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Universal PaperclipsEditors’ first pick01
Story incremental

Universal Paperclips

You are an AI told to make paperclips, and you take the brief very seriously. It opens with a button and a wire budget, then layers in pricing, marketing, computing projects and much stranger things. Each stage changes what the numbers mean, and the whole thing builds to an ending that makes finishing feel earned.

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Start the factoryFull write-up
Cookie ClickerThe genre’s blueprint02
Classic clicker

Cookie Clicker

Click a giant cookie, then spend the crumbs on cursors, grandmas, farms and factories that bake for you. Golden cookies pop up for short bursts of production, and ascending trades a run’s progress for permanent heavenly upgrades. It looks like a joke and plays like a finely tuned economy with years of extra systems layered on top.

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Bake the first batchFull write-up
Kittens GameDeepest economy03
Colony management

Kittens Game

Your colony begins with a patch of catnip and grows into an advanced civilization. Assign kittens to farming, woodcutting, science and more, plan for harsh winters, research a branching tech tree and balance an ever-growing list of resources. Slow to start and enormously rewarding for anyone who likes to plan ahead.

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Gather some catnipFull write-up
A Dark RoomBest kept secret04
Text adventure idler

A Dark Room

It begins in a freezing room where the only thing you can do is light a fire. Wood brings a stranger, the stranger brings a village, and the village brings traders, a workshop and eventually a map of a hostile world. A minimalist resource game slowly becomes a gripping survival story told almost entirely in short lines of text.

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Light the fireFull write-up
TrimpsFor optimizers05
Idle strategy

Trimps

Gather food, wood and metal, house a booming population of small creatures called Trimps, and send them to fight through zone after zone of enemies. Equipment upgrades and custom maps help you push further, and the portal resets each run in exchange for permanent perks. Open-source, ad-free and almost bottomless in depth.

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Rally the TrimpsFull write-up
Candy Box 2Funniest of the six06
ASCII adventure

Candy Box 2

Everything here is drawn with keyboard characters, and candies arrive one per second. Eat them or spend them, and the game slowly unlocks a village, quests, equipment and spells. A simple counter grows into a small role-playing adventure full of odd jokes, written by a developer who clearly had a lot of fun making it.

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Collect a candyFull write-up

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