Car Demolition Clicker
Idle-clickers are usually pretty hit-or-miss with me. Maybe its the presentation, but I could never really get behind the monotonous idea behind the genre. The very by-the-numbers stock market style of
Adventure Capitalist, or the slightly too straight-forward nerd-culture realm of
Idle Champions were never something I could really get invested in mentally. Give me an incremental-clicker with some good old fashioned demolition and vehicle destructing junkyard antics, though? Now you've got my attention! I'm a simple red-blooded American male, what can I say.
Car Demolition Clicker is a new auto-clicker from the mechanical world the same publishers who brought us the popular
Car Mechanic Simulator. Except this time around this is quite literally an "Auto-Clicker", really, because this time around you're clicking on automobiles.
Gameplay
Car Demolition Clicker is all about being the most satisfying clicker and it really accomplishes that in spades, both visually and with its zen-like destructive interactivity; a factor generally absent from clickers. It's really a pretty simple loop, you click cars with your starter pistol getting that sweet cash for every satisfying shot and slowly build your stockpile of cash from scratch. As you gain more money you upgrade your weapon's rate of fire while gaining access to drones which handle the "auto" side of this auto-clicker, periodically firing on the target for you.
Diamonds are the key to unlocking different game-changing upgrades for your weapons or drones, and obtaining the later and more unique and insane weapons. Diamonds are hard to get and can slowly be obtained randomly from defeated bosses, strong versions of automobiles that whittle away at your health if you don't destroy them fast enough, and nothing is more satisfying than seeing that bright blue diamond shoot spectacularly from a wrecked boss's smoldering remains.
This is where the heavy decision making comes in, and as with any good idle-clicker you're torn between choosing whether to strengthen your manual clicking power (your firearm) or your auto-clicking tool which in this case are your three attack drones. Upgrading your weapon in this game is generally, in my opinion, the superior choice as you slowly gain access to a pretty crazy arsenal of weapons to deconstruct your subjects with in fun and interactive ways.
Visuals/Sound
The high-quality and outlandish visuals of twisted steel and destruction are definitely what separates Car Demolition Clicker from the rest of the clicker pack. They don't just look good and they aren't just there as a set-piece, they're actually surprisingly reactive to your interactions. Doors fly off the hinge when pinpointed with your shots, and tires will pop and deflate when targeted by your cross-hairs. Humongous behemoth tractors decked out in diesel-punk armor like something out of a Mad Max film are reduced and deconstructed to smoldering heaps of twisted steel as you poke them apart like a particular fan-favorite kind of Street Fighter influenced mini-game.
Speaking of Street Fighter, I was pleasantly surprised by the 16-bit soundtrack here in Car Demolition Clicker and its Capcom-esque, arcade spirited, high-energy background tunes. With a more "realistic", gritty automobile presentation to this clicker I pretty much expected a stereotypical butt-rock soundtrack (oh it's still there though, don't worry if you love butt-rock), and while there is plenty of 90's guitar riffing the whole soundtrack had a much more "Megaman" vibe to it that kept me listening to the loop for longer than I anticipated before muting it for something else.
This is, after all, an idle-clicker and it can get very repetitive, so listening to the same 5 songs can get old. In the long run, this is one you'll want to play with a favorite show or podcast in the background.
Final Thought
What you've got here is an incredibly addictive idle-clicker loop with a seriously savage selection of increasingly powerful and increasingly strange and alien weaponry to advance through. There's a progressive campaign trail to follow and build your upgrades with, and of course a long-haul endless mode complete with leaderboards to test your endurance against the rest of the world.
There's a strong end-game loops of far-away and hard-to-reach upgrades and even after using the fresh restart mechanic to mine for Diamonds, I still find myself idling away in Endless for more resources so I can one day see every crazy weapon Car Demolition Clicker has to offer. Eventually I will, but so far this is the one clicker that is actually an enjoyable ride along the way to see what the end game has in store
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