Cell Defender
Lucky me gets to write the first review for Cell Defender, which is a 2D retro pixel/minimalist arcade clicker/defense game where you are positioned in the middle of the game window and must click on little balls that move toward you from the edges of the screen. So it’s basically a sad kind of whack-a-mole but with less character.
This feels like someones game design class homework assignment (I am not sure if they passed the course). There’s no working full screen, the “art” looks like it was slapped out with MS Paint in less than 10 minutes, and the gameplay makes Space Invaders seem modern and innovative.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
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| 📦 Active Development? | ❌ No recent activity |
| ⏱️ How Long to Beat | ❓ Pending |
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Idle Earth
Nice Idle game. Progress is fast enough and premium currency isn’t needed to enjoy the game.
I like that most of the clicking you can do to speed up progress isn’t just button mashing.
– Real player with 307.3 hrs in game
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Finally got all the achievements. Fun little game to pass the time. Pick it up when it’s on sale.
– Real player with 205.0 hrs in game
The Last Order: Dungeons
As “Clicker” games go, The Last Order: Dungeons looks excellent! Not only does it look great, but the developers went beyond the graphics to include additional color palettes, excellent scan line options, and even controller support. They also built a progression system into the game and gave you different “outfits” for rewards. I commend the enthusiasm and appreciate the touches that bring more to this simplistic genre.
This overall presentation gives you an idea that there is something substantial to look forward to. It’s kind of like something that drives you to keep playing, in hopes of glimpsing the unexpected from a simple clicker game. Unfortunately, my curiosity for the game fell off a cliff about 20 minutes in, and I never really found out if there was something more beyond Dungeon 1-5. There might have been an increase in the difficulty to blame, but in all honesty, after so many attempts of these mundane runs, I lost interest and didn’t care enough to keep going. I did put my big boy pants on and talked myself into playing about another hour, trying to find out what was on the other side of level 2, but that never happened.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
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Art is good, music and sound are amazing, much content, not much else to say.
This game has a simple concept, so simple in fact that it is hard to balance it between “So hard that it’s frustrating” and “So easy that it’s boring”. However, after the first patches, they managaed to reach exactly that balance, with level-like challenges, a difficulty setting and a customizable training mode.
Also remember to use your spells! Makes the game both more exciting and easier.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Cookie Clicker
“Ultimately, the cookie economy is not designed to help people. It just makes cookies. Like a virus or a tumor. Its nature is to exploit everything around it for its own expansion. Grandmas, banks, temples, every part of life is perverted to serve the purpose of the economy. Nothing is too sacred to be sacrificed on its altar. And for what? What’s the point of a massive, global economy, if it fails to protect the elderly and the vulnerable? Even those with the most cookies don’t really benefit from the system. Past a certain level of wealth, you can never spend that many cookies. And it’s not like the game ever ends. You cannot “win” Cookie Clicker. You just keep making cookies until you stop or you die. You just hoarding cookies for its own sake. It’s not really about the cookies, it’s about the accumulation. Getting more. You could be collecting any meaningless number: points.. subscribers… small, green pieces of paper… past a certain point you just making a number go up.
– Real player with 2202.0 hrs in game
Cookie Clicker is a bizarre game and one that makes me wish that Steam had something better than a binary Yes/No review system, as this game can probably work well for some people but horribly for others. I have tried to keep this review as short as possible, but with enough depth to let you know whether this game could be for you.
The idea that idle games can form some sort of critique of modern games (especially with RPG elements increasingly commonplace) is well-worn and incredibly applicable to Cookie Clicker, and whilst some idle games have started charging for in-game purchases, Cookie Clicker is admirably devoid of them. The real question for someone approaching this is whether what Cookie Clicker does is subversive enough to warrant putting time into it at all.
– Real player with 836.1 hrs in game
Realm Grinder
I should probably begin by saying I have a weakness for idle games. The allure of always progressing and the goal of that next unlockable is appealing to me. I can’t describe properly why that’s the case. I’ve played many idle games. Clicker heroes, adventure capitalist, soda dungeon, the cookie game, time clickers and more.
Realm Grinder is the best by an absolute mile.
Does it do anything different to the other games listed? Not really, no. You’re still clicking on things to make things happen until you reach a point of allowing the game to be self sufficient and left alone until you want to update it and get bigger numbers. What Realm Grinder does differently to the other games is include a gigantic amount of depth. You’re not simply trying to reach the biggest possible numbers. Instead you are trying to reach goal after goal after goal. And everytime you think you’ve reached the limit, the game adds even more goals.
– Real player with 7647.8 hrs in game
TLDR: If you like clickers that are more strategic and have lots of complexities to them, this is one for you. If you just like to click and not think about it, maybe give it a pass.
I decided to play this game after reading a negative feedback comment because it accurately described the game. I like my idle clickers that have times when you need to be active and other times when you can just leave it alone for a while. This does describe Realm Grinder.
You start the game with the basics and as you move on more dimensions of the game come into play. Each of these new additions adds to the complexity and forces you to be more strategic with your game play. Now, you can do this all on your own and figure it out by trial and error, or you can read the forums on Kongregate or the website http://musicfamily.org/realm/ which is entirely devoted to the game. There’s a plethora of information out there about all the different stages of the game, what to do when, and how to do it most effectively.
– Real player with 5861.1 hrs in game
Human-powered spacecraft
Not your average 1€/$ clicker game here just for its achievements.. =P
Well, one hour or two are definitely enough to get them all. And with ease, trust me.
