Extremely addictive progression loop
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Watching meaningless numbers climb is strangely addictive!”
Steam review · 5634.9 h played ↗
Cookie Clicker
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%Orteil, DashNet2021Incremental · Idler · Casual
The verdict
The definitive idle clicker: addictive, funny and deep, with hundreds of achievements. Skip it if you dislike slow grinds, need offline progress, or want a Steam version newer than the free browser one.
Great for
Idle-game fans and achievement hunters who want something to run in the background while doing other things
Main risk
Progress becomes a very slow grind that stalls without lucky golden cookie combos, and offline production is weak
What players love
Huge achievement list and long-term goals
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Best incremental game and a ton of achievements.”
Steam review · 71.4 h played ↗
Great to leave running in the background
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Fun and well made game to idle when you're away or doing anything on your computer. Fun to upgrade and doesn't lag your pc at all while idling.”
Steam review · 21.5 h played ↗
Surprising depth: minigames, ascension, strategy
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“there's a lot of nuance with the minigames, ascensions and trying to maximise your cookie gains.”
Steam review · 139 h played ↗
Defining classic of the idle genre
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“A game that defined a genre, with phenomenal music and progression, and dirt cheap for the hours you'll spend ACTIVELY playing.”
Steam review · 95.8 h played ↗
Charming art, humor and writing
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“beautiful sprite-work and mind-boggling amount of amusing flavor text”
Steam review · 49.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Slow, grindy progression and boredom
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Progression is honestly way too slow. It doesn't feel good.”
Steam review · 317 h played ↗
Achievement hunting is brutally long
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“Great until you wanna 100% it. May only god help you then.”
Steam review · 695.8 h played ↗
Progress hinges on lucky golden cookie combos
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews
“it just becomes a simulator of getting extremely lucky in comboing the golden cookie multipliers, because without doing so you'd just be stuck in one place.”
Steam review · 144.7 h played ↗
Steam version older than free browser version
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“Version is somehow older than the browser version. I cannot import my browser save.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
No offline cookie production
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“the inability to grind while offline requires your device to be on and playing Cookie Clicker non-stop in order to make progress.”
Steam review · 103.5 h played ↗
Visual bugs and tiny unscalable text
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews
“the steam version is so visually buggy it is unplayable”
Steam review · 270.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable350 MB
Minimum
OSMicrosoft® Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows 8 Classic
Processor2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbook class devices
Memory512 MB RAM
Storage350 MB available space
OSMicrosoft® Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows 8 Classic
Processor2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbook class devices
Memory512 MB RAM
Storage350 MB available space
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