True to its name, Cookie Clicker is a game in which you click on a giant cookie. Doing so generates cookies, which function as an in-game currency; with these cookies, you can buy various structures which automatically produce further cookies for you (fingers that click the cookie for you every few seconds, grandmothers who ceaselessly bake cookies, cookie farms which …
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True to its name, Cookie Clicker is a game in which you click on a giant cookie. Doing so generates cookies, which function as an in-game currency; with these cookies, you can buy various structures which automatically produce further cookies for you (fingers that click the cookie for you every few seconds, grandmothers who ceaselessly bake cookies, cookie farms which grow cookies from cookie seeds, etc.) or upgrades to these structures that magnify their output. The cost of new structures is prohibitive at first, but as you invest in your infrastructure, your CPS (cookies per second) spirals ever higher. Producing vast amounts of cookies or building huge armies of slave grandmas completes achievements, which add bonus multipliers to your cookie production, all of which feeds into itself in a vast, greedy, cookie-themed tornado of capital-accumulation and Scrooge McDuck-style cookie-hoarding... but in the end, you have to ask yourself, "Why?" The game's final form requires you to generate cookies for an absurd amount of time, but the final payoff, when it arrives, is well worth it.
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