All the achievements are in fact incremental and linked to your progression in the story, so basically everything isn’t missable apart from the least achieved one - basically, you’ll have just to “sync” the cat and rat icon on the lower left part of the screen, switching between rest (red) and work (green) - synchronizing the Schrödinger’s cat and mouse or whatever they are.
– Real player with 17.8 hrs in game
Most clicker games go ‘all-in’ on the trend started by cookie clicker; the experience starts out in a state of normality and entices the player onto a long marathon. This marathon entices the player to journey down a rabbit hole of ever more crazy things. Such overarching scenarios help maintain interest, but are very broad and impersonal. In contrast to this approach, Human powered spacecraft takes the clicker style game in the opposite direction with a much shorter format, and a more human and personal story. What it lacks in longevity it makes up for in narritive by telling an enjoyable little yarn. It takes a concept that is bordering on rediculous but somehow makes it work by following through on it thematically, tonally and narritively. For the price, I’d say it’s a successful experiment.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
PickCrafter
What is “PickCrafter”?
PickCrafter is a clicker game with idle elements that was based on Minecraft and its clones. The game’s unique mechanic is that there are many picks, which you can activate for short bonuses. We get to that below.
Graphics
The graphics of PickCrafter are relatively basic, but the particle effects etc. are very nicely made, giving it an appearance of a kind of living world. Don’t get me wrong, you usually just crack block after block. But there are also boss fights, and the pickaxe powers, and abilities, which all are nicely made. In addition, events are run half the time (usually an event starts Friday evening and lasts for three or four days, in rare cases they are longer). If they have specialized graphics, they also fit.
– Real player with 4267.3 hrs in game
Usually clickers become easier and you can go further every time you start over - keeping some of the benefits you’ve earned. Not in PickCrafter. The restart currency (“ender pearls”) is locked at three pieces and after a few upgrades that make the game go faster (require less blocks to advance and such), you need way more than just three pearls as these barriers also keep rising. So by the time you’ve accumulated enough pearls to lower the bar one inch, it rose five. That’s where I’m stuck by boredom after prestiging 40 times. Doesn’t help that a lot of things like pickaxes are barred behind tasty paywalls AND require steady “runic” (ingame cash currency) investments to remain useful. I’m usually motivated by this to try to come extra far but the greed is too strong in this one. I understand, the dev wants to make money but this design is borderline shady and it should be thought over. Except three zones that only can be accessed by teleport skill or ender pickaxe (and only as long as they’re active, we’re talking seconds here): once you’ve reached the last area and start over, you’ve seen it all. A fun minecraft-related clicker for a few days but not worth besting at.
– Real player with 1093.1 hrs in game
Scream Collector
Scream Collector is an excellent and quirky clicker game that can serve as a simple yet fun daily chore. A perfect game for when you have nothing better to do. As a clicker, it met all my expectations and then some and honestly that is all I could really ask for. If Scream Collector even remotely interests you then you should give it a chance. It’s free so what have you got to lose?
Review
PuzzleRoo’s Scream Collector can best be described with one word—comfortable. This game was really what got me through finals and some pretty stressful times with it’s laid back and simple aesthetic. I wasn’t bombarded with flashing colors, ridiculous SFX, or unrealistic progression (a staple of free clickers). Just a slightly spooky design with esthetic gameplay; and even with the option to pay to win I was never pressured into buying anything. No matter how bad I have felt these past few weeks of my life I had at least one stable thing—Scream Collector.
– Real player with 245.7 hrs in game
The hall is silent, and cold. I stand there in the doorway, taking a moment to observe the emptiness. The hall had been a bustle of activity and life (or perhaps “unlife”) just a moment before; now, all that remained after the reset was a swarm of spirits, black as shadows and shimmering in the pale light. They gather to me, swirling at my feet and trailing up and down my spine. Instinctively, I put my hands in my pockets to warm them up, only to brush up against the jewels and scratch cards that threaten to burst out of the fabric. I sigh as I stare at the sole corporeal object in the room: an old, tattered rug, barely larger than the door I just walked through. I knew what I needed to do, for I had done it many times before.
– Real player with 194.8 hrs in game
Campaign Clicker
Did you get 100% of the achievements in Clicker Heroes and you want to find another clicker game to play that has achievements? Are you interested in following the debates for the current election? I recommend that you give this game a try. Pick your party, Republican or Democrat, and start clicking away.
I have one warning other than the fact that this game is highly addictive. If you’re not careful while rapidly clicking it’s easy to make an in-game purchase, which is non-refundable through Steam. This is moreso a problem if you keep one of the left side menus open while clicking and have purchased the $0.49 boost and intend on clicking every ballon as it passes by. You can accidentally click on the offer button, select the $3.99 3 Multiplier, and finalize the purchase without intending to do so. Just remember to not leave the side menu open, and you’ll be fine.
– Real player with 440.1 hrs in game
It doesn’t appear to have the technical issues it once had, but it’s still a mediocre idler. It has a major issue with messing with settings and such when you get back into the game. I silenced all the annoying music and noises, and yet, every few times, I’ll get back in and be greeted by the SFX blasting every time I click because it reset it to 10. Some days, I’ll go in to start a new campaign, and it will have decided parties for me (and not consistently, either; despite usually sticking to one party, it’ll often decide that I flipped without even asking me).
– Real player with 259.5 hrs in game
Incel Clicker
Good game wher every soliders life matters and where you need to micromanage every one of your men to achieve victory best played with friends AI does exsist in the game but its rather lacking and so can the AI in your individual units bee ther areerrer alllot!!!! of good mods with change the game to what feels like a completely new one!! YOu sold gett this whit friends and you wold have allottt of fun bajs rumpa!!
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
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– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game