Inscryption is a rougelike deckbuilder by the Pony Island dev in which the Pony Island dev asks themself "What if I made a rougelike deckbuilder by the Pony Island dev". And yeah, the most concise way to summarize it is that it's a singleplayer deckbuilder by the Pony Island dev. Did I forget rougelike in that last sentence? No, but the game does indeed contain a rougelike deckbuilder tho, just don't go into it if that's all that you're expecting.

The "game by the Pony Island dev"ness is definitely as cheesy as ever, and some of it's antics are definitely like "Really, this shit now?", tho the game does start off with a pretty foreboding atmosphere for a bit. The game is a bit easy but engaging enough (took 5 runs to beat the rougelike), new mechanics are introduced and re-contextualized as you go through. But overall what I'm trying to say with all this is that you know what you're getting into. I thought it was cute, and that's about all it had to be. It's not much more, and it's not much less.