Cookie Clicker is the classic idle game — you click a giant cookie, earn cookies, and spend them on grandmas, farms, and factories that bake even more cookies for you.
It starts out simple and gets weirdly deep. Before long you're running an entire cookie economy that keeps growing even while you're not looking.
Click the big cookie to bake cookies. Spend them on buildings — cursors, grandmas, farms, mines, factories and so on — that bake cookies for you automatically. Buy upgrades to make your clicks and buildings stronger, and keep reinvesting until the numbers get silly.
Golden cookies pop up now and then; clicking one gives a huge temporary bonus or a pile of free cookies. There's no losing and no end — the game just keeps growing, and it keeps going in the background while you do something else.
| Mouse / tap | Click the cookie, buy buildings and upgrades |
|---|---|
| Golden cookie | Click it fast — it disappears after a few seconds |
| Shift + click | Buy 10 buildings at once |
| Ctrl + click | Buy 100 buildings at once |
This is the game that made idle games a thing, and it's still one of the best. It's the perfect background game — check in every few minutes, buy an upgrade, feel the progress.
Careful though, 'I'll just get one more building' is a trap and suddenly the whole class period is gone.
There isn't a finish line. The goal is to build the biggest cookie empire you can — more buildings, more upgrades, more cookies per second — and to see how far you can push the numbers.
Cheapest thing available, over and over. A few cursors and grandmas early snowball into everything else.
Yes, it saves in your browser automatically. Clearing your browser data wipes it, so don't do that on a big save.
No. You can always buy one more thing, and the game keeps adding bigger and weirder buildings and upgrades the further you get.
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