5 Years Later, One Game’s Blood Sacrifice Mechanic Still Haunts Me

Typically, when you’re playing a card game, the stakes aren’t that high. Perhaps you’ve got some money on the line. Maybe bragging rights are on the table. But even if you lose, largely speaking, things are going to be fine. Not so in 2021’s Inscryption, a deckbuilder horror game developed by Daniel Mullins Games and published by Devolver Digital, that starts with a haunted card game in a creepy cabin in the woods. But before long, you’ll be eyeing a pair of pliers and wondering which parts of your own body you can live without.