Sketchy's Contract

Sketchy's Contract is a co-op sci-fi horror looting game set in a mysterious asteroid belt. You travel alone or with friends to exotic planets, gather materials and loot, fight alien lifeforms, and take on other activities including running a burger shop, playing arcade mini games and decorating your apartment and ship.

Story quests

The game is not story-driven, but it has an optional linear story told through Story Quests. Follow them from planet to planet to search for Memory Fragments and uncover the story involving Sketchy. Completing the quests rewards you with a golden flamingo trophy.

Suit progression

Loot earns XP, which lets you level up and spend points at the Suit Modifier. You can adjust attributes such as Health, Attack Power and Stamina, as well as improve gathering skills. These upgrades help you face the game's dangerous enemies and gather resources more efficiently.

Contracts and the Night Shift

On a planet, you can choose to leave before night or stay for the Night Shift. Staying gives you access to more valuable loot, but also brings more dangerous enemies and the risk of a Team Wipe.

Loot is needed to meet your quota. You can dig up hidden treasure, mine ore and harvest herbs with a single click, or hunt creatures and loot their corpses. Some creatures can be picked up, while others need to be shrunk with a shrink ray to make them light enough to carry.

Security levels

Planet maps are divided into difficulty-based areas called Security Levels. Access crates scattered around the map can contain codes that unlock new levels, where you can find more valuable loot and higher-security access crates.

The burger shop

You can restock certain loot on the shelves in the Burger Shop's inventory room to build progress toward perks. These include the ability to cook burgers and brew coffee, as well as access to a Black Market Vendor. The vendor appears randomly on planets during each contract, depending on planetary conditions, and sells powerful but expensive weapons and utility items.

Cooking a burger instantly restores your health to full, then heals you over 30 minutes; it also increases your damage by 10% for that duration. The Black Market Vendor perk gives you a 30% discount. Aliens visit the shop and consume some of its inventory when they order food, so maintaining its stock is part of keeping these optional perks.

Rewards and customization

Completing contracts earns credits, arcade coins and gotcha coins. You can use these to buy player skins and furniture for your apartment and ship, or play mini games at the arcade. The apartment has over 100 unlockable decorations, and collected creature corpses can be displayed as trophies. A loot converter machine turns collected loot into furniture, so it is not lost in a contract wipe.