Clicker Heroes
Click a monster until it dies, hire heroes to click for you, then ascend and do the whole thing again much faster.
Clicker Heroes was released in 2014 and is the game that defined the modern idle genre. You click a monster, it drops gold, the gold hires a hero who deals damage automatically, and the heroes let you reach monsters you could never have clicked down.
The real game is the ascension loop. At some point progress grinds to a halt, and resetting converts your progress into permanent souls that buy multipliers, so the next run reaches the old wall in a fraction of the time. Knowing when to let go of a run you have invested an hour in is the actual skill, and it is a surprisingly hard one.
Controls
Mouse only: click monsters to attack, click heroes to hire and level them
Tips
- Level the newest hero you can afford. Later heroes are worth orders of magnitude more than upgrading an old one.
- Ascend as soon as progress visibly stalls. Grinding a wall is always slower than restarting with the multiplier.
- Idle damage overtakes clicking quickly, so spend on heroes rather than click upgrades after the first few levels.