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One of the first clicker games (at least as I know of)

Pure addiction

Cookie Clicker game page

I don’t usually write about browser games, but let me tell you, Cookie Clicker is one of a few browser games that I played more than most of non browser pc games. Back in 2013., when this game was first released I remember how I spent hours every day clicking on a cookie and endlessly grinding for enough cookies to buy certain buildings and upgrades.

So let’s get to the review.

To talk about Cookie Clicker 2.0 you need to know about the basic game first. Cookie Clicker is very similar to other clicking games out there today.

You own a bakery and your dream is to bake the most cookies in the world and to be the very best in general. You start by clicking on a certain object, in this case a giant cookie. Each time you click on a cookie you get one point (in this game all points are baked cookies) and with enough points you can buy buildings. They give you cookies per second, and as you buy more of them, number of cookies you get per second also increases.

Besides building, you can also buy upgrades. Upgrades, as their name tells us, are used for upgrading buildings, number of cookies per clicking or upgrading cookies themselves. Upgrades get unlocked only by completing certain tasks, like owning a certain number of a specific building, or getting a certain amount of cookies.

There are also achievements, 251 normal ones, and special, shadow ones. As you get normal achievements, your milk level raises, increasing your overall cookies per click. Shadow achievements are super hard to get and they don’t give any milk. However, they are a great asset for you to brag about to your Cookie Clicker friends.

The best part is, you are not required to be on it all the time. You just leave one tab open with it gaining cookies every second, while you browse the internet, text with your friends or listening to music, and every now and then, you get back on it to buy new buildings and upgrades. If you count all the hours I spent on this game back then it would turn out to be at least a month, probably a few before I finally had enough and quit the game. And I was so excited to see it in an old but renewed suit.

As you heard about the basics of the game, it is time to talk about 2.0 upgrades.

As you know, with every update in games, the first thing developers do are bug fixes, and this game is no different. Ok, sometimes we just wish for them to do that, we plead, beg them on our knees for fixes, but that is another story related to some other games.

Besides bunch of bug fixes and stabilizations to the game, biggest upgrades are few new buildings and an ascension system.

Ascension system is basically a reset you can nowadays find in most of the clicker games. You start the game from a scratch but you get special type of points which you can use to get special upgrades. This is where a heavenly upgrade tree comes in. Before you enter a new game, you can chose to spend some or all of your special type of points called heavenly chips on special upgrades that affect your whole game experience. Special part about those upgrades is the system itself, which looks something similar to character skill tree in mmorpgs. From the beginning it branches into five directions, and as you get an upgrade from specific branch, that branch branches even more, therefore the name heavenly upgrade tree. This way the game gets less repetitive and benefits a lot on overall value.

If clicking cookies isn’t fun enough for you, there is, at least to me, another fun factor in this game, news reports. At the top of your screen there is something like a world news reports, similar to one in Plague Inc. First they start all serious, they talk about important events in the world and they inform you on how your bakery is doing in the world. But as you progress and buy building, upgrades and bake more cookies those news reports turns upside down and become the funniest thing in this game.

There are other, little things that make the game special and unique, like golden cookies. Every now and then, a golden cookie appears somewhere on your screen for a short period of time. If you can find it and click on it, you get a cookie bonus. Another thing is seasonal events. Currently, there is a Valentine day event. That is why there are a lot of hearts dropping alongside cookies, also, all of the golden cookies are shaped as hearts. There are more things that make this game special, but the best thing would be for you to try it yourself and share your thoughts on it.

Cookies 9/10 (Because Cake > Cookies)

For a browser game 11/10

For a clicker game 9/10

Overall impression 9.5/10

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