyed and thrown off in the best possible way.
I find myself in the middle of these two extremes, but I can say that for its quick.. Deep battles and it’s enticing mysteries.. Inscryption unnervingly.. And easily.. Earns a spot… as one of the greats..