I've spent way too long playing games about managing numbers, but i fail to do this effectively in life and i realize i end up spending way too much time sucked into imaginary worlds and not enough time focused on things i should. I try to limit my gaming to platformers and arcade type games these days. I'll play fortresses until it takes ten minutes to do shit from fps death or spend several evenings in Cataclysm building a base and collecting food and resources and crap. I get into dwarf fortress and CDDA every once in a while until i start to realize how much time i waste on them. I realized one day i'd played for several hours but had done nothing but craft things and organize my storage and inventory. I've realized through personal experience, I get too into games with experience, status bars and things to manage. I've gotta admit, I've avoided anything with clicker in the description these days because of that experience. Some clicker-games have this awful behavior, but the good ones tend to avoid it. Honestly, the dumb skinner-box grind is far more present in mainstream games (MMORPGs, Loot Crates). In Universal Paperclips, you build a few paperclips one-at-a-time at the beginning of the game. There's just a 'click' mechanic to connect the player with the absolute baseline activity of the game. Clicker Heroes does have an infinite grind however, so it loses points in my eyes.ДЄll in all, a clicker-game is simply a management game, like Sim City. As you purchase heroes, the game is more about figuring out the optimal distribution of hero levels. Which is why I consider it to be one of the better clicker games.Д¬licker Heroes also manages to make the jump into a solid management simulator. So you're 'free' once you see the ending (unlike a lot of other games). In a similar way, Universal Paperclips is a management game, and with an ending to boot. The 'clicks' are there to give a sense of scale (it takes ~2 seconds for a beginning player to mine 1-iron). Of course, Factorio is a management game, but at its core, its a clicker game (click to mine Iron / Copper / Stone).ДЇactorio becomes recognized as a good Management game because although the 'clicker' mechanic exists to mine stuff, it isn't actually how the player is supposed to play. Instead, a good clicker game is really a management simulator.ДЇactorio is probably the best example: build your factory correctly, and you never have to lift a finger to do any work at all. However, a GOOD clicker game (such as one with Universal Paperclips) recognizes that the genre is not about dopamine rushes.

That's certainly one way to think about clicker games, and it probably applies to most clicker games I know of.

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