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Cookie Clicker
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
67 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“this game made me go from just clicking cookies to starting to have romantic relationships with it.”
“its the flash game we all know and love but with steam achievements, it may be free on the web but supporting a game I've loved since elementry school and more than 600 achievements is a great reason to buy it”
“I didn’t expect Cookie Clicker to completely hijack my brain chemistry, but here we are. At first, it’s simple—deceptively simple. You click a cookie. A number goes up. That’s it. That’s the hook. But that number… it…”
19 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“its the flash game we all know and love but with steam achievements, it may be free on the web but supporting a game I've loved since elementry school and more than 600 achievements is a great reason to buy it”
“Sometime decent to just mindlessly do nothing but get dopamine hits watching series or something. Starts slow, gets insane.”
“I really like this game you can click cookies and upgrade to get more cookies and monopolize cookies and make time machines and clones of yourself and you can ascend and you can do a lot with cookies and get more…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Pretty fun and it has lore so.... goodluck. oh and you can run this game on a potato btw”
“I really like this game you can click cookies and upgrade to get more cookies and monopolize cookies and make time machines and clones of yourself and you can ascend and you can do a lot with cookies and get more…”
“very complex gameplay amazing story with crazy lore and the best graphics I have every seen”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“its the flash game we all know and love but with steam achievements, it may be free on the web but supporting a game I've loved since elementry school and more than 600 achievements is a great reason to buy it”
“Great game, really worth it but becomes absolute hell once your pass trevigintillion, the sugar lumps and garden are a nightmare no matter how you try to optimize them both, the hard ones like getting the different…”
“Fun game and the Steam version is worth it for the achievements. You can grind forever or use an imported save to speed things up and see what the end game is like. I can tell lots of work went into this game over the…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This game is incredible! Although on the surface it looks simple, underneath its surface is a multifaceted strategy game with much dopamine to be had. Amazing music, sfx, upgrades, achievements, mechanics, and UI make…”
“[b]This game is about clicking the cookie to make more cookies and its great. You can get addicted to the game and still be having fun a year later. [/b] [b]Gameplay: 4/5 More then what you expect[/b] The gameplay is…”
“love running this in the background while I'm working. Also, the soundtrack is a vibe.”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this · 13 of them still recommend the game.
“I have now gotten to the point where I will leave my computer running all night with an auto clicker because I am so greedy. This game is turning me into a evil gluttonous person and the ideals of capitalism are…”
“Dont play this game, it has stolen my life and I cant sleep without dreaming about freaking cookies”
“The beginning ramp-up period of this game has an addicting loop as you start establishing better buildings. However, in the mid-to-endgame, the most effective way to maximize cookie production is through tedious 4–5…”
13 of the 103 reviews raise this · 11 of them still recommend the game.
“I have been grinding to get every garden seed and I must be very lucky because I just got the juicy queenbeet in my second attempt with no savescumming because savescummers should be burned because it's worse than 9/11.”
“The beginning ramp-up period of this game has an addicting loop as you start establishing better buildings. However, in the mid-to-endgame, the most effective way to maximize cookie production is through tedious 4–5…”
“Cookie Clicker is the purest possible expression of a genre that exists solely to exploit the part of your brain that finds numbers going up inherently satisfying, and Orteil figured that out in 2013 with a javascript…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“It's a great game—if you want to be a recluse. In my thousand hours, touching grass seemed like a crime. If you want to be looked down on, abandoned, and cut off from society, this is the game for you. Good luck.”
“if you want to waste your lifeforce then this is the game to play well most idle games are but this is the best for wasting time”
“Truthfully I would not recommend this to other players but I had a very good time picking this up since I played it back when it first came out in 2013 and I would feel wrong giving this game a thumbs down. I spent more…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“The beginning ramp-up period of this game has an addicting loop as you start establishing better buildings. However, in the mid-to-endgame, the most effective way to maximize cookie production is through tedious 4–5…”
“Great game, really worth it but becomes absolute hell once your pass trevigintillion, the sugar lumps and garden are a nightmare no matter how you try to optimize them both, the hard ones like getting the different…”
“This is one of the most addicting games if you like games where it seems simple but actually is hell(BUT AMAZING) Then this is the game for you (BTW PLEASE I BEG READ THE WIKI IF YOUR CONFUSED)”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 96.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“There is a reason that this game is listed horror Its a psychological horror to you "Just one more golden cookie"| "Just one step away from that acheivement" "I WILL GET ALL THE ACHEIVEMENTS"”
— a player, Steam review · 1,828 hrs played“It's a cookie, and you click it. That's basically the whole game...”
— a player, Steam review · 276 hrs played“I played 1k hours I stopped receiving achievements because I added a translation mod No dopamine, sad man A year later, I decide to open the game again Achievements simply reappear on Steam Dopamine hmmm nice Another 1k round on the way”
— a player, Steam review · 1,076 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:40 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Cookie Clicker on PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch
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Language patch!
Language update Patch 2.053 adds support for the Norwegian and Danish languages on PC and Mac. This brings the game's language selection to 15 languages! Idler Fest Steam is currently hosting Idler Fe
Cookie Clicker is officially 10 years old!
Cookie Clicker is officially 10 years old! 2 of which happened right here on Steam. Thank you so much for all your support and kind feedback over the years. To celebrate, we're going 40% off this week
v. 2.052: Cookie Clicker gets you
Full changelog in this update: added the final, 20th building (currently, no more buildings are planned beyond this one; there are still many more updates to come, but future patches will focus on add
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Clicker · Idler · Casual · Indie · Pixel Graphics · Management · Horror · Economy · Collectathon · Funny · 2D · Memes (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Czech * , Dutch * , Japanese * , Polish * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * , Korean * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Spanish - Lati… |
| Achievements | 637 |
| Estimated owners | 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://cookieclicker.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Microsoft® Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows 8 Classic Processor: 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbook class devices Memory: 512 MB RAM Storage: 350 MB available space