The rise of clicker games

Idle is the new active.

When Cookie Clicker first caught the attention of the Internet in 2013, most gamers took it as a joke. That was, until we started to play it. Clicker games (a genre consisting of tapping or clicking the screen for currency to use in customizing or building up resources to get more currency faster) has boiled the tactile satisfaction of the rapid fire mouse-click into its simplest form. And the genre has only grown since.