Inscryption, the popular roguelike card-builder developed by Daniel Mullins Games, will be receiving a free update on Thursday called Kaycee’s Mod. Debuting first as an open beta back in December 2021, the self-described “mini-expansion” will be ready for download tomorrow on Steam.
What is in Inscryption Kaycee’s Mod?
Since the game’s launch, Daniel Mullins Games has received a substantial amount of feedback from fans who wanted an endless mode for the intense, creepy, and wondrous Part 1 of the game that features the iconic Leshy. While the other chapters of Inscryption introduce variations on the card game’s ruleset, Part 1 has no problems existing as it own standalone mode, and that’s exactly what the developer believes as well, as said in a blog post for Kaycee’s Mod:
“Kaycee’s Mod is a free mini-expansion for Inscryption that hacks Leshy’s Cabin into an endless, and increasingly challenging, roguelike. Apply different skulls to your run to ascend the Challenge Levels. Reaching new levels unlocks new cards, challenges, and dev logs inscribed by the late Kaycee Hobbes as she uncovered the secrets on the disk.”
Publisher Devolver Digital warns in a tweet that Kaycee’s Mod “will arrive to wreck your waking hours this Thursday, March 17.”
The Kaycee’s Mod update also includes several additional rare cards, a few new items, balance changes, a final encounter for those who reach past Challenge Level 12, and the rest of Kaycee’s dev logs. For those uninitiated, Kaycee is the name of an in-game programmer who first discovered that the Inscryption game you’re playing has a strange secret buried within it. She attempts to reveal that secret using a “mod” of her own design, her success likely being revealed through the dev logs you’ll find throughout the mode.
Kaycee’s Mod was nominated at the 22nd GDC Awards for Game of the Year, Best Design, and Innovation. Many fans wish to see Inscryption ported over to other consoles, though some parts of the game are intrinsic to the PC platform.
In other news, the studio behind the Perfect Dark reboot has lots much of its development team over the last year, and Xbox Game Pass will be receiving new games like Shredders and F1 2021 this month.
