Saturday Casual Gaming 24: Press the Button

Game: Press the Button
Developer: Truefire
Platform: PC (Kongregate)
Style: Pixel, Incremental, Idle, Clicker

In the beginning, there is only the button. Large, and red, it taunts you. Vengefully, you jam your thumb down upon it, if only to silence its mocking. You get a red dot.

This is Press the Button.

A game about spamming a button, goblins, and a naked sorcerer.

This is another incremental game, simple and straightforward! You have automatic clickers, you upgrade them, you earn statues and coins and gems. You have prize boxes. You have a time warp that may make you motion sick.

There are three basic autoclickers: Cursors, Goblins, and the Hermit. Cursors are little arrows that automatically push the button. They surround the button like bullies on a nerd at recess in the 1990s. Goblins run around and jump on the button. They sometimes get tired and need a break, but they've got a heckin good work ethic for an oppressed people who live solely to jump on a button in a void.
The Hermit is a naked old man who thinks really hard.

As you level up your clickers, they have new boosts. The Goblins have a Taskmaster who looks like if Moneybags & a Gnork had a kid in Spyro. He runs around and gathers coins from the jumping Goblins. The Hermit learns new spells, but he also gains clothes the more you level him up (which is a relief), gathers Time Gems (which are another currency), and lets you collect statues, which are nice little achievements.

Skills are a thing for both the Hermit and the Goblins, and they're pretty fun to play with.

You can also, as I've mentioned, buy Mystery boxes. These can contain other Mystery Boxes, Time Gems, Goblin Coins, and Time Warps. Some may contain statues, but I can't confirm that yet. All I can say is this: The Time Warp blur can be turned off and that's a good thing if, like me, you already have blurry vision so it's unsettling to you.

This was the only other picture I could find online of this game.
I haven't gotten to the Ragnarok stage yet...