Cookie Clicker
Cookie Clicker is a Javascript-based browser video game written by French programmer Julien Thiennot, better known as "Orteil". The point of the game is to bake cookies as fast as possible, to have a large…
Cookie Clicker is an indie developed by Orteil, released 10 August 2013 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 1,318 hrs to finish.
What Cookie Clicker is
Cookie Clicker is an indie game developed by Orteil and released in 2013. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on Cordova.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Interpretatively, the closer you get to making more cookies than there are people to consume them, the more you turn the world into nothing but a race of sentient cookies, and aliens. The story can also be perceived as symbolism for corporations or monopolies getting carried-away, and forgetting all sense of their origins, or otherwise destroying their own foundations from within, when nothing but the next job/production is all that can be seen in life.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are business, comedy, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 637 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Cookie Clicker holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1,318 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 26,298 hrs, roughly 20 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbook class devices and 512 MB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Cookie Clicker launched on 10 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends and Saints Row IV. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends, Saints Row IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Cookie Clicker yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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