if you immerse yourself into this game -- and i mean total submersion, an unwavering commitment to efficient, effective cookie clicking -- you will come face-to-face with one of the primordial elements of Game. contained herein is the purest distillation of the Skinner box, that most animalistic, Pavlovian instinct buried inside each of us that lights up our synapses every time the number gets bigger. your eyes will reach superhuman attenuation to the slow pseudorandom fade-in of each precious Golden Cookie. you will turn the wiki upside down in a ravenous hunt for the power of cookie knowledge. you will experience billions of years of hunter-killer evolution bearing down on your left mouse button when you encounter your first Click Frenzy x Fever with its utterly broken, overpowered 5,439x cookie multiplier. in time, you will process all of this with the cool demeanor of a professional, unperturbed and unwavering in the quest for exponentiation.

yes, this is a profoundly stupid game, but it is no more absurd than any other game; it is simply honest in its embrace of numeric pornography