This Cookie Clicker guide will help you quickly and efficiently collect cookies. Even though there is no end to the game, this strategy guide will help you collect cookies efficiently and spend them wisely and effectively for the best return on investment.
What is Cookie Clicker?
Cookie Clicker is a JavaScript-based online browser game where the goal is to collect cookies. It has always been available on PC, but now it’s also on PS4.
It was released in 2013 as a joke by Orteil and Opti, but it quickly went viral and became a big deal on the internet. Since it came out, the game has gone through a lot of changes, with v2 being the most important one.
You click on them to get cookies (hence the name). You can buy things to help you get cookies faster with the cookies you’ve collected. These things: There are things to do and a system of prestige to keep you interested. The game also gives players a “soft target” to shoot for instead of the usual “hard ending.”
How to play Cookie Clicker
At first, the player clicks on the big cookie on the left side of the screen. Each click gives the player one cookie. With these cookies, the player can buy new assets like cursors, grandmas, farms, mines, factories, banks, temples, and many others that automatically make cookies without the player having to click. Each asset of the same type costs 15 percent more than the last one of the same type that was bought. The player can also buy upgrades for these buildings to make them make more cookies. Small golden cookies that show up in random places and disappear after a few seconds. If you click on them before they disappear, you can get things like golden cookies or a temporary boost to the rate of production.
Cookie Clicker Strategy Guide
Here are six things you can do to get the most out of your Cookie clicker game. Use these tips and tricks to start making cookies! But first, I’ll tell you about the game’s history.
1. Invest your money wisely
Return on Investment is the first thing to think about in this strategy guide (ROI).
This is a term that is used a lot in investment and personal finance. It means what you get for the money you put in at the beginning. In the “real world,” people use money to make money. In this game, you use cookies to make cookies, so the same principles apply.
Think about what you want to get out of upgrades or buildings before you buy them. This is CPC in a nutshell (cookies per second). As the game goes on, the cost of upgrades and buildings goes up by a factor of 10 or more, making them much more expensive. So, think about whether the upgrade will give you enough cookies per second to be worth buying at this point.
Buildings and Upgrades
Think about the following made-up situation. You have a thousand cookies and a few options:
Buy two grandmas for $800 to make 10 cookies each per second (total of 20 cookies per second).
If you buy a farm for 1000 cookies, you can make 28 cookies every second.
At first glance, the farm seems like the better choice, but if you look at the percentage return on the initial investment:
Every second, grandmas get back 2.5% of what they put in (taking 40 seconds to pay off the initial investment).
Every second, the farm makes back 2.8% of the initial investment (taking 36 seconds to pay off the initial investment).
Example situations
You can tell that the farm isn’t much better. The above situation gives us two ways to move forward:
Buy the grandmas and use the 200 cookies you have left over to make more cookies.
In the long run, buying the farm will help you make more cookies.
This will depend on your overall strategy. If you want to leave the game running while you do something else, the farm is the best choice. If you want to play actively, you should choose the grandmas.
In short, the most obvious choice isn’t always the best choice. Think about your Return on Investment and whether or not your cookies are in the best spot. Early in the game, it is often better to buy new buildings than to spend a lot of money upgrading the ones you already have.
2. Come up with a plan that will work
The second tip in this strategy guide is to decide early on how you want to play and stick to it.
If you are happy to just click away, you should make your strategy more about clicking.
If you’d rather leave it alone, you’re better off with a strategy that involves automatically making cookies.
This will help you use your valuable resources as effectively as possible in line with the strategy you’ve chosen. If you want to click, put all the click-based upgrades at the top of your list. In the long run, this will get you more cookies.
This can help you avoid leaving cookies in places you don’t plan to visit.
3. Achievements
This is less obvious in the game, but still very important. You get milk every time you unlock a new achievement. This gives you a percentage increase in how many cookies you can make.
See the list of accomplishments below for more information:
Achievements are badges you get when you reach certain goals, and each one makes you more powerful.
Try to keep working toward unlocking these achievements, as this will help you in the long run.
You should also look at all of the achievements to see if there are any “easy wins.” It’s possible that you’re very close but don’t know it, and that a simple upgrade would give you a big boost right away.
Milk is also increased by unique upgrades that can be found with all the others, but it doesn’t say what they do. Make sure you get this upgrade whenever you can.
4. Upgrade Your Prestige
Once you reach a certain goal, like 1 trillion, you can move up to a higher level of prestige.
When you ascend, all of your cookies, buildings, and upgrades are reset, but your achievements stay the same.
The benefit of moving up to the next prestige level is that it increases your cookie income without you having to do anything. Also, it’s nice to have something to shoot for.
Once you’ve reached your goal, you should prestige as soon as you can to keep being as effective as possible.
5. Stay away from farms: Grandmas are cool
In this strategy guide, not all cookie-made buildings are the same.
Most people agree that grandma buildings and upgrades are great early in the game and continue to get better as the game goes on because they can always be upgraded. So, putting your money into the Grandma tech tree can be a good idea.
Conclusion
Cookie Clicker is an incremental computer game made by Julien “Orteil” Thiennot, a French programmer, in 2013. At first, the user clicks on a big cookie on the screen. Each click gives the user one cookie. Then, they can use the cookies they’ve earned to buy assets like “cursors” and other “buildings” that make cookies on their own.