Doing a review for something that is in Beta and also an add-on/mod may seem redundant but Kaycee's Mod has given me more entertainment than most games over the past few months so I felt I just had to spread the good word.

To not spoil this or Inscryption (my 2021 GOTY) what Kaycee's mod does is take the first act of the main game and let's you continue to play for longer and with more options.
Some of these options added in may be recognisable if you have played further into the game, some of these options are brand new cards.

On top of this Kaycee's mod adds challenge modifiers, these modifiers hinder you in lots of different ways and (arguably) get increasingly more difficult the more you unlock and if that wasn't enough you can, and should, try multiple challenges at once.

To give the game even more life you also get access to different starting decks which can be unlocked along the way and if the story and lore of Inscryption's world is why you want more this provides a little of that too.

I've cleared all the challenges but there is more I want to do. Get this downloaded, it's free if you have the base game and I believe is definitely worth your time.

RNG hell
It's good if you want more Inscryption. The card game mechanics are fun but honestly this extra mode is disappointing.

I expected more for an endless mode, like instead of deleting many items and puzzles from act 1, it could have added more to do on the cabin. You just unlock 3 unique items and that's it.
There's only one new event (the card painting one) and you unlock a small selection of cards by completing the challenge requirements.

I wanted more
More stuff from the other acts, like bosses, cards, mechanics.

Thanks to the rebalance It's more like a less fun version of act 1.
It's very frustrating and you just pray to RNGjesus that the game throws you a bone... then you proceed to exploit a busted synergy thanks to a totem, or the black goat, or the mantis god, or the dire wolf. The goal is to find a broken combination using what the game throws at you, but it's very easy to stomp Leshy once the ball gets rolling. Good luck with that though, because the higher the challenge level is, the more frequent your defeat at the hands of bullshit will be.

While Act 1 is everyone's favorite part of Inscryption the actual card game mechanics were, at least for me, one of the smallest parts of that. The cards are good throughout, what elevates act 1 is the immense sense of mystery and intrigue, the stoat and stinkbug, clues from previous victims, the feeling that even in your deaths you're building toward a plan to outsmart your captor, stakes being so high that your dude is willing to rip out a tooth for one extra point.

Turns out when you strip all that down and amp up the RNG/roguelike stuff it makes for a significantly less captivating experience. By the end of the core game the story contains practically zero of what initially hooked me, so even though there's probably more lore to uncover in here I'm not really interested in hearing it. Can't help but feel the existence of this narratively undermines the main game a little, too.

It's still good, and I'll probably return to it often enough, but I have to massively disagree with those claiming this is the better version or what the core game should be. On paper, sure, it's the universally-agreed best part of game expanded, but missing all the elements that made that part feel so fresh, made it feel more than just an addictive card battler.

This is moreso a part of the full game now I think, but I'd like to say that this rules. It takes the best part of Inscryption and expands upon it in to turn the game into the roguelite that people expected at the game's release. I generally don't like roguelites or card games, but this game's presentation and simple mechanics make it appealing too look at and easy to pick up. I've cleared level 12 and beaten the final boss, but I'll likely be playing more to get all the cheevos over time. Good game.