this game drives me fucking crazy. the first portion with the sacrifice deck building mechanics is geniunely fantastic, a wonderfully simple deckbuilder that knows exactly what it wants to do and does it well. it constantly forces you to make difficult choices about sacrificing cards, and no challenge ever feels insurmountable. also, the games visual style in this potion is wonderful, and it builds a wonderful b horror ish atmosphere by keeping you in the dark about its twisted jumanji ish plot. HOWEVER, the game vomits over itself after this. Once you beat the first portion, the game pivots to multiple different, much worse games that clearly have way less thought put into their mechanics. the second section lacks any sort of interesting choice or challenge, and i brute forced my way through the whole thing with almost zero thought. all of the intrigue that the game builds up comes crashing down as soon as the game tries to explain itself, and the gameplay kneecaps itself in service of a completely insulting abjectly awful story, which has the subtlety and "psychological horror" cred of a 2008 creepypasta written by a 7th grader. im geniunely fascinated as to what caused these people, who are capable of making an AWESOME game (see part 1), to think this story is in any way interesting. ive read back of the cereal box riddles that were better told than the plot of inscryption. I still would recommend this game at a sale, because man if the first 40 percent is not amazing. This game just also drives me crazy, because it completely refuses to keep any of the momentum it created for itself and makes me kind of hate the parts of it that i liked in some way.