I don't like deck builder games. I didn't like Inscryption. I persevered with it because I loved the vibe and loved Pony Island, but I found the first hour or so really slow. Like, being awful at the card stuff felt like it was actively preventing me from getting into the other, more interesting aspects of the game.

Turns out, this was all part of the plan. Slowly but surely Inscryption begins to reveal itself and, in the process of doing so, masterfully teaches you the rules of the card game that make up the backbone of it and, crucially, how to break them.

At first I thought Inscryption's greatest achievement was getting me, the card game disliker, to really enjoy and engage with deeper mechanics in a deck builder game. What it actually achieved is leaving me sat here, post-credits, genuinely not sure where the game ends and where real life begins.