Cookie Clicker

An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

Cookie Clicker is a clicker, idler and casual game developed by Orteil and DashNet and published by Playsaurus.
Released on September 01st 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 74,170 reviews of which 71,736 were positive and 2,434 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Microsoft® Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows 8 Classic
  • Processor: 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbook class devices
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Storage: 350 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X v11, and above
  • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core M
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Storage: 450 MB available space

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Dec. 2024
I thought i was free. I thought i was free from this wretched game. I played it in middle school. I played it in high school. and then i forgot about it. then steam recommended it to me again. the cycle repeats. forever, i fear. there is no end. there is no peace. only cookie
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Sept. 2024
This is possibly the BEST game i have EVER played, nearly 1000 hours spent on pure joy. Please for the love of god if you have 7.50 AUD you NEED this game RIGHT NOW, please buy it, not sponsored or anything i just fucking love this game so much i left my wife to play it more often
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Aug. 2024
Dont do it dont play this game its addicting the constant strive for completion is a trap and god help you if you try to achieve perfection without cheating this game is the closest youll get to how sisyphus feels whilst still having an end the end is a trap the ending will lead to you striving for more this is worse than torture good game
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May 2024
Browser game's still up and free, but this game sparked a genre and still is leagues above most other idle games, so it's worth dropping a few bucks to pay respect and keep improvements coming. I played the browser game for a decade, and now I'm gonna play both the browser and desktop versions for another decade. The quest for 100% Achievements continues, the Grandmatriarchs must be appeased. 🍪
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March 2024
I may not be the most attentive or pay the most attention when I play some video games but Cookie Clicker is one of the first video games I’ve had an experience like this with a game before..It all started when I had seen a steam listing for Cookie Clicker a game just at the small price of $5. I had purchased my game and installed it like any other except everything felt different with this one. I had opened the Game just for As soon as I pressed play, my peripheral vision narrowed entirely to the game as soon as I pressed the “Play” button on steam. The first few hours were a blur. Click, click, click. My finger a blur against the mouse, amassing a digital fortune like a one-man gold rush. Soon, I was enlisting the help of a legion of cursors, little pixelated hands that tirelessly clicked away, freeing me for more strategic pursuits. Grandma’s sweet, sweet slave labor? Hired. Farms? Bought. Wizard towers? Swaggin. The very fabric of everything around me bent under the weight of my burgeoning cookie empire. Days turned into weeks. Sleep became a quaint notion, replaced by the hypnotic symphony of the clicking cursors. The outside world faded into a distant memory. My landlord's increasingly frantic pleas about rent? Irrelevant. The ominous rumble of the tow truck dude repossessing my car? A minor inconvenience. Who needs a car when you have a CPS (cookies per second) rate that would make any billionaire jealous? Some people around me didn't understand just how important and REAL these cookies were, while the "real" world chugged along, blissfully unaware of the true currency revolution happening on my screen. I tried, bless my heart, to enlighten them. The cashier at the grocery store simply stared blankly when I offered a trillion cookies for a carton of milk. My attempts to pay rent with "certified digital cookies" (erm… very official-sounding, I might add btw) were met with a restraining order. :( But! Their ignorance only fueled my resolve. I clicked faster, harder, becoming a one-man sweatshop of le cookie production. The numbers on my screen grew so large they started to resemble cryptic religious texts. Surely, someone, somewhere, would recognize the true potential of my digital fortune. Then came the existential dread. One quiet (well, quiet for a basement filled with clicking cursors) afternoon, I looked at the ever-growing cookie count and a horrifying thought struck me – what now? I had conquered the game, achieved clicker nirvana, and all I had to show for it was a mountain of virtual cookies and a throbbing carpal tunnel. With a sigh that could have powered a small village, I shut down the computer. Stepping outside for the first time in what felt like a geological epoch, I blinked at the harsh sunlight. The world seemed… normal. People going about their day, completely unaware of the cookieverse I'd just single-handedly dominated. Maybe, I mused, the real win wasn't the cookies. Maybe it was the crippling social anxiety I'd developed, the newfound appreciation for natural light, and the challenge of explaining to my therapist why exactly I had a restraining order from a grocery store cashier. But hey, at least I had a really big number on my computer screen. And that, my friends, is something no amount of rent or car payments could ever buy.
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Cookie Clicker
9.5
71,736
2,434
Online players
12,504
Developer
Orteil, DashNet
Publisher
Playsaurus
Release 01 Sep 2021
Platforms