Spacebar Clicker
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Spacebar Clicker is an idle game with almost nothing in it: a counter, a big SPACEBAR button, and a list of upgrades you buy to press the key for you. Your presses are your money, and the upgrades you buy turn into a per-second rate that keeps climbing on its own. The list runs from silly to absurd — a monkey bashing a keyboard, a boomer mom, a Gen Z kid, and eventually machines that fire lasers at the spacebar.
It was made by CrociDB for js13kGames 2021, a jam with a 13-kilobyte size limit, and that constraint shows in a good way. There are no images and no loading screen; the whole game is one file that starts the moment it opens. This site hosts a copy of it.
Spacebar Clicker was made by CrociDB for js13kGames 2021, a game jam where the whole entry has to fit inside 13 kilobytes. That size limit is why it opens instantly and why it looks the way it does: a counter, one big button, and a list of upgrades, with no art assets. The source is public on GitHub under the CrociDB account, and the game went on to be picked up by browser game portals and hosted under its own name as a standalone clicker.
This site hosts a copy of that game — it wasn't made here. Credit for the design and code belongs to CrociDB.
You press the spacebar, or tap the big SPACEBAR button on screen, and each press adds one spacebar to your counter. That number is both your score and your money. The screen is just three things: the counter at the top, your per-second rate under it, and a list of upgrade cards that reveal themselves as you get closer to affording them.
Spending spacebars is the whole strategy. Most cards are pressers that work for you — a Monkey, a Boomer Mom, a MOBA Gamer, and stranger things further down the list — and each one adds to your per-second rate, which ticks up by itself. The Keyboard Upgrade card is different: it doubles what your own presses are worth. Costs rise every time you buy, and the game saves in your browser, so you can close the tab and come back to the same run.
| Space | Press it to earn spacebars. One press = one press; holding it down does not repeat |
|---|---|
| Click / tap the SPACEBAR button | The same as pressing the key, and it can be used at the same time as the keyboard |
| Click an upgrade card | Buy it if you can afford it — cards light up when they're in range |
| Reset game (link in the footer) | Wipes your save after a confirmation prompt |
What I like about this one is that your own hand never stops mattering. In most clickers you press for two minutes and then the game plays itself, but here the Keyboard Upgrade card doubles your personal presses over and over, so a good run is still partly about how fast you can actually tap. Watching the counter roll past millions while you're still doing the work is the appeal.
It's also a grind, and I'd rather say so. The early upgrades come fast, then there's a long stretch where the next card costs far more than you're earning, and that part is more waiting than playing. It's a minute-or-two game, not a sit-down-for-an-hour game — good in a spare moment, rough on your wrist if you take it seriously.
No. The game only counts one press per key-down, and it waits for you to let go before the next one registers. Resting something heavy on the key won't do anything — you have to tap.
Yes, and you should use both. Clicking the SPACEBAR button and pressing the spacebar key are counted separately, so you can do one with each hand and score faster.
Yes — it stores your score and upgrades in your browser, so the run continues when you come back. There's a reset link in the footer if you want to start over, and it asks first.
Yes — tapping the SPACEBAR button works. You just lose the second input, since there's no physical spacebar to tap alongside it.
CrociDB made it for js13kGames 2021, the 13-kilobyte game jam. This site hosts a copy of that game.
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