Infiniclick Review

No one better snitch on me using totally legal software

Coming in with a rare review for an incremental game. This sounds a bit embarrassing, but I didn’t know that clicker and idle games had an umbrella term for them. Makes it easier describing Infiniclick in particular since it does mix idle and clicker genre together. Well, anyway, I rarely play incremental games. I think it’s a mix of not being interested in the majority of the games and just wanting a balance of the game having substance, interaction, and idling. If you checked out my demo impression, you can even see this as I mentioned I wasn’t planning on playing this until after I saw the trailer. So, after the demo pulled me in, did the full game manage to do a home run?

In Infiniclick, the story here is more of a framing device to explain why you’re doing what you’re doing and to give an ending point for you to strive for. Taking place entirely on a faux desktop, it turns out that you accrued a huge debt with Fun Corp to the tune of 2,218,210L (I’m pretty sure it’s the Turkish lira ₺, but I’m going to use “L” since that’s what an achievement uses). We don’t learn exactly how our character got in debt other than it was due to their past actions towards Fun Corp and you fell for the trap they set for you. Either way, Fun Corp has you in its grasp now and it wants its money back. Don’t worry Fun Corp is going to help you. Using their software, you’ll earn money to pay off your debt in six easy installments. At least you don’t have a deadline. In addition to buying more programs and upgrades to increase your earning power. You’re not totally alone in this as someone just going by “D” also contacts you. D is a hacker and he’s here to make this a more level playing field with his totally legal software and hacks that you can also buy.

The story here is simple and it does its job. That’s all this game needed and it’s good enough for me.

Gameplay here is pretty simple, which you probably guessed with this being an incremental game and all. You start with just one program, free of charge from Fun Corp, that is a clicker minigame as you’ll be clicking a button that is said to remotely complete CAPTCHAs. Once you make your first payment, which won’t take long, you’ll be introduced to the next couple programs that will greatly increase your earnings. Your next installment does increase how much you need to pay, but at the same time new programs are added to the shop. And honestly, towards the end you do earn money pretty fast. Anyway, there are a couple program types that you’ll be buying and using. There are ones that require some interaction from you like the aforementioned CAPTCHA program and a Traffic Fine program where you remotely issue traffic fines based on what you see in the image and the speed that was clocked. There are also ones that are more like minigames, like Chiss (which is kinda like Chess but kinda not). These don’t feel like big money makers, but they give you something to do and you can’t go wrong with more money. Then you have the idle programs, which basically come in a set as you’ll have at least one that generates resources and another that uses those resources to earn money. Like a farm that generates crops or animal byproducts that then another program will use to create food items to sell for money. In the late game, you’ll also be generating items to use in the minigame-esque programs.

Alongside the Fun Corp approved programs are the totally legit programs and hacks that you can grab on your hacker friend’s pirate shop. These do cost money as well, but these do help out quite a lot as they bring in automation and the ability to trick the faux desktop so you can run more and more programs. Like, the first program you get from him is automatic cursors which add in extra cursors that auto click after so many seconds. The hacks, meanwhile, act kind of like an upgrade that you can disable or enable at will once you buy it. Hacks are more for the more game-y programs and most of them do help out like auto using a potion when the wolf character is under a certain amount of health in Wolf’s Revenge program. The pirate shop also updates after you make a payment or after you buy a program that the shop has hacks for.

Every program, whether it’s Fun Corp approved or a totally legit program, will have its own set of upgrades so you can make it more effective. It depends on the program, but generally you’ll be able to increase how much money you’ll earn, how fast the idle program workers are, how much resources are produced, add in a luck element, or increase an aspect of it (like more auto cursors or more traffic fines that you can report). The majority of the upgrades will also let you upgrade it multiple times, making it more effective, until you max it out. And of course, the price of the upgrades depends on the program (later programs have more expensive upgrade prices), what the upgrade is, and what tier it’s on (as it increases the higher you go).

So yeah, while you will be using everything at your disposal to earn money, how you spend it is up to you. Sure, you can just pay each installment right as you get the required money, but wouldn’t you rather spend it on upgrades first? Which program will you focus on upgrading first? Which upgrade will you grab? Will you use up all your money on this one upgrade or use it for several upgrades for the same or a different program? Which programs will you completely automate and which ones will you keep running on your faux desktop? It’s all up to how you want to play and progress upgrades wise. Meanwhile, the main progression where you’re paying off each payment installment works well in slowly introducing you to new programs so you don’t get totally overwhelmed, caps your earning potential, and acts as a big goal that you’re striving for.

Infiniclick starts out pretty slow and slowly builds up, but once you get going you’ll be rolling in dough. Granted, the prices increase too, but still you’ll be earning so much money. It was pretty satisfying going from barely earning enough to having so much money in the bank and even more so seeing it climb so fast when I used it to buy upgrades. I ended up not paying the payment until I fully upgraded the programs I currently had, which also introduced me to the satisfying feeling of being able to buy a ton of upgrades right off the bat (and sometimes almost maxing out the program from the get go). Plus I did end up playing this in one session despite how annoyed I got at one point. So I guess this game did hit that dopamine goal.

If you want more after playing the story, there is another mode for you to try out. Called Random Mode, it’s actually unlocked from the beginning and it basically just challenges you to get to a million L as fast as you can. All programs are available from the start and every minute you’ll get to pick a random modifier out of three. Modifiers can range from getting a chunk of money to something like increasing profits/resources in one program while decreasing it in another. There’s also an achievement tied to Random Mode which is…fun if you have the urge to 100% this game.

As for negatives that Infiniclick has, I feel it’s going to depend on personal preferences. Like for me, the Chiss program was a bit annoying since you can be unlucky with bad RNG and get terrible pieces (but there’s a little trick you can do to avoid losing rank wink wink). My other complaint with Chiss (how much you rank up/down being inconsistent) was patched while I was writing this so that’s good (though I am lowkey glad I got that achievement as I got some big rank up jumps that made it less annoying). Other than that, I didn’t really like the tower defense program. I personally don’t like tower defense games to begin with, but I felt there could have been more automation with it (like auto hiring fighters) and found increasing enemy speed backfires as it overwhelms your fighters. I also think it would have been nice if you could see how much a program earns rather than trying to read the quick pop ups. Granted, I just want this so you can weigh whether you want to automate an app or not easier. Lastly, I wished the programs in Random Mode were organized by either the order you get them in during Story Mode or by price.

Infiniclick does have some light music so you’re not playing in silence (well in silence with the occasional sound effect from one of the programs). Though, I do recommend listening to something else (like a podcast or a video you don’t need to pay much attention to) as that’s what I did. Visually, Infiniclick looks pretty nice and slick. I found the pixel art for the idle programs pretty cute, the program icons look real nice, and I like how the faux desktop looks. It does take a bit to get used to the program taskbar being on the bottom, but that’s all.

Performance is pretty good here. I did have some lag here and there, but it didn’t affect my earnings.

Verdict

I liked Infiniclick. There was a point in my playthrough where I got a bit annoyed, but I did overall like my time with the game and even went to get most of the achievements. It could have went a bit further with it, but I did like the theming of the game and it hit that balance of interaction and idle for me. I also did like that it was only a couple hours long. I’d say Infiniclick is worth it. If it does peak your interest, but you’re not quite sure, definitely check out the demo. Especially if you’re like me and rarely play incremental games.