The third column is the store. If your screen is large enough, it even says so at the top. Click on stuff there to buy it (using your cookies as cash), both buildings (the wide rectangular buttons), and enhancements (the things at the top like the rolling pin.)
Objective is primarily to make the number of cookies/cookies per second absurdly high. There is no other goal, although there are some “plot” elements as the game progresses.
Thanks guys,
I am on an apple iPad. Is this going to run on my device?
I notice it says an Android portal is there and a “possible” iOS port is being made as of August.
Here is what happens when i bring it up.
I tap on the cookie, and the cookie resizes to a larger cookie. I tap agsin, and the cookie shrinks back to it’s original size. It continues to fluxuate back and forth between sizes.
Also, the slower I tap, the better it seems to be, faster tapping causes the cookie not to register taps.
And that wiki page doesn’t really tell me the rules, unless the only rule is to tap the cookie. Other than that, the page doesn’t say much about the game and how to play it. It does say the game goes on forever.
If I had to guess, I’d guess that playing this on an ipad either isn’t going to work, or isn’t going to be all that fun. This is more of a “play in the background and occasionally check in on” game.
As for how to play, you click on the cookie enough times to be able to buy things in the store. The things in the store then essentially click the cookie for you (well, the cursor does, the other things create them in their own particular way - but that’s not important). As you progress, there are upgrades to purchase (“double the effectiveness of grandmas!”, “mines gain +10 base CpS!”, etc.), achievements to reach (“Bake 1,000,000 cookies!”, “Have 50 Anti-Matter Condensers!”, etc.), and game events to trigger (“the Grandmas have now become Elder Gods eating away the fabric of the universe (from whence more cookies pour out)”).
It’s all very horrible. And addicting. And wonderful.
Munch,
Thank you for the reply.
I guess I will pass on this game until I can get something I can play it on.
This game has fascinated me since i discovered this thread, because I can’t really see any “game”. It seems to run by itself quite a bit, and there is no interaction between users. It is the user and the cookie, and that seems to be it. Clearly people enjoy it, so I want to see what the hubbub is about.
What does this game work on? Is it only android devices, or can one play it on a laptop or desktop loaded with windows?
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Mostly, the appeal is just that exponential growth is fun to watch. When you start out, having 100 cookies seems pretty impressive… Then you get to a point where you’re getting 100 cookies every second, without doing anything. Then you suddenly realize that you’ve got a million cookies banked away… And so on, until you’re getting trillions of cookies per second, or more.
So, what’s the end?
Or has no one found an end yet?
Also, does this thing run continuously on your device, sucking up processing power and memory? I assume if it does, it can’t be much, or people wouldn’t let it run.
What happens if you stop or shut it down? Does it start all over again?
There’s no end. Updates come out every couple months to shake things up just enough to suck you back in. Playing on an ipad is useless*. I’m betting that every single person here who does play has it open on their pc’s running in the background and they check in once or twice a day.
If you close the window, it saves it from that point and you start back up where you’re from but closing the window greatly detracts from the mindless accumulation appeal.
*There is a ripoff app for the ipad where you click and get achievements. It’s very vanilla and doesn’t have the dark twist that the original has. An ipad-specific benefit is that there’s “sleep mode” or something to that effect that allows you to accumulate cookies at 50% of the “open” rate for up to 12 hrs. There aren’t as many upgrades or holiday themes but for what it is, it’s a decent ipad clone.
This isn’t entirely true. A lot of my enjoyment of the game flows from my having more cookies than Chronos.
A big part of why I got sucked in was that the US debt crisis was going on just at the time when I found it. In the beginning, balancing investment, and ROI vs the cost of letting the bank just sit fallow was connecting in my mind with the decisions being made in Washington.
Then as I got up into the trillions I began to comprehend those higher numbers for the first time, ever. Now my cps is in scientific notation and it’s just incredible to observe my own response when I hit a cookie and “only” get an increase of 1.65+85 or something. Really? That doesn’t even register! I WANT MOOOOORRRREEEE!!!
LOL. Truly though, I only turn it on for a day or so when there’s a holiday theme or some other change; because, yes, its to the point now that the calculation consumes an observable amount of memory/processing speed.
Are people still calling this a “game”?
It’s surprisingly strategic in all the ways you have to figure out how to get/make the most possible cookies per second.
Is that not part of what most games entail?
It’s an interactive activity designed for no purpose other than entertainment. What would you call it?
100 Trillion CpS. Daaaaamn, I like this new upgrade.
Yeah it is…but I need 136 freakin’ *quadrillion *cookies for my next Prism…and I need still 94 more of them for the Bicentennial achievement…
must. bake. cookies. faster.
I revisited to see the new upgrades, bought 248 prisms off the bat. Didn’t seem to do much, so after the laborious task of Bicentennial, it’s off again.
Ain’t kidding – my next one (number 134) will cost 5.8 quintillion.
I had been playing this by resetting every couple of days for the Heavenly Chips. My wife and I would sit down to watch a TV show and after an hour I’d be close to where I was before, but with more production due to the HC’s.
The trouble was, the extreme numbers between HC goals was making it less and less beneficial to reset. It was getting to where I’d have to let it sit for several more days just to make a reset worthwhile.
But this new upgrade has changed it all up. My last reset was 13 hours ago, and I’ve already generated 46.3 quintillion cookies since then. I’ll probably reset this evening, and I’ll go from just over 25,000 HC’s to 30,000 – massively worth it.
It doesn’t matter if you get the most possible cookies per second, because the numbers may change but the relative value does not.
I’d be happy to call it a psychological experiment, but when something is as inherently pointless as this then I struggle to call it a game. Might as well call my bedside clock a game, the numbers keep going up on it too.
If your alarm clock gave you achievements, you’d probably be more motivated to get up in the morning.
(Any RPG ever)
It doesn’t matter how much you upgrade your weapons and Armor because they’re strength relative to the enemies remains the same. …
You can finish an RPG.