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Cookie Clicker

Orteil · Playsaurus · 2021-09-01

SteamPlayStation Store

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 05, 2020 (Android), May 22, 2025 (PlayStation 4), May 22, 2025 (Xbox One), May 22, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Sep 01, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 10, 2013 (Web browser)

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.

Cookie Clicker is a Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2021, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive (96% of 92,433 reviews) sentiment.

8,421
playing now
96%
positive of 92k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2
twitch viewers (latest)
85/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
73/100
IGDB user rating (102 ratings)
1318h
to beat · rushed 371h · completionist 26298h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

8,421 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Cookie Clicker is a 2013 video game created by French programmer Julien "Orteil" Thiennot. It is an incremental game in which the user initially clicks a big cookie on the screen, earning 1 cookie per click. Players can use earned cookies to purchase "buildings" that automatically produce cookies, alongside upgrades which improve the efficiency of clicks and buildings. There are other mechanics allowing the user to earn cookies in various ways. As cookies are earned at an exponential rate, the game gradually shifts to themes of cosmic horror. Similar to other incremental games, the game lacks a conventional ending, instead allowing players to restart the game through "ascension" and earn a faster rate of growth.

Trailer

Cookie Clicker trailer thumbnail

Cookie Clicker - Official Console Announcement Trailer

≈399,050 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 8,421 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7,845 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~981/week).
  • · Review velocity down 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 9,503 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8M–4.2M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 92,433 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.69 at Steam (2025-02-03) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12k12k20212026Week of 2021-09-01: 12,300 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 278 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2,774 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 8,531 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,928 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1,706 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 901 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 802 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 737 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 724 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1,206 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,166 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 855 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 725 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 768 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1,169 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,165 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,360 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 752 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 925 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,335 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1,762 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1,316 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1,582 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1,316 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1,341 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,508 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,921 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,952 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,762 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1,273 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,477 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,093 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,444 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,687 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,609 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,338 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,115 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,002 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 990 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,537 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,331 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,804 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,468 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 946 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 897 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 898 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,273 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 943 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 835 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,020 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 991 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,126 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1,122 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 869 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 885 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 880 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 897 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 781 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 870 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

9.3k7.1k2026-08-06 21:00 — 8,756 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 7,424 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 8,852 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 8,808 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 7,771 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 8,792 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 8,887 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 7,964 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 8,874 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 8,948 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 7,483 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 8,718 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 8,694 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 7,531 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 8,777 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 8,465 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 7,119 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 8,421 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 8,811 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 7,365 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 8,143 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 8,780 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 7,867 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 8,370 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 9,029 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 8,109 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 7,770 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 9,062 players2026-08-30 00:00 — 8,421 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$1.692021-09-012026-07-092021-09-01 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-08-15 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-06-02 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-02-10 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-11-28 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.1k1832026-05-13 — 995 pageviews2026-05-16 — 301 pageviews2026-05-19 — 1,010 pageviews2026-05-22 — 1,021 pageviews2026-05-25 — 403 pageviews2026-05-28 — 748 pageviews2026-05-31 — 277 pageviews2026-06-03 — 694 pageviews2026-06-06 — 274 pageviews2026-06-09 — 523 pageviews2026-06-12 — 443 pageviews2026-06-15 — 481 pageviews2026-06-18 — 520 pageviews2026-06-21 — 195 pageviews2026-06-24 — 539 pageviews2026-06-27 — 207 pageviews2026-06-30 — 450 pageviews2026-07-03 — 415 pageviews2026-07-06 — 343 pageviews2026-07-09 — 315 pageviews2026-07-12 — 192 pageviews2026-07-15 — 350 pageviews2026-07-18 — 183 pageviews2026-07-21 — 314 pageviews2026-07-24 — 270 pageviews2026-07-27 — 290 pageviews2026-07-30 — 303 pageviews2026-08-02 — 189 pageviews2026-08-05 — 311 pageviews2026-08-08 — 199 pageviews2026-08-11 — 411 pageviews2026-08-14 — 535 pageviews2026-08-17 — 445 pageviews2026-08-20 — 862 pageviews2026-08-23 — 226 pageviews2026-08-24 — 729 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2102026-08-26 19:15 — 2 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 2 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 19 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 21 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 6 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 2 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
100%
earned "Wake and bake"
82.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

16 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)56,7496%637
PS5 (PlayStation)2,13731%49
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)96928%48
PS4 (PlayStation)78553%49
Switch (Nintendo)1370%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DFunnyIdlerIndieMemesCasualComedyHorrorClickerEconomy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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