2013 · Incremental · Idler · Horror
How long isCookie Clicker?
by Orteil & DashNet
57 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 13 hours and 230 hours
Cookie Clicker among the 20 idle games here
The whole tier list#1
of 20
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 90%
- got past 2 hours
- +29 on the kind's 61%
- 74%
- past 20 hours
- +51 on the kind's 23%
- 95%
- launched it
- +21 on the kind's 74%
- 242
- libraries own it
- 1 in 10 of the 2,472 read here
An absurd bargain: 9¢ an hour, cheaper than 79 of 82 idle games here.
94% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
97% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
98% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
97% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
97% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
96% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
96% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
96% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
96% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Cookie Clicker hold up?
Holds steady
At least 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Cookie Clicker tell you?
In the first two hours94%recommend it
After that97%recommend it
4 in 100 said no: 4 after the window had closed.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 57 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 13 hours and 230 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 94,300 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 96% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
5% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 94% of those recommend it. After the window, 97% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 92% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 71 hours in.
When would you get there?
8weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 57 hours on Saturday, January 9, 2027.
Half of its reviewers had played between 13 and 230 hours: Nov 26 to Jul 1, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
How far do players get in Cookie Clicker?
Launched it 100%
Earned its most common achievement 100%
Earned a typical achievement 37%
How this is counted
Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.
Is Cookie Clicker worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
Cookie Clicker
- Steam list price, US
- $4.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 57 h
- idle game rate
- 66¢/h
- 57 h at that rate
- $38
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Cookie Clicker worth it? Yes.
A steal
7.6× the hours of a typical idle game, for the same money
Loved
97% recommend it after the refund windowmost idle games: 91%
Gets played
95% of owners here have played itmost idle games: 85%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $4.99, the typical player's 57 hours come to 9¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 97% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 9¢ an hour, Cookie Clicker is cheaper per hour than 79 of 82 idle games here: the typical one of 82 idle games here charges 66¢, so the same $4.99 buys 7.6× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (idle games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Cookie Clicker today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch and 3 more.
- Web browser2013
- NES2014ported
- todayAndroid2020
- todayPC2021
- todayXbox Series2025
- todayPS42025
- todayPS52025
- todayXbox One2025
- todaySwitch2025
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Cookie Clicker came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Cookie Clicker?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Cookie Clicker, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Cookie Clicker would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@radu107 holds this page
- 1st
@radu1071,415 h - 2nd
@danonyyy1,152 h - 3rd
@attila-the-heather1,068 h - 4th
@tyr506 h - 5th
@thenobody666347 h - 6th
@nervoser-owo312 h - 7th
@definecoffee283 h - 8th
@k-mommy204 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Cookie Clicker?
- B
The middle pick of 10 players on the Steam tier list
1 in 21
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Cookie Clicker: a kind of game it is that Cookie Clicker is not, a feature its tags carry that Cookie Clicker's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.