About Cookie Clicker

Cookie Clicker was something of a phenomenon a few years ago when it originally gained traction, and it's probably still the most popular idle game today. While it wasn't the original idle game, Cookie Clicker was definitely the game that brought the genre to a mainstream audience.

As you can guess, the goal of this game is to bake as many cookies as possible. At first, you can only bake cookies by manually clicking on the large cookie to the left of the window. This is a slow and tedious process, as every click only bakes one cookie. However, once you've made enough cookies this way, you can spend them on upgrades and buildings to help make them faster. As you acquire more and more assistance, the amount of cookies baked per second grows astronomically. Eventually, the number of cookies made every second becomes pretty insane, which is entirely intentional, and seeing how high you can get the numbers to go is part of the fun.

Points of Interest

This is a quirk of idle games in general, as they are essentially just something for you to watch and occasionally interact with. But, depending on what powerups you've acquired, the game will pretend to run after you close it. Thus, you can make progress without having the game open all the time. Its a bit weird, to be honest.

You unlock the gardening minigame by upgrading your farms with sugar lumps. In this minigame, you plant various crops that will provide bonuses for the main game. As an example, Bakers Wheat provides a flat boost to your overall output, while Thumbcorn helps you make more cookies with each click. You can also hybridize plants, eventually creating a large selection of seeds. This is surprisingly difficult to accomplish, but if you manage to unlock every seed, you can trade the full seed catalogue to the sugar hornets for a lot of sugar lumps. This also resets the minigame, but it may be worth it if you need more lumps.

Normally, when a game on Steam has achievements, I list it under Steam community features along with other features supplied by the Steam client. In this case however, both the Steam and the browser version of the game feature achievements, and earning them actually has an impact on your game. Every achievement you earn gives you milk, which in turn grants a sizable increase in productivity. Thus, you want to earn as many achievements as possible for the biggest boosts. There are all sorts of things that grant achievements, so try all sorts of things.