Cookie Clicker vs Griefhelm
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.
Griefhelm
Griefhelm is a realistic 2D medieval sword-fighting game with a Slay the Spire-like progression and a pretty brutal difficulty level in the sense that if you let your opponent get in a couple of hits, you’re dead. Offering several game modes and perks, the game focuses a lot on timing your actions to best your opponent on the battlefield.Since timing is crucial in this game, you’d best be vigilant of the several combat cues your enemies may make a split second before the animation starts. If you do it precisely right, then you might just survive the attacks and even find a few openings of your own to strike. This game is definitely not the mindless hack-and-slash that many other games seem to offer. Every action you take in this game is deliberate and this makes every successful kill so much more satisfying.
Now, all of these fights are scattered across nodes in a progression map that’s somewhat similar to Slay the Spire. What this means is that you’ve got a choice as to which path you want to take and, in this game, you’ll usually have at least 2. Different paths offer different levels and types of challenges, and hence, different rewards so it’s important for you to decide which reward is most worthwhile for you.
To sum up, Griefhelm is truly in a class of its own. I’ve seen many players compare the game disfavorably against Nidhogg and that may be true, but for someone who has only played For Honor before, Griefhelm really brings swordplay to a different dimension… literally (Hint: 2D as opposed to 3D)!