Whaa? are you serious?

[Shedding]

Ok, someone run by me how this game works, and how it is massively successful in steam. Now I am curious. Click click?

[Eugene Glovak]

Keep clicking the big cookie. You'll figure out what to do next.

[The Renderer]

He doesn't have the game.

Do a little research into idle games, aka clicker games, it's a whole genre. And, to be honest, they're not really games, just programs designed to exploit our tendency to like numbers going up for no reason.

[Oberik]

It's an incremental game. You make numbers go up. Loads of actual "games" are pretty much the same thing, cookie clicker is just a raw version of it.

Any kind of management game as an example: Make population go up. Make money go up.

[Paintbrush Poltergeist]

Originally posted by The Renderer:

He doesn't have the game.

Neither do you...

[Core]

Try it for yourself: https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ :)
The web version is basically the same, and free

[Shedding]

LOL.. just clicking. not my cup of tea. Thank you.

[ワレアオバ]

Originally posted by Hello! I'm a Ghost:

Originally posted by The Renderer:

He doesn't have the game.

Neither do you...

so? whats your point?

[Dex]

Originally posted by Shedding:

LOL.. just clicking. not my cup of tea. Thank you.

understandable. For me it's just a nice little game to have open in the background while i'm doing other work. it's fun seeing the numbers go up lol

[Paintbrush Poltergeist]

Originally posted by flattie:

Originally posted by Hello! I'm a Ghost:

Neither do you...

so? whats your point?

What was his point?

[Sniff1234]

it provides the same dopamine hits that you would get by lvling up in an rpg and seeing numbers go up. instead of grinding for xp you just leave the game running and it does all the work automatically, you come back every so often and click a few upgrades and move on.

[JG | Luxe]

Originally posted by Shedding:

Ok, someone run by me how this game works, and how it is massively successful in steam. Now I am curious. Click click?

It's a classic.

[AnonTwo]

Think of it this way

If you don't think there's enough action, then run it side by side your normal content

All day

All the time.

It doesn't have to be the main thing you get up to do every day. Just a downtime, or a number to look at every now and then

It's cheap busywork that is technically free (if you just play the web version). No Freemium mechanics. No expansion packs. Just click.

You don't think it's good enough to compete with what you're playing? That's fine. Just play both. Cookie Clicker requires so little focus depending on what you want that you don't have to focus if you don't want to.

[2ndForm]

You click the cookie to get more cookies so you can get more grandmas to get more cookies so you can get more buildings so you can get more cookies so you can tear apart the fabric of time and space so you can get more cookies and make pacts and make sacrifices to the dark gods to get more cookies and you just click the cookie man click it already then you click it again its so simple you gotta click the cookie to get the cookies for the cookies.

And it's really just that simple.

It's really not that complicated.