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Grubby Fingers

GRUBBY FINGERS is an experimental point-and-click game about scratching lottery tickets in a surreal gas station lost in the middle of nowhere. Explore a liminal gas station, listen to generative dark jazz, and solve a mystery or two while chasing your next big win.

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Developer
tober
Publisher
tober
Release
May 12, 2025
1 year and 81 days ago
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Positive25 reviews92.0%

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About the Game

Scratch away at your leisure and win big money while listening to some gloomy generative dark jazz! Who knows, maybe that locked door will open at some point and you can get out of this strange gas station in the middle of nowhere... 

Controls:
Look around with the mouse
Click to move
Press I to open and close the inventory
Esc for options and pause

Keep an eye on your energy bar on the bottom of the screen!

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I developed GRUBBY FINGERS over five years as a passion project. It is a game about scratching lottery tickets in a liminal gas station. While still being brutally honest about its bare-bones mechanics, it tries to hook players on the cheap thrills of small risks, big wins, and energy drinks. This meta-game uses a procedurally generated dark jazz soundtrack to lure players into exploring the eerie digital realm beyond the dopamine-fueled gameplay loop.  

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Emojis from OpenMoji are used in this game. They are licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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