Software:Stimulation Clicker

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Short description: 2025 video game

Stimulation Clicker
Developer(s)Neal Agarwal
Producer(s)Liz Ryan
Artist(s)
  • Pixel Chop
  • Sketch Studio
Writer(s)Alex Alvarez
Composer(s)
  • Austin Taylor
  • Jon Kaur
Platform(s)Web
ReleaseJanuary 6, 2025
Genre(s)Clicker
Mode(s)Single-player

Stimulation Clicker is a 2025 clicker game created by Neal Agarwal. In the game, the player clicks a button to earn Stimulation Points, which they can spend on upgrades to gain more points. The game was released on his website, neal.fun, on January 6, 2025. Stimulation Clicker garnered a positive reception, with praise for its chaotic gameplay and satirical take on the modern internet.

Gameplay

In Stimulation Clicker, the player starts with a button instructing players to click it.[1][2] Each click earns them one Stimulation Point, and they may spend their points on upgrades to gain more points.[3] Themed around overstimulation, upgrades include a true crime podcast, gameplay footage of Subway Surfers, and DVD screensaver logos that move across the screen.[1][4] Once the player purchases every upgrade, they unlock an end credits scene where they arrive at an ocean.[5] The player's progress cannot be saved.[4]

Development

Neal Agarwal, the game's creator, in 2024

Developed by Neal Agarwal, the creator of The Password Game (2023), Draw a Perfect Circle (2023), and Infinite Craft (2024), Stimulation Clicker was released on January 6, 2025, for his website, neal.fun.[6] Agarwal first conceived of the idea during the COVID-19 lockdowns, claiming he wanted to capture "the experience of being terminally online".[7][8]

The development took 4 months and was inspired by Cookie Clicker and Upgrade Complete!.[8] It included hiring voice actors for an original 45 minute podcast, recording new lines from the original announcer of the Halo franchise, and including specially record segments from streamers and influencers.[7]

Reception

Multiple reviewers found the game chaotic.[3][4][9] Kris Holt of Engadget, likening it to Clickolding, described Stimulation Clicker as a "funny, bruising commentary" on how websites keep users engaged,[4] while Maddy Myers of Polygon felt it was a "terrifying art project".[1] Yair Rosenberg of The Atlantic thought the game was "a remarkable rendering of how digital life has gone off the rails."[7] In PC Gamer, Jonathan Bolding opined that while not being a very deep commentary, it was "a useful one."[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Myers, Maddy (January 7, 2025). "Stimulation Clicker is pure internet hell mode". https://www.polygon.com/review/504701/stimulation-clicker-free-browser-game. 
  2. ↑ Evans-Thirlwell, Edwin (January 8, 2025). "Stimulation Clicker is web 1.0 and web 3.0 having a fight inside one browser window". https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/stimulation-clicker-is-web-10-and-web-30-having-a-fight-inside-one-browser-window. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sarkar, Arka (January 7, 2025). "How to play Stimulation Clicker, the newest game from Infinite Craft's Neal.fun". https://www.destructoid.com/how-to-play-stimulation-clicker-the-newest-game-from-infinite-crafts-neal-fun/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Holt, Kris (January 9, 2025). "Stimulation Clicker is a nightmarish free browser game powered by internet brainrot". https://www.engadget.com/gaming/stimulation-clicker-is-a-nightmarish-free-browser-game-powered-by-internet-brainrot-134537169.html. 
  5. ↑ Benson, Madison (January 7, 2025). "Can you win Stimulation Clicker?". https://www.destructoid.com/can-you-win-stimulation-clicker/. 
  6. ↑ Agarwal, Neal [@nealagarwal] (January 6, 2025). "Stimulation Clicker, the worst webpage, is out now!". https://twitter.com/nealagarwal/status/1876292777501131140. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Rosenberg, Yair (27 January 2025). "The Worst Page on the Internet" (in en). The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/internet-browser-game-website/681461/. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Press-Reynolds, Kieran (11 February 2025). "With Clicks Into Oblivion, Frying Your Brain Is Fun". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/arts/stimulation-clicker.html. 
  9. ↑ Kaur, Tessa (January 11, 2025). "Stimulation Clicker Is Cookie Clicker For The TikTok Generation". https://www.thegamer.com/stimulation-clicker-is-cookie-clicker-for-the-tiktok-generation/. 
  10. ↑ Bolding, Jonathan (8 February 2025). "Stimulation Clicker distills a decade of internet brainrot into exposure therapy that makes you stupid—plus, it's free!" (in en). PC Gamer. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/stimulation-clicker-distills-a-decade-of-internet-brainrot-into-exposure-therapy-that-makes-you-stupid-plus-its-free/. 

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