Scratchers

Way too short and bugs that get in the way. After the first prestige the scratchers didn't go beyond a certain amount. The chance of winning is off... I did have a good time playing the game, but it's a hard sell. After one prestige I almost unlocked everything, I really had to try my best at not finishing earlier. The only reason my playtime is this high, is that I went to grab lunch and forgot the game was still on... Realistic game time would be less than 2 hours.

This clicker kinda fails to satisfy. Maybe for a dollar, but even then, I don't think I can recommend it.

would have probably finished it faster if my 2070super (which i thought wasn't even that bad) could run this at 60 fps but alas it was like 90% working just on this 1!!! idle game. music was chill tho

mid

Buggy and unbalanced. Some void upgrades don't work or don't work properly which can feel real bad if you choose one of those early. Relaunching or reloading a save causes massive lag due to scratchers being there that shouldn't and can cause some more upgrades to stop working. The jump in progression from getting a couple void upgrades is too much, does not feel balanced at all balancing. Its been about 2 months since the last 'bug fix' update, but there are still so many easily encounterable ones plaguing the game. The game was fun for the first half, but dragged on since my void upgrades bugged out. Looking at you winning numbers. Starting a new game kept my void upgrades and emeraldite....

Something about the math in this feels wrong, when you upgrade the amount of cards each of your "scratchers" are scratching, then they end up making more money per second than it costs to hire another one, so you max out almost straight away. Some of the prestige bonuses just don't actually apply to the game when bought. Once you buy the "clown" update, it glitches buying the idle scratchers and stacks a load of them in the top left corner, whilst not actually adding them to your total. When you play the cards from your collection, it only costs 4B, instead of 4T, the ore pack lowest win is 4.5 T. On the plus side, it costs less than a decent scratch card.

I want to recommend this game, I really do. It's cheap, it's charming, it's an interesting idea... but it's also undercooked, lacking a fair amount of polish. The first thing that'll immediately strike you is the fact that you can't 'click and drag' to scratch tickets, you have to manually click every single space. You can get this as a prestige upgrade... but this is one of those incremental games where you earn prestige currency at random through the gameplay process, and any normal currency you have is effectively worthless instead of being converted such as in other idle games - which isn't explained to you. Speaking of prestiges, you'll notice that there's a handy 'preview' button to see how much each prestige upgrade costs. That's nice... but it doesn't mark what you already have in that preview, meaning you have to cross-reference it with the little buttons for each prestige upgrade that line up along the right side of your screen. And, should you purchase all the prestige upg...

Graphics ☆☆ Sound ☆☆ Gameplay ☆☆ Story - Fun Factor ☆☆☆☆☆

[h2]Time / $:[/h2] Completed a full first run (all the way to the end credits, with all steam achievements) in 101 minutes, which means that this game was worth about $1.78/hr of first-run playtime. I didn't see any obvious features for replayability (I could start a new game, but why?). In general, I am pretty happy if the cost/hour-of-play ability is below $2/hr for games under $10, so I think the pricing is right on point for this game. By my own metrics, I would have been willing to pay $3.35. [h2]Pros[/h2]: for $3, it is a pretty solid game. The gameplay loop (scratch cards, earn points, unlock fancier cards) is pretty solid. Particle effects and sound effects give optimal dopamine. [h2]Cons: [/h2] It sometimes felt like I was playing two separate games: the card scratching game I signed up for, and a cookie-clicker-like idler that I didn't enjoy as much. There also are some glitches, and some typos / partially implemented updates. There are a bunch of places on the booster pa...

Poorly implemented UI, ESC doesn't work and the loading ofcards/menus is sloooooow. Some cards close quicker than others (this becomes really irritating because its all about clicking and closing the cards). Too random, you can just lose 5 minutes of playtime to bad luck. Same boring muzak that other incrementals are using. It's cheap but it should be cheaper.