The economy must grow. Cookies are all we know.
Cookie Empire is an idle incremental clicker with a dark sense of humor: tap to bake, automate production, earn offline, and prestige for exponential growth — until one big cookie becomes a baking empire that probably shouldn't exist.
What starts as a simple tapping game grows into a long-term incremental game with upgrades, automation, ascension, minigames, and a few increasingly questionable grandmas.
THE ECONOMY MUST GROW.
COOKIES ARE ALL WE KNOW.
Hire lovely grandmas. Build farms, factories, alchemy labs, mines, and machines that should probably never have been switched on. Dig into eldritch mines. Sacrifice grandmas to Japanese demons. Follow the numbers upward until the bakery stops feeling cozy and starts feeling like something ancient is watching the production graph.
FEATURES
• Tap-to-bake progression with exponential upgrades
• Grandmas, farms, factories, mines, and stranger production systems
• Automation, prestige, ascension, and long-term incremental growth
• Garden, mine expeditions, stock market, lucky wheel, tile matching, and leaderboards
• Idle production and return rewards
• Dark secrets, cosmetic skins, frequent solo-dev updates, and a cookie economy that absolutely refuses to stop growing
Build your cookie empire one tap at a time.
I love this game but when I get back on I don’t really like that you have to watch a ad to get the cookies you got while off the app I think that should be free but the cookies being generated are slowed down when you get off the app and you could get 2x for 1 ad 5x for 10 ads 50x for 50 ads but idk if you could do that lol well nice game 10/10 will play again and probably get sleep deprived lol OH YEAH before I end this you should add a subscription where you could get 2x cookies off the app for 5 buckaroos a month but I wouldn’t buy it personally I just think it is a great idea for the w love the dev once again 10/10 will play again. PLEASE RESPOND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WEWEPLEASE PLEASE OK MY thumb hurts byee 🤭
Developer Response
thanks for an awesome review! 😊 I can't promise anything, but I'll definitely consider your ideas! thanks for taking the time to try my game and giving such a wholesome review! ❤️
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Hititorquit2018
I would just like to start with this being an amazing game that has brought a better version of cookie clicker. Why do I give it 3/5 then? Let’s start with lack of tutorials for the mini games. Most don’t explain well the only 2 explained in depth are the garden and tiny tiles. There are 3 more and 2 don’t need as much explaining. Some is a wheel of fortune essentially, enough said, the other is a stock market, needs some tutorial but also a little self explanatory, lastly and most concerning is the mine. You send characters in to mine, it takes X amount of time and you get either nothing, gold or ORES! guess what you use those ores to upgrade things well one option is to turn the ores into crystals (non of this is explained AT ALL) the other is to spend them on other upgrades. We’ll get this folks, I spent my ores on the upgrades rather than crystals which at that point has taken 2 days of pretty consistent game time and the upgrades that you get have a 24 hour activation…. Thank you for wasting my time! It’s stay 3 until tutorial is provided and 4/5 until the activation is removed. It peeved me that much. An upgrade that takes me 2 days to get to waisted after 24hours.
Developer Response
hi! thanks for playing my game and taking the time to give such a thorough feedback. I tried to design all minigames to be so self-explanatory that no tutorial is needed. From what you say, I understand I've succeeded at that on all minigames except on the Mine Exploration one. It's easily the hardest minigame, but can also be the more profitable! What you mention about the pickaxes could definitely have been explained better, as they are actually kinda OP if you know how to distribute your ore pieces. But yeah, part of the risk-reward in them is that they degrade over time and you need to be careful about how and when to invest on them. Crystals upgrades are permanent though, but not nearly as powerful. I'll make a point to explain these things better to avoid frustration. Thank you for providing feedback, I really do appreciate it and helps me make a better game. If you ever want to join us on the Discord (https://discord.gg/qfCMQ36nE7) I regularly discuss balancing and game design decisions with the community. I'm sure your insight will be very useful
Overall current review
UnknownJmf
Honestly I like the game! I feel that some things could be explained a bit more in game though. Like with the new ascension update; you can ascend and it sounds cool but it's not really explained on what it does before hand. I feel something should be explained on what they do before you buy them. Same thing with the farm, you don't know what you're getting exactly until you spend billions of cookies on it. I also feel that there should be more types of plants on the farm as well, they can have different buffs and if you think they're gonna be too OP you can just put a debuff on it aswell. But other than the specifics I think this is one of the greatest cookie clicker clones on mobile! The way you put in the ads and in-game purchases was great too!-Update: Hey Dev! I tried to use the discord link you recommended we use in the settings but it says "the invite link is invalid or expired." The link you put there may not have been set to never expire or an infinite amount of uses. But regardless, I think it may need to be changed😅
Developer Response
hey! thank you for such an informative - and fair - review! I'm really glad you like the game. You are right about the information in the Ascension and Garden sections. I'm working on an update that will hopefully improve on that. stay tuned!btw! in the Settings button you'll find a link to our Discord, in case you're interested in discussing the game's development directly with meupdate: oh boy, what an oversight. I'll replace the link on the next update! 😅😅 thanks for pointing it out!
Great idle game
Rithela
It’s practically the same as the game it’s basing itself on and that isn’t a bad thing. There’s still no iOS version of that game after many years of people asking. This definitely scratches that itch. It’s very solid and no forced ads is a huge plus! Unfortunately I can’t say too much about the gameplay because I can only play for a few minutes because this game makes my phone heat up pretty bad and eats battery very fast. The game is not graphically intensive at all so the only thing I can think of is maybe framerate issues? It feels like the framerate could be unlocked with no vsync on. If I do that on my pc, it’ll run hot because the game is running at too high of a framerate. So I suspect it’s the same here. The game has that issue even when airplane mode is on so it’s not like it’s a crypto miner or anything like that! Anyway once that gets fixed I’ll change my review to 5 stars because that problem is the only one I have with the game! Just wish I could play it right now.
Developer Response
hi! thanks for such a thorough and fair review! You're totally right about performance. The issue is an overhead in calculations. Everything is constantly recalculated at every frame. That was my naive way of making sure every little system in the game was always reacting in real time. As the game has grown in complexity, that has come to bite me. I'm now gradually switching many of those calculations so they're triggered after certain "things" take place. Tapping the big cookie, buying a building, etc. Hopefully version 4.53 will be a significant improvement on this front!Thanks for giving my game a chance. I really appreciate it
Something stirred beneath the bakery. The cookies refuse to elaborate.
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Information
Seller
Alejandro Jimenez Rico
Size
59.5 MB
Category
Strategy
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
