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Keely Brown, Mat Belanger · Published by Keely Brown
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Chicken Scratch is a quirky multiplayer drawing game with broken telephone mechanics. Play with up to 7 of your friends as bird co-workers trying to keep your job at Chicken Scratch. Work together on confusing cases where you'll be drawing, captioning and then trying to guess the original meaning.
Join your feathered colleagues in Chicken Scratch for a casual multiplayer adventure where teamwork and creativity are key. Draw, caption, and guess the original meaning in this unique broken telephone style game.
About this game
Chicken Scratch is a quirky multiplayer drawing game with broken telephone mechanics. Play with up to 7 of your friends as bird co-workers trying to keep your job at Chicken Scratch Incorporated. Work together on confusing cases where you'll be drawing, captioning and then trying to figure out what the original meaning was.
Each day starts with each player receiving a strange prompt to draw which will become muddled as other players have to either interpret, copy, flip, morph, blend, improve or contribute to it:
Eventually another player will have to try to guess what the original prompt was from a series of options:
The closer you are to the right answer, the more birdbucks you'll earn. Make enough birdbucks and you might just make it all the way through Friday without getting fired by Mr. Talons - your greedy and overbearing eagle boss!
Key Features:
-12 colourful birds to play as, each with their own drawing colour
-An endless variety of randomly generated prompts
-Stackable hats
-Online multiplayer lobby system with public and private rooms
-Presentation phase with wacky stickers you can stick on your friends' drawings
Planned Features:
-More types of game modes
-More types of cases
-GIF generation for exporting your best telephone chains to share with your friends
-Integrating streamer support
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 8.1
- Processor: Intel iCore i5
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- VR Support: None
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
June 28th Demo Update
-Changed the wording of fade tooltip. -Improved the readability of snag warnings. -Birdbucks can no longer go into the negative when getting distributed. -The amount of experience you need for an unlock has been knocked down to 350 rather than 1000. -Blender has been made less brutal. -Tried to make lobby text a bit easier to read. -Added a label for birdbucks in the shop to make it clearer that it's your personal birdbucks, not shared. -Accolades show for a bit longer at the end of the game. -Overtime time accelerations now only happen after a challenge rather than being things that show up on the wheel. -Overtime time accelerations were not actually doing anything to task time. -Transition jingles were made into music so they are now also affected by music volume settings. -Task preview will show the words you are about to draw to give you some time to plan before starting a task. -Hopefully fixed issue with guess words sometimes not being selectable. -Limited the number of sketches that players can send to a single player to prevent spamming. -Guessing words have more information in the presentation now. -Improved the UX of stoplight to be easier to understand. -Hopefully fixed issue that could happen if someone tries to join when the countdown starts. -Guesses will always distribute to everyone properly now. -Hopefully restart day should be more stable now? -Increased size of font for the cash register snag tooltips. -Increased size of font for the TV screen item tooltips. -Removed "effect" tooltip from contract clause. -Time penalty warning box now is the correct size.Read full article on Community Announcements (bkeely1992)
