Few video games have precisely captured the expertise of on-line mind overload like Stimulation Clicker, a brand new free browser recreation by Neal Agarwal (creator of Infinite Craft, The Password Recreation, and extra). This can be a clicker recreation within the type of Banana or Common Paperclips, however it’s additionally a parody of clicker video games and the entire idea of clicking as a dopamine launch.
Stimulation Clicker begins off merely sufficient, with only a tantalizing button in the course of your browser display that claims “Click on Me.” Clicking on it earns you one Stimulation level; clicking it a second time earns you one other Stimulation level. When you’ve bought 3 Stimulation factors, you’ll be able to unlock a DVD emblem that may bounce round your browser display. Chances are you’ll keep in mind watching this display as a senseless strategy to go the time as a bored teenager. That is like that. But it surely’s additionally a lot extra.
Quickly, Stimulation Clicker transports the participant past the bored pastimes of ’90s children and into the senseless loop of a present-day web scroll feed. The extra Stimulation factors you earn, the extra you’ll be able to fill your display with bullshit. This contains (however will not be restricted to): lofi beats to chill out/examine to. Slime movies. ASMR. An audio feed of a real crime podcast a couple of lifeless lady who labored as a mermaid in a type of resorts the place ladies put on mermaid tails (besides she additionally perhaps had precise gills? I’m undecided, as a result of I couldn’t hear the remainder of the podcast over the opposite movies that I started to unlock).
Stimulation Clicker will get shockingly troublesome after some time as a consequence of how overstimulating it turns into. The extra extras you unlock, the more durable it’s to take care of having the app open in any respect. Not a lot a recreation, in the long run, as a terrifying artwork challenge. Congratulations to Agarwal on completely rattling my mind and presumably utilizing up all of the dopamine I had reserved for my workday.
