Scritchy Scratchy vs Descent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scritchy Scratchy
Experience the thrill of scratching cards in this incremental game where luck and strategy lead to glittering riches. Uncover rare symbols, boost your odds, and unlock a helpful bot to automate scratching. Choose your path to victory, from steady gains to explosive jackpots, or reset your progress for permanent advantages.
- Variety of scratch cards
- Unlockable Scratch Bot
- Luck-boosting upgrades
- Permanent Prestige upgrades
- Risk vs. reward mechanics
- Incremental gameplay
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Scritchy Scratchy is a super-satisfying scratch card incremental game where luck is your weapon, and glittering riches are just a scratch away. Dive into a growing collection of scratchers, each with its own quirks, surprises, and sometimes downsides. Rip through tickets, uncover rare symbols, tweak your own luck, and chase absurd payouts. Unlock Scratch Bot, your tireless mechanical friend who scratches and reveals the rewards for you. Turn your run into a full-blown jackpot engine as your balance shoots through the roof while you sit back and relax. As you prosper, you’ll unlock upgrades that twist luck in your favor: • Boosted odds and payouts • Faster and easier scratching • New scratch card variants with unique rules But power always comes with risk. Some cards tempt you with monstrous payouts at the cost of nasty penalties. Some offer steady income… others threaten your entire run. Will you play like a sensible adult or gamble like a degenerate in a neon casino? When you’re ready for even more madness, Prestige to reset your run, gather Jack Points, and spend them on permanent upgrades that reshape your strategy. Build your own luck engine: Slow and steady, wildly explosive, or pure chaos.
Descent
Embark on an old-school mining adventure on your iPhone. Dig through six unique strata, collecting increasingly valuable ores as you descend. Upgrade your rig, strategically use dynamite, and uncover buried secrets to find your way home.
- Six unique strata to explore
- Collect various ores including gold and platinum
- Upgrade drill, fuel, cargo, hull, and engine
- Use dynamite for difficult rock
- Discover buried bones for rewards
- Offline play with autosave
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Descent is an old-school mining game, made for iPhone. • Six strata with unique characteristics • Ore gets richer with depth: iron, copper, silver, gold, platinum — and Descentium, the rare guidance ore that opens the way home • Five rig systems to upgrade: drill, fuel tank, cargo bay, hull, engine • Dynamite... for when the rock disagrees with you • Insurance: rescues aren't free! • Buried bones scattered in the deep: assemble the whole skeleton for a payout • Bring 3 Descentium and $150,000 to the launch pad, to complete the game • Autosaves constantly; pick any run back up where you left it • Fully offline. No ads. No in-app purchases. • Game Center and iCloud sync are optional: achievements, leaderboards, and your save on every device The ore gets richer the deeper you go. So does everything trying to stop you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Descent at none against Scritchy Scratchy's 1. Descent also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and price ($1.99 vs $6.99). Scritchy Scratchy's advantage is ratings volume (2.7K vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Scritchy Scratchy costs $6.99 and Descent $1.99 up front. Scritchy Scratchy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Descent asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Scritchy Scratchy against 5.0 for Descent. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scritchy Scratchy has 2.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Scritchy Scratchy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Descent's.
Scritchy Scratchy ships an update every 3 days, Descent every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scritchy Scratchy | Descent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (2.7K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 443 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Funday Games ApS | Cartographer ApS |
Customer experience
Scritchy Scratchy
Descent
In-app purchases
Scritchy Scratchy
- Supporter Edition: Golden Gear$2.99
Descent
No in-app purchases
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