Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “Inkborn”. Inkborn is a roguelike deckbuilder with a card system built around chaining Glyph-based combos. Sequence your cards in tactical combat to unleash impactful effects. Customize your Skill Tree before each run, evolve new abilities and uncover the hidden story of a world folded in ink, metal and paper.
Shaped by decades of card-flipping, joystick-clacking, and sleepless nights chasing high scores, few games in recent memory have blended tactile brilliance quite like Inkborn. Within its hand-crafted, origami-inspired world, every encounter unfolds as a dance of strategy and surprise. Here, a roguelike deckbuilder is reimagined: rather than rote plays, clever chaining of Glyph-based card combos delivers a refreshing tactical edge against a dreamlike menagerie of enemies. Each run sweeps you through winding, paper-strewn realms teeming with tension, where decisions about which path to take or combo to execute ripple with consequence. Inkborn’s signature is its rich layering—a vibrant cardpool, unlockable abilities, town-building progression, and ingenious special attacks ignited by sequence, not repetition. Every bout feels hard-fought, every victory earned by wit and timing, all set against a sketched tapestry where ink runs not just in veins, but in the fate of the world itself.
Developer: Acram Digital
Publisher: Acram Digital
Genre: Strategy, Card Game, Roguelike, Deckbuilder, Early Access, Casual, Indie
Release Date: 28 Jul, 2025
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows, Android, iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Link: Steam
Review copy was provided.
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