Games like Scratch the Ticket
If Scratch the Ticket is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pibcremental, Bills Must Be Paid and The Deconsecration Initiative — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Scratch the Ticket: Scratch the Ticket is a first‑person incremental gambling sim where every ticket is a test of nerves. Print tickets, scratch cells, and decide: cash out now or risk it all. The outcome depends only on your choice.
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Steam players who put hours into Scratch the Ticket also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Pibcremental
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Top pick for Scratch the Ticket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
A cozy, chaotic idle-incremental clicker about growing a civilisation of tiny creatures called Pibbles in a giant tree, set in a post-human world.
Bills Must Be Paid
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Second-strongest match for Scratch the Ticket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
You're broke, smash piggy banks, bills must be paid. A short active incremental game. Get money, upgrade, and get debt free!
The Deconsecration Initiative
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Third-strongest match for Scratch the Ticket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
A short incremental game about building a weapon to kill a god. Build your base, fire your laser, collect shards, Barry has turned into a slug. Upgrade your slugs.
Mergeopolis
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Ranked #4 for Scratch the Ticket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
Merge matching buildings to grow a tiny island into a thriving city. Plan residential, commercial, industrial, and civic districts, reinvest their income, unlock more land, and build at your own pace in this relaxing incremental city builder.
Sandwich +1
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Ranked #5 for Scratch the Ticket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scratch the Ticket.
Your sandwiches are getting out of hand. Stack food towers, sell them off to drinks with faces, and eventually hire flying workers until they're doing all the clicking. One evening, and a real ending.
Shard Cycle
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Ranked #6 for Scratch the Ticket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Scratch the Ticket.
Shard Cycle is an incremental prospecting game about getting richer and stronger. Sweep your cursor through fields of thousands of crystals, spend your drops on upgrades, and unlock effects that shatter hundreds at once. Dig deeper for rarer, tougher crystals. Watch your numbers climb.
Greediest Landlord
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Ranked #7 for Scratch the Ticket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
Become a Dark Landlord in this Incremental game to purge human settlements in your domain. Convert trespassers into fuel for your dark arts. Cast plagues, drain souls, raise legions of minions, and expand your corrupted land to unleash chaos. Invoke the Dark God to reclaim your solitude once more
Fast Food Fortune
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Ranked #8 for Scratch the Ticket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Fast Food Fortune is a casual restaurant sim where you take a restaurant from the brink of financial ruin to a fast food fortune. Buy upgrades, update your restaurant, hire staff, and manage your way to the top of the fast food chain.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Scratch the Ticket at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Scratch the Ticket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under Scratch the Ticket on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scratch the Ticket.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Scratch the Ticket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Scratch the Ticket on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scratch the Ticket.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Scratch the Ticket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under Scratch the Ticket on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Scratch the Ticket.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under Scratch the Ticket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Scratch the Ticket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scratch the Ticket.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Scratch the Ticket.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Scratch the Ticket.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scratch the Ticket.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scratch the Ticket.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Scratch the Ticket.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Scratch the Ticket.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Scratch the Ticket.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scratch the Ticket.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Scratch the Ticket
- Does Scratch the Ticket run on Steam Deck?
- Scratch the Ticket is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Scratch the Ticket cost?
- Scratch the Ticket is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Scratch the Ticket?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scratch the Ticket are Pibcremental, Bills Must Be Paid, The Deconsecration Initiative.
- Who developed Scratch the Ticket?
- Scratch the Ticket was developed by Shilenok and published by Spaghetti Cat.
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