Cookie Clicker vs Tiny Pixel Farm
Cookie Clicker
Cookie Clicker is a pretty interesting idle-clicking game where the story - there is one surprisingly - mainly involves your somewhat comical attempts at baking chocolate chip cookies. Every click on the large cookie on the screen will earn you a cookie and you can collect more cookies to purchase a variety of upgrades on the right, including an auto-clicker cursor, a nice grandma who will help you bake more cookies and setting up a cookie farm where cookie seeds will grow cookie plants. There are tons of achievements to be obtained too!Besides its obvious humor, Cookie Clicker is a pretty fun and satisfying idle game, so much so that the developers have released a sequel, aptly named Cookie Clicker 2, so that fans of this game will be able to continue their adventure of creating the ultimate cookie-making empire.
Tiny Pixel Farm
Tiny Pixel Farm is an idle farming game that is unlike any other. Backed with a heartfelt story about an elderly farmer whose farmland is slowly being claimed by greedy corporate goons, in this game, you play as the grandchild of the said farmer and you are determined to reclaim what was rightfully your family's.Although the gameplay is generally idle in nature, the idle part of the game isn't exactly textbook-styled. As opposed to fully automating everything, you still need to put in some "work" for instance, by swiping and tapping on your animals to collect produce, on your hay-producing farms to collect hay, on your pets to collect exp gems, and others. Aside from the well-design and satisfying progression system in this game, there is an insane number of animals you can keep at the farm too.
The game is also very "video ad-heavy" mainly because you will always be given an option to watch video ads in exchange for instantly completing something, be it a construction process or selling all the goods in your shop. However, what I really like about the game is how it gives you a heads-up whenever a full-screen ad is coming up and it also thanks you after you've watched a video ad. More games should seriously take a page out of this game's book and do this!
All in all, although this game does require a good (middle range to high-end) mobile device to run, Tiny Pixel Farm brings a ton of innovation to the idle gaming genre and the game does it so brilliantly well. If you enjoy idle games, farm games or both, you might want to give this game a try.