Inscryption
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (18%); after 10h it's 1 in 60 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised less than in 77% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 93% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 150,217 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 16.3h for positive, 10.6h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (93.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (40)
story milestone ending side
- Blood Artist Complete your first Deathcard. 100%
- Miner's Bane Defeat The Prospector. 97%
- Innocuous Insect Free a Stinkbug from the safe. 94%
- Grizzled Angler Defeat The Angler. 87%
- Uncage the Menagerie Free the Wolf Statue from its cage. 85%
- Face to Face Defeat The Trapper and The Trader. 78%
- Ancestral Vision Fill your empty socket with something magical. 77%
- Reborn Hope Find a spare film roll. 76%
- Enduring Victory Defeat Leshy. 75%
- Renewal Start a new game. 70%
- Squirrel Wrangler Win a battle with damage from Squirrels. 60%
- Avenging Druid Complete the Temple of Beasts. 59%
- Doomed Necromancer Complete the Temple of the Dead. 58%
- Accomplished Automaton Complete the Temple of Technology. 56%
- Wizard Mentor Complete the Temple of Magicks. 56%
- Balance of Power Allow P03 to gain control of Inscryption. 55%
- Rank and File Defeat The Archivist. 47%
- Essence Capture Defeat The Photographer. 47%
- Painter's Servant Defeat The Unfinished Boss. 45%
- Natural Connection Defeat G0lly. 44%
- Murder Witness the death of P03. 44%
- Dramatic Finale Complete the finale of Inscryption. 44%
- Gruesome Encore Allow The Mycologists to experiment on a creature that is already itself an experiment. 27%
- Rookie Mistake Make 10 misplays in a single Kaycee's Mod run. 24%
- Dubious Challenge Clear Challenge Level 1 in Kaycee's Mod. 20%
- Role Reversal Steal back one of your creatures from The Angler. 18%
- Forgotten Lore Receive all 5 cards from The Trader in P03's factory. 16%
- Dark Offering Make an offering to The Bonelord. 15%
- Grim Bounty Destroy a Level 3 Bounty Hunter card. 15%
- Taunting Challenge Clear Challenge Level 4 in Kaycee's Mod. 13%
- Roar of Challenge Clear Challenge Level 8 in Kaycee's Mod. 9.2%
- Pulling Teeth Pull out 32 teeth in Kaycee's Mod. 7.5%
- Collective Effort Collect every card in the Original Inscryption. 7.5%
- Rise to the Challenge Clear Challenge Level 12 in Kaycee's Mod. 6.7%
- Devil's Play Attack for over 666 damage in the Original Inscryption. 5.8%
- Start // Finish Complete a run with every Starter Deck in Kaycee's Mod. 4.9%
- Agonizing Remorse Don't empty the Recycling Bin. 3.7%
- Bad Moon Defeat Leshy in Kaycee's Mod without destroying The Moon. 3.6%
- Master Trinketeer Unlock all 3 items from the oil painting in Kaycee's Mod. 3.3%
- Skull Storm Complete a run with every Challenge active in Kaycee's Mod. 2.9%