# Cookie Empire: Idle Clicker — Tap Tycoon Incremental Game

> Idle incremental baking tycoon with automation, minigames, and ascension mechanics. (iPhone/iPad app by Alejandro Jimenez Rico.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cookie-empire-idle-clicker/id6471402254 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alejandro Jimenez Rico](https://appshunter.io/developer/1638610472)
- Category: Games, Casual, Strategy
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.50/5 from 640 App Store ratings · 265 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 57 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2023-11-21
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cookie-empire-idle-clicker/id6471402254/reviews.md

## What is Cookie Empire?

Cookie Empire is an idle incremental clicker with a dark sense of humor: tap to bake, automate production, earn offline, and prestige for exponential growth — until one big cookie becomes a baking empire that probably shouldn't exist.

What starts as a simple tapping game grows into a long-term incremental game with upgrades, automation, ascension, minigames, and a few increasingly questionable grandmas.

THE ECONOMY MUST GROW.
COOKIES ARE ALL WE KNOW.

Hire lovely grandmas. Build farms, factories, alchemy labs, mines, and machines that should probably never have been switched on. Dig into eldritch mines. Sacrifice grandmas to Japanese demons. Follow the numbers upward until the bakery stops feeling cozy and starts feeling like something ancient is watching the production graph.

FEATURES
• Tap-to-bake progression with exponential upgrades
• Grandmas, farms, factories, mines, and stranger production systems
• Automation, prestige, ascension, and long-term incremental growth
• Garden, mine expeditions, stock market, lucky wheel, tile matching, and leaderboards
• Idle production and return rewards
• Dark secrets, cosmetic skins, frequent solo-dev updates, and a cookie economy that absolutely refuses to stop growing

Build your cookie empire one tap at a time.

## Key features

- Incremental cookie baking
- Automation and complex synergies
- Offline progress
- Multiple minigames (Farming, Stock Market, Lucky Wheel, Tile Matching)
- Ascension/Prestige mechanics
- Grandma sacrifice to demons
- Public leaderboards

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| No-Ads | $4.99 | one-time |
| Seasonal Pack | $9.99 | one-time |
| Gems Small Pack 2 | $3.99 | one-time |
| Gems 1.2 | $1.99 | one-time |
| Gems Mid Pack | $5.99 | one-time |
| Big Gems Pack | $9.99 | one-time |
| Largest Gems Pack | $39.99 | one-time |
| Larger Gems Pack | $24.99 | one-time |
| Mini Gem Pack | $0.99 | one-time |
| Medium Gems Pack | $1.99 | one-time |
| Large Gems Pack | $4.99 | one-time |
| 53 Wings | $0.99 | one-time |
| Magic Cookie | $0.99 | one-time |
| Permanent Boost | $1.99 | one-time |
| Time Warp | $2.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Cookie Empire?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Fun Little Idle Game
- 👍 THIS is how iOS games should be
- 👍 Great game, no ads
- 👍 Anxiety Relief
- 👍 Quality game
- 👍 Go-To Destressor Game
- 👍 Best cookie clicker clone
- 👍 Fav Idle Game
- 👍 Quality UI
- 👍 Passion project

**Cons**

- 🐛 Offline progress locked
- 🐛 Putting the main idle mechanic behind an ad
- 🔋 High battery drain
- 🐛 Wasted Potential
- 🐛 Losing progress
- 🐛 Stuck
- 🐛 Crashes after opening
- 🐛 Upgrade issues

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Offline progress not working
- Ascension issues
- Alchemy lab not working
- Upgrades not appearing
- Crashes after updates
- Resets progress
- Rotating screen issues

**Most requested features**

- Add backbone please
- More audio suggestions
- Ability to see vegetables in the garden
- Volleyball skin
- Achievements
- More menu buttons
- Prestige system
- More buildings and upgrades
- Ability to see how many of a building can be bought
- Cookie SFX

## Recent user reviews (10 of 265)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cookie-empire-idle-clicker/id6471402254/reviews.md

### 4/5 — This dev is doing things right

*2026-08-09*

I had to bring it down a star. Remove ads purchase is misleading. All remove ads does is removes the ad requirement to collect offline earnings like every other idle game already does for free. Still have to go through ads for whatever else. A genuinely good idle clicker that is not built on ads first. You can tell they care about making the game better and not doing everything to optimize ad delivery. Multiple mini games that combine pieces of many other idle games in to one app. This things under rated and deserves much more attention and downloads.

