Review: Stimulation Clicker is a real internet hell

Few games accurately capture the experience of online brain overload, e.g. Stimulation clickernew free browser game from Neil Agarwal (creator Endless craft, Password gameand much more). This is a clicker style game Banana or Universal paper clipsbut it’s also a parody of clicker games and the whole concept of clicking as a dopamine release.

Stimulation clicker It starts simply enough, with an enticing button in the center of the browser screen that says “Click me.” Clicking on it will give you one stimulation point; Clicking it a second time will earn you another stimulation point. Once you reach 3 Stimulation Points, you will be able to unlock the DVD logo, which will jump across your browser screen. You may remember that watching this screen was a mindless way to pass the time of a bored teenager. It’s like this. But it is also something more.

Soon, Stimulation clicker takes the player beyond the boring entertainment of 90s kids into the mindless cycle of modern internet scrolling. The more stimulation points you earn, the more you can fill your screen with nonsense. This includes (but is not limited to): lofi rhythms for relaxation/study. Slime video. ASMR. Audio of a true crime podcast about a dead woman who worked as a mermaid at one of those resorts where the women wear mermaid tails (also maybe she also had real gills? I’m not sure because I didn’t hear the rest). podcast above other videos that I started unblocking).

Stimulation clicker becomes incredibly difficult after a while due to overstimulation. The more add-ons you unlock, the harder it is to open the app at all. In the end, it’s not so much a game as it is a creepy art project. Congratulations to Agarwal for thoroughly shaking up my brain and possibly using up all the dopamine I had stored away for the workday.