How Loot Finch checks a clicker game

Step 1: the game has to run in a plain browser tab on a large host

This edition takes games only from CrazyGames and Poki. Both publish terms, an age rule and a page of data for every game, so the same questions can be asked of all 6. Each address was loaded with no extension, no account and no download.

A script then clicked as a visitor would. 55 clicks in Capybara Clicker gave exactly 55 capybaras. 30 clicks in Kiwi Clicker sent off a bag of 25 kiwis and left 5. 2 clicks in Idle Breakout took the counter from $24 to $26.

A screenshot of each step is kept with our notes. They are not published, because this site shows no screenshots of games.

Step 2: numbers come from the screen

Prices on the game pages were read from the running game: the label in the shop before each purchase and the counter after it. Where we bought the same thing 2 or 3 times, each price is given. One game is the exception. In A Dark Room we lit the fire and did not play on to the first trap, and its costs were read from the game code as it ran inside the CrazyGames page.

Dates, vote counts and the flag for in-game purchases come from the data each host publishes with a game page. They are the hosts’ statements, and we have no means of auditing a vote count.

Step 3: money and age are read from UK store pages and the hosts’ terms

Where a host links an app edition, its Google Play page was read with the country set to the UK and its App Store page on the /gb/ address. Age ratings are quoted from those listings and labelled as belonging to the app. The hosts’ own age rules are quoted from their terms.

The computer running the check was in Thailand. That matters in 2 places. The adverts round the games were not the ones a British visitor would see. And Poki words its age rule by country, so the 16 we quote is the figure served outside the UK.

What rules a game out

• a slot machine, roulette, wheel or lottery, even for in-game currency;
• random items sold for real money;
• content rated 18;
• a launcher, a download or a compulsory account;
• a host that publishes no terms and no age rule.

Idle Ants and Babel Tower were opened on the same day and held in reserve. The ledger gives the reason for each.

What we did not do

Nobody played any of the 6 to the end for this site, and no tab was closed to test income while away. We pressed none of the buttons that pay for watching a video. We print no review scores and no star ratings of our own; the ratings quoted are the hosts’ public figures with their vote counts. Lengths of play are left out because we found no source for them. The 3 attention marks in the picker are labelled est.

When facts are checked again

Every page carries the date 10 November 2026. When a fact is rechecked or corrected, the change goes into the ledger under its own date.