### 3/5 — Decent

*2026-08-07, version 5.22*

It's a good game. Ads, sure, the game's free. But it's buggy. The ads usually don't work by saying unavailable when i have full wifi and full reception. I also have this bug on newest update that makes my game repeat the same thing in time over and over so i can't get any progress whatsoever.

### 3/5 — Was having fun then lost everything.

*2026-07-18*

Had been playing a few months and really enjoyed it. Even made a few in app purchases. Today I went in and my cps had dropped from the high ds to the as. Gave it a few hours hoping it would resolve but it never did. Then like an idiot I uninstalled it thinking reinstalling it might serve as a fix. Now it’s all gone. I guess that’s on me but feels strange a game that allows you to spend real world money wouldn’t attempt to make your progress recoverable.

**Developer response:** hey! there's a button on the settings page to restore progress! go there and you should get everything back! if you don't, please message me on Discord and I'll sort you out: https://discord.gg/zXzJJ8uqKK

### 3/5 — No Ads Broken?!?

*2026-07-15, version 5.20*

Great game and super enjoyable but purchasing the ad free option I expect to be able to skip ads - not have to watch them all still. What the heck?!? Please address this asap!

### 3/5 — Decent

*2026-07-13, version 5.19*

It's a good game. Ads, sure, the game's free. But it's buggy. The ads usually don't work by saying unavailable when i have full wifi and full reception. I also have this bug on newest update that makes my game repeat the same thing in time over and over so i can't get any progress whatsoever.

### 5/5 — iOS bug

*2026-06-30, version 5.17*

On iOS the ui bugs idk why:/

### 2/5 — Game never loads still after 1.15

*2026-06-22, version 5.17*

I like how the devs reply to our comments here and try to fix things but my loading screen still don’t load I am in a 15 pro thug game needs to be fixed

### 4/5 — Great game!

*2026-06-15, version 5.16*

Loving this clicker! So much to do! Only issue is the farm screen. I can’t see the bottom option of the farm. It looks like something pops up but I can’t see it behind the menu. Playing on iPad

### 1/5 — Game never loads

*2026-06-15, version 5.16*

I used to play this game and it was very fun and today I wanted to come back to it but no matter what I do. It won’t load 😡

### 2/5 — Unplayable

*2026-06-14, version 5.16*

Game won’t load even after I wait for atleast a few minutes

## Frequently asked questions about Cookie Empire

### What is Cookie Empire: Idle Clicker?

Cookie Empire: Idle Clicker is an idle incremental game where players tap to bake cookies, automate production, and build a vast cookie empire. It features deep mechanics, various minigames, and a unique lore that unfolds as you progress.

### What are the key features of this game?

Key features include incremental cookie baking, automation with complex synergies, offline progress, multiple minigames like farming and a stock market simulator, ascension mechanics, and a unique mechanic involving sacrificing grandmas to demons. It also offers public leaderboards.

### Is Cookie Empire: Idle Clicker free to play?

Yes, the game is free to play. It offers in-app purchases, allowing players to enhance their experience, but it does not feature any exploitative mechanics or forced advertisements.

### Can I play Cookie Empire: Idle Clicker offline?

Yes, the game supports offline progress. You can return to the game after being away and find that your cookie production has continued, allowing you to accumulate resources even when not actively playing.

### What is the 'sacrifice grandmas' mechanic?

This is a unique and dark-humored mechanic within the game where players can sacrifice grandmas to eldritch Japanese demons. This action is part of the game's cryptic lore and contributes to uncovering the mysteries of 'The Fall'.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.22 — 2026-07-28

Something stirred beneath the bakery. The cookies refuse to elaborate.

### 5.21 — 2026-07-16

Freshly baked tweaks, smoother taps, and a little behind-the-scenes cookie magic. Nothing dramatic—just a tastier, tidier empire. Happy baking!

### 5.20 — 2026-07-14

Improves iCloud sync reliability, fixes Tiny Garden dragging on iPad and resized windows, polishes wealth formatting, and includes stability and performance improvements.

### 5.19 — 2026-07-09

Adds a Restore Purchases button in Settings, so your purchases and permanent unlocks can be recovered when you switch devices or reinstall. Also brings big performance fixes for smoother gameplay, especially on long-running saves.

### 5.18 — 2026-07-03

Improves save recovery so progress is preserved after startup or iCloud issues, fixes cases where the recovery screen could freeze, and tunes late-game ascension balance.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*