Cookie Clicker
BANGER · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 143.9h
- Value
- $0.03/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.69, set in February 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 22 in the 5 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, (the) Gnorp Apologue ($6.99, scores 83) and Mr.Mine (free, scores 77) both come in lower.
Steam's global achievement data puts 37 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 4,001 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 143.9 hours; clearing it takes 805, which is 5.6 times the campaign.
Still 9.6K concurrent players, 5 years in.
The drop-off
100% start to 37% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
9,583 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game feels 1 trillion years old and epitomizes what a "Idle/Clicker" gamer is. The OG. These idle games don't really need much said about them because cookie clicker defined them. 10/10 for people who enjoy idle nonsense as I.
Pretty simple concept taken too far. Would recommend to buy even though the browser version is free.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Cookie Clicker scores 98/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1454400/cookie-clickerThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 23.
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