10 Video Game Where You Can Gamble To Gain Ultimate Power (Or Lose Everything)

Cookie Clicker is the OG of browser idle games, which all the bored students and office workers worldwide use to kill time at the desk.

The more you play it, the more ridiculous the game becomes. You start by clicking the giant cookie on your screen and end up with automated cookie farms, legions of oven-mitt-clad grannies, and finally, dark magic rituals that spawn mounds of chocolate chip goodness from hell.

This stage of the game is when Cookie Clicker becomes less about clicking and more about gambling.

Cookie Clicker’s most beneficial ability, but also the most devastating in the case of failure, is a special spell called Conjure Baked Goods. The ritual allows you to spawn the equivalent of thirty minutes of cookie production in an instant, which can let you significantly expand your doughy empire with the right multipliers involved.

However, the spell has a 15% chance of failure, and the backlash you get should it misfire is just as devastating as the reward is helpful. The consequence of the failed spell is that it removes the results of the last fifteen minutes of your cookie production and lowers your production efficiency to 50% for another quarter hour.

Such is the price of hell-spawn cookies.