Attack on Moe

It's times like this I start to question my own tastes in games. 

So a few days ago I was drunk in a bar and at one point in the evening I took to looking at one of my social media applications.  An advert popped up for a game called "Attack on Moe" which depicted a dude fighting giant anime girls that lost their clothes when you beat them in combat.

So OF COURSE I fucking downloaded it

What I found was a fan service clicking game similar to that of cookie clicker but instead of cookies its monsters and anime girls.  The game is very simple, you tap the thing until it dies and you do this until you get a boss.  Then you have to tap the boss until it dies but you're on a time limit for that and if you kill it then you progress to the next stage.  Every 5 stages you get to fight a "Moetan" which is a big anime girl which when defeated, goes into a "Moepedia" (seeing a theme here?) and then you can sort of rub them down for bonuses and images of them slowly losing more and more items of clothing.

As you do all this you earn money which you can use to buy upgrades for you guy as well as hero characters that will support you and farm you more money while you're offline.  There's also a "PVP" feature where you and a friend see who can mash this fastest and you earn points which earn you various rewards as you do this every handful of hours.  There's also premium currency which you can buy/earn by playing which allows you to buy items that increase stats or unlock more anime girls for you to fight in later stages.

There's not much to say about it other than it's just a fucking clicking game.  It's the kind of thing you fiddle with for about 30 seconds to a minute at a time when you're taking a shit or REALLY bored on a train or something.  I'd say it's worth checking out because if I'm going to waste my time monotonously tapping things the experience is so much better with some anime titties to go with it.

"Clicker" Is a Genre Now?

So recently I've seen a few of these games pop up on Steam and there are probably tons more of these kind of games on mobile devices but I can't help but ask why the fuck does anyone bother with these kind of games?

Clicker, as far as I'm aware, started out a few years ago with a silly browser based game called Cookie Clicker.  I'm not sure if this was the first "Clicker" game but it was the first one that I caught wind of that had any kind of attention given to it.  Admittedly, I played it for a while and even made a blog post about it which you can find if you use the search function at the top.  But after a day or two of leaving it idle in the background to gather cookies things got dull and me and my fellow cookie clicking buddies never touched or heard of it again.

Then recently I start seeing all these fucking clicking games on Steam.  Clicker Heroes, Time Clickers, Tap Tap Infinity and most recently Sakura Clicker which comes will full on paid DLC.  This is just on Steam alone but I dread to think how many of these kind of games are on iOS or the android store.

I just don't see the appeal of these titles and who are these people playing these games to warrant multiple people to develop their on spin on "click the thing until the numbers get bigger".  They are the very definition of a pointless time sink and even stupid mobile games like Puzzle and Dragon have more worth as games than these piles of stupid bullshit.

Just thinking about Steam alone, go and check out their free to play section and there are quite a few actual fucking games that you could be playing instead of these stupid clicker things.  Hell, You Have To Win The Game alone is EASILY more worth your time than any of the 4 clicker titles I mentioned two paragraphs ago and you should go play that instead.  At least that is an actual game

I KIND of see the appeal of these kind of thing as a browser based game that you fuck about with during boring moments at work, or as a mobile thing that you can fuck with for a few seconds while you wait to cross a road or something but Jesus Christ, Steam.  You have literally thousands of games, some of them free and some of them less than £4 that you could be playing and instead there are people choosing to play this brain dead crap?!

Oh well, guess I really shouldn't judge, but these games will play themselves and I like to actually have some input towards doing well in a title, but that's just me.