Cookie Clicker vs Merchant
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.
Merchant
Merchant is a fun little idle game that's designed to be played on the side, while you're doing something else on the computer. In the game, you'll need to hire heroes who you will then send out on adventures to gather crafting materials. The materials obtained can then be turned into numerous types of armor and weapons, which you can in turn equip on your heroes or sell them off for a tidy profit. There are two main ways for you to sell your goods - you can either put it up for sale in your shop or you can fulfill the orders of passing merchants and heroes.Although the game starts out as pretty fun, the progression in this game gradually becomes rather grindy after a while - imagine: sending the same hero on the same quest will require the same amount of clicks as sending the hero on a new quest or even sending a new hero. Some automation would be great here, especially considering that the game's an idle game.
So, despite the fun concept and gameplay, its progression can truly kill your interest in the game. That being said, if you just want a simple game to play as you watch Netflix or YouTube on your computer, Merchant might just be the kind of game for you!