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Cookie Clicker

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First release
Aug 10, 2013
Publisher
Playsaurus, Orteil
Genres
Indie, Simulator, Point-and-click, Strategy · Fantasy, Science fiction, Comedy, Business
Platforms
Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Linux, Web browser, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

Cookie Clicker is a Javascript-based browser video game written by French programmer Julien Thiennot, better known as "Orteil". The point of the game is to bake cookies as fast as possible, to have a large number of cookies, and to have a lot of milk; notably, however, there is no true end to the gameplay. At the beginning of the game, the player bakes cookies solely by clicking on a giant cookie, gaining one cookie each time it is clicked. Once the player has enough cookies, they can use them to buy items that will bake more cookies automatically. The seemingly endless gameplay makes it a game that can last an indefinite amount of time.

Also known as Cookie Clicker.exe

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Storyline
Interpretatively, the closer you get to making more cookies than there are people to consume them, the more you turn the world into nothing but a race of sentient cookies, and aliens. The story can also be perceived as symbolism for corporations or monopolies getting carried-away, and forgetting all sense of their origins, or otherwise destroying their own foundations from within, when nothing but the next job/production is all that can be seen in life.Read more

Interpretatively, the closer you get to making more cookies than there are people to consume them, the more you turn the world into nothing but a race of sentient cookies, and aliens. The story can also be perceived as symbolism for corporations or monopolies getting carried-away, and forgetting all sense of their origins, or otherwise destroying their own foundations from within, when nothing but the next job/production is all that can be seen in life.

Release dates
Web browser
Aug 10, 2013
Android
Oct 05, 2020
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sep 01, 2021
All 8 release dates
PlayStation 4
May 22, 2025
Xbox One
May 22, 2025
Nintendo Switch
May 22, 2025
PlayStation 5
May 22, 2025
Xbox Series X|S
May 22, 2025
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main Story
371h
Main + Extras
1318h
Completionist
26298h
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Text
Keywords
casual, mutation, minigames, 2d, browser-based
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At a Glance

Critic Score
85
Main Story (IGDB)
371h
Main + Extras (IGDB)
1318h
Completionist (IGDB)
26298h
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Steam users rate this Overwhelmingly Positive, 88,658 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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