File this into the category of “now that’s a name I have not heard in a long time” – Cookie Clicker. The endless pursuit of interdimensional cookie hoarding now has a Steam page and will become available for purchase on 1st September 2021.
This version of the game will cost $4.99 (~R74) overseas with no local pricing revealed just yet. The famous in-browser original version of the game still exists and can be played for free right here, and there’s also a free Android app.
Interestingly, on the Steam page under the “visit the website” portion, it will take you to the free web version which you can start playing immediately. This feature is usually used for developers and publishers to take you to a dedicated website for more information about the game, and we can’t say we’ve ever seen it used like this, so it’s very clear that the free options will always be there.
While the official reveal of Cookie Clicker coming to Steam happened on 8th August, the 8th birthday of the game, today developer Orteil shared a Q&A about this port of the game and its differences to the other existing versions. The biggest question is how the Steam version compares to the website.
“The two versions are nearly identical save for some perks that the Steam platform allows for: in addition to being ad-free, Cookie Clicker on Steam gets achievements, cloud saving, workshop support and music by C418. There’s also translations in 11 other languages, but we’ll likely be backporting that to the web version too,” The Q&A reads.
The web version will also remain the lead platform for Cookie Clicker with it and the Steam port receiving continual updates. This is good news for those who just want to remain in a browser and have no intention of going to Steam.
As for the mobile apps things are still moving along albeit a bit slower.
“Android should be getting an update pass early next year; iOS is a very unusual development environment for us so we’re still slowly working things out,” Orteil writes.
An official trailer for the Steam version has been released and is available right here, but embedded below is a video about it from YouTube channel Nerd³ (Daniel Hardcastle) that we remember doing the rounds back in 2013 that helped popularise the game.
[Via – PC Gamer]
