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Stimulation Clicker is pure internet hell mode
Few games have accurately captured the experience of online brain overload like Stimulation Clicker, a new free browser game by Neal Agarwal (creator of Infinite Craft, The Password Game, and more). This is a clicker game in the style of Banana or Universal Paperclips, but its also a parody of clicker games and the whole concept of clicking as a dopamine release.Stimulation Clicker starts off simply enough, with just a tantalizing button in the middle of your browser screen that says Click Me. Clicking on it earns you one Stimulation point; clicking it a second time earns you another Stimulation point. Once youve got 3 Stimulation points, you can unlock a DVD logo that will bounce around your browser screen. You may remember watching this screen as a mindless way to pass the time as a bored teenager. This is like that. But its also so much more.Soon, Stimulation Clicker transports the player beyond the bored pastimes of 90s kids and into the mindless loop of a present-day internet scroll feed. The more Stimulation points you earn, the more you can fill your screen with bullshit. This includes (but is not limited to): lofi beats to relax/study to. Slime videos. ASMR. An audio feed of a true crime podcast about a dead woman who worked as a mermaid in one of those resorts where women wear mermaid tails (except she also maybe had actual gills? Im not sure, because I couldnt hear the rest of the podcast over the other videos that I began to unlock).Stimulation Clicker gets shockingly difficult after a while due to how overstimulating it becomes. The more extras you unlock, the harder it is to deal with having the app open at all. Not so much a game, in the end, as a terrifying art project. Congratulations to Agarwal on thoroughly rattling my brain and possibly using up all the dopamine I had reserved for my workday.
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