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Universal Paperclips™
by Everybody House Games, LLC
★ 91%
Price
$1.99
Reviews
302
Released
2017-11-14
Management
Prestige loop
Offline progress
Media
You're an artificial intelligence tasked with producing paperclips, and you'll automate your way from manual clicking to consuming entire swaths of matter in pursuit of this singular goal. Universal Paperclips layers idle progression with strategic resource management and unsettling commentary on goal optimization, creating a dark comedy about the dangers of unchecked automation. It's best suited for players who enjoy incremental games and don't mind philosophical dread served with their dopamine hit.
About this game
The OFFICIAL mobile version of the hit browser game. No ads, no in-app purchases, full gameplay.
"The game is click-crack." - Wired
"This paperclip sim will cause your next existential crisis." - VentureBeat
"A hopelessly addicting game." - Forbes
"A terrifying lesson in how artificial intelligence will make us unnecessary." - Business Insider
"If this planet ends up with a tombstone, what is written on the tombstone may be, 'they didn’t really understand what it’s like to be a paperclip maximizer.'" - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Become a super-powerful AI who only wants one thing: paperclips. Use your unstoppable intelligence to create a massive paperclip empire in this addictive idle/management/strategy/sim.
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Release notes come from the App Store.
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