You don’t need to click anymore! You’ve made real progress. But after a few upgrades the game is suddenly generating 5 or maybe even 10 cookies per second, all on its own. So at first Cookie Clicker is a game of furiously clicking your mouse. For 100 cookies you can buy a grandma that bakes a cookie every 2 seconds. At first you have to do it by hand - click the mouse, bake a cookie.īut for just 15 cookies you can buy a cursor that will click the cookie automatically, generating a cookie every 10 seconds. The game revolves and baking cookies, and spending said cookies on upgrades that help you bake even more cookies. “Cookie Clicker, the latest and greatest Idle Game, probably achieves the best balance of power yet. With the sword, a previously-hidden set of menus appear, letting you go on a quest through a forest (animated via more ASCII art), view your inventory, and more. I thought this was just a little browser-based economic game” you might ask yourself. Just when you think you have them figured out.Įarly on in Candy Box can buy a wooden sword with some of your candy.

But Idle Games also appeal due to a not-so-hidden undercurrent of weirdness that pervades them. This alone is enough to generate addictive feelings of mathematical progress. Billions? Trillions? Quadrillions? You’ll be dealing with numbers this big and bigger in no-time, with no indication of when (or if) it stops.Ĭandy Box, Cookie Clicker and other Idle Games seem perfectly tuned to keep escalating exponentially, seemingly forever. The numbers grow so big that they begin displaying in scientific notation, just a few days or a week in. A store will sell you items that cost hundreds of thousands of lollipops or even millions of lollipops. You’ll eventually be producing 30,000 lollipops per second. One per day… one per hour… one per second.Īfter around an hour, if you keep buying and reinvesting lollipops you’ll be “harvesting” 100 lollipops per second from your farm, and you’ll look back and laugh when you only got one per minute and had to buy it by hand.īut it just keeps going. The more you plant, the faster they grow. You can plant your purchased lollipops on a lollipop farm, which then lets you grow your own lollipops - no need to trade with the sketchy salesman. But here’s the thing -Īfter this, the game’s math starts to get a little bit. There’s no indication of what it’s all for, or if it’s even leading to anything. Just a slowly incrementing candy counter and a weird dude selling seemingly pointless lollipops. So you can essentially trade for one lollipop per minute. YouTube stats: 24,136 views and 191 comments for top 50 videos uploaded last week, 11 new videos uploaded yesterday.After you have 60 candies (ie after one minute) a lollipop salesman (built out of more ASCII art) appears, offering to sell you a lollipop for 60 of your candies. Peak concurrent players yesterday: 10,767 Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean Genre: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy This is the official version for Steam.ĭeveloper: Orteil, DashNet Publisher: Playsaurus

An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then.

Cookie clocker