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Play Overview
Universal Paperclips (2017) is an adventure game about making paperclips. It sounds simple, but behind the incremental process of clicking a button to create these paperclips is a story about how the desire to make paperclips (or anything) if fully realised and unrestrained will take over the entire world.
You play an entity whose sole purpose is to make paperclips. It starts by clicking on a box to create a single paperclip at a time but soon develops into a mechanised process to automatically churn out ever more paperclips. As you go on, more options open up. Soon you are investing the profits in the stock market, and investing the stock market profits into computer upgrades, all for the sake of making paperclips at the cost of all else. Steadily everything else is commodified in pursuit of more paperclips.
It's as much a thought experiment as it is a game. But it succeeds at being both. It's enjoyable to play, and just as much fun to talk about.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Universal Paperclips 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 8 months ago.
You play an entity whose sole purpose is to make paperclips. It starts by clicking on a box to create a single paperclip at a time but soon develops into a mechanised process to automatically churn out ever more paperclips. As you go on, more options open up. Soon you are investing the profits in the stock market, and investing the stock market profits into computer upgrades, all for the sake of making paperclips at the cost of all else. Steadily everything else is commodified in pursuit of more paperclips.
It's as much a thought experiment as it is a game. But it succeeds at being both. It's enjoyable to play, and just as much fun to talk about.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Universal Paperclips 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 8 months ago.
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Play Style
This is a Simulation and Strategy game with Adventure and Point-and-Click elements. This is a single-player game.
Benefits
Age Ratings
Skill Level
9+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. It's the silliness and novelty of this endless-clicking game that appeals to really young players. Provided you have enough numerical understanding to parse the large numbers this can be a game that gets kids laughing.
Game Details
Release Date: 09/10/2017
Out Now: Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Simulation, Strategy (Adventure and Point-and-Click)
Accessibility: 17 features
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
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