Inscryption

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Inscryption

Short description

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Developer
Daniel Mullins Games
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Release
Tue, Oct 19, 2021
Price
$19.99
Reviews
135,706
Positive
97%
Followers
132,287
Owners (estimated)
2M – 5M
Concurrent players
1,301
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards
Tags
Card Battler Card Game Story Rich Deckbuilding Horror Dark Puzzle Rogue-lite Strategy Rogue-like Psychological Surreal Experimental First-Person Point & Click 3D 2D Pixel Graphics FMV Adventure
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$100msomewhere between $54.3m and $100m · roughly 2.7M–5M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $19.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

83 data points since Jul 25, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$98.6m → ~$100m
Reviews 133,889 → 135,706
Followers 130,792 → 132,287
Concurrent players 1,301 → 1,301
Price $7.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 96.8% → 96.8%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 137 further data points reach back to Sep 24, 2021 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.

Lowest recorded price: $5.99 on Dec 8, 2025.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Inscryption is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Card Battler + Card Game + Story Rich

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