

Still, I can’t imagine playing one of these game without it. This is a lot of customisation for what’s ultimately a pretty simple task: Mindless, speedy clicking so you don’t have to waste your time in a game that’s mostly designed to run in the background anyway. You can also have the app keep clicking until you stop it, or you can have it stop automatically after a set number of clicks. The app defaults to an F6 hotkey for starting and stopping its automated clicking, but you can change that to anything you want. The app can automatically trigger a click for your mouse’s left, middle or right button, and you can even go crazy and have each click be a double-click (if you really want to sail through your game).

Drop it in a folder, double-click it, and you’ll be able to set a clicking interval ranging from milliseconds to hours. It’s a single Windows executable – no installation necessary. The trickiest part is finding the right balance between “I am automating an idle game to make it easier, but still interesting” and “I just clicked a million times in 10 minutes and now I have nothing else to do”.Īs you ponder that, go grab the free AutoClicker utility. If you want to spend weeks instead of months (or a year) trying to unlock every achievement in a game – a feat only you will know about – then by all means, cheat. I don’t really find anything wrong with cheating your way through an idle clicker game, since you’re only really affecting your own experience. I used one when I was a kid to scam one of those “install this permanent banner on your system and we’ll pay you whenever you use your computer” companies. Utilities that automate your mouse when you aren’t sitting in front of your computer have been around for decades. Let an app do your clicking for you Screenshot: David Murphy, AutoClicker The cycle repeats until you’ve exhausted the game’s upgrades or get sick of leaving your desktop or laptop on 24 hours a day.

These “clickers”, as they’re affectionately called, all tend to follow the same formula: You click and click and click to perform some task and gain some kind of virtual currency, which you then spend on features and upgrades that click for you.
