Few games have accurately captured the experience of online brain overload like Stimulation Clicker, a new free browser game by Neal Agarwal (creator of Infinite Craft, The Password Game, and more). This is a clicker game in the style of Banana or Universal Paperclips, but it’s also a parody of clicker games and the whole concept of clicking as a dopamine release.
Stimulation Clicker starts off simply enough, with just a tantalizing button in the middle of your browser screen that says “Click Me.” Clicking on it earns you one Stimulation point; clicking it a second time earns you another Stimulation point. Once you’ve got 3 Stimulation points, you can unlock a DVD logo that will bounce around your browser screen. You may remember watching this screen as a mindless way to pass the time as a bored teenager. This is like that. But it’s also so much more.
Soon, Stimulation Clicker transports the player beyond the bored pastimes of ’90s kids and into the mindless loop of a present-day internet scroll feed. The more Stimulation points you earn, the more you can fill your screen with bullshit. This includes (but is not limited to): lofi beats to relax/study to. Slime videos. ASMR. An audio feed of a true crime podcast about a dead woman who worked as a mermaid in one of those resorts where women wear mermaid tails (except she also maybe had actual gills? I’m not sure, because I couldn’t hear the rest of the podcast over the other videos that I began to unlock).
Stimulation Clicker gets shockingly difficult after a while due to how overstimulating it becomes. The more extras you unlock, the harder it is to deal with having the app open at all. Not so much a game, in the end, as a terrifying art project. Congratulations to Agarwal on thoroughly rattling my brain and possibly using up all the dopamine I had reserved for my workday.
Source：https://www.polygon.com/review/504701/stimulation-clicker-free-browser-game
