All You Have to Do Is Click the Button

I… I have no idea what I just went through… Before drafting my little review here, I took a small break because holy moly, I am overstimulated right now since so much was going on! Only to jump back in and give it another try, destroying my finger a little bit more than it already was from the first round. And probably my mouse too. And tbh, being the queen of distraction isn’t probably a help either. Nor the fact that I panic like crazy and behave erratic when it comes to timed stuff. I somehow didn’t last as long in my second or third try. Which honestly made me a little bit salty. But bad RNG can happen, I guess. Or at least I hope it’s just bad RNG and no unbalanced stuff. I’m genuinely too lazy today to figure that out if that’s the case or not. Nevertheless, I’m still going to give this game a thumbs up, despite being a bit bumped out; it’s only a clicker, and there is no idle. And I most likely won’t binge-play it but will return to it now and then for short sessions to see if I have a little bit more luck at some point. And then here I stopped writing to give it one more go, just one more! And holy moly, that run went well. Instead of barely surviving or only getting to …

You’re an anonymous worker stuck clicking a button to survive longer shifts, spending money on perks to fight ads, but with no lasting upgrades between runs. There’s no real story here because you’re just an anonymous cog in the corporate machine. As the title suggests, your sole responsibility is pressing the button. Unlike most clicker-style games, though, there’s a ticking timer. If it runs out, you’re fired. The core gameplay is straightforward. You need to click the button in the middle of the screen to earn money. That money matters, because it lets you buy two main upgrades that help you last longer. A pay raise increases the cash earned per click, while overtime restores a bit of your dwindling time with each press. Your objective is simply to keep clicking until your shift ends. Then a new shift begins, longer than the last but not over 3 minutes, and you repeat the cycle for as long as you can manage. To make things trickier, ads will start popping up on your screen while you work. You can close them quickly by clicking the “X,” or slowly chip away at them by clicking anywhere else on the ad. At first they’re just a nuisance, but later ones are more dangerous, like a…

Game is cheap, but that is not to say that it lacks quality. The actual gameplay loop is pretty entertaining if not moderately overstimulating, but it's charm really comes from the terminal. All sorts of secrets tucked away in there waiting to be found.