Cookie Clicker at best is a mix bag, and at worst is fundamentally terrible designed. The graphics are incredible clean and very well done, with tons of colours and it has a very good sense of humor, with references and or "news" that would somewhat make you forget all of the monotony of the game. And thats all of the good, now i played tons of idle games and very few stands out for me,Cookie Clicker at best is a mix bag, and at worst is fundamentally terrible designed. The graphics are incredible clean and very well done, with tons of colours and it has a very good sense of humor, with references and or "news" that would somewhat make you forget all of the monotony of the game. And thats all of the good, now i played tons of idle games and very few stands out for me, especially the ones that involves some strategy and most important, make you do something. and this one despite being one of the most influential ones, is also one the worst of its genre imo. Is not only just repetitive and tedious to progress (despite being somewhat addictive at the beginning), but it gets even worse later in the game, where you have to pray every time you get the best golden cookies bonus along with the hand of fate magic. If the RNG screws you up just one time, you can waste like 1 hour or more, and you have to wait again for the magic to refill. I cant believe that this game depends all of the time just with one broken mechanic that depends so heavily on low chances.
The game has offline progression, but only with an upgrade. Why is locked?!
The game by itself is very padded, and while i admit is very satisfactory unlocking new buildings, upgrades and rewards, since the amount of cookies to ascend just increases a lot after playing for a while, just isnt worth the frustration.
Idle games were never for everyone, but even me, that im never be a big fan of this genre, i find some ones that were very good (and didnt remind me that im playing an idle game). Sometimes, while i saw all the praise of this game and no criticism at all, i dont know if its supposed to be one of that kind of "joke games".
And if this wasnt enough, the steam version isnt free despite being the same as the browser one, except it has soundtrack. The soundtrack by itself.... is.... VERY GOOD! It captures the esence of the game in the perfect moments, although to be honest it should be come with the base free game, a lot of free idle/flash games comes with music... so i cannot really praise it...
Overall, it could be much better, even in Steam there was much better idle games for free. The real problem of this game is the slow progression starting to half game and the monotonous it can be. A lot of people talk about how Cookie Clicker changes a lot with time, but having played this game like 6 months, yeah, you unlock some minigames, a new currency, a lot of new upgrades, the ascension, etc etc etc, but it comes very late and it isnt worth it since a lot of the minigames are useless and the sugar lumps it takes a lot of time to obtain some and the ascension system is very padded. It reallllllyyyyy shouldnt depend all of the time in the golden cookie mechanic, this was the origin of all the progression problems, the main issue of the game by far.… Expand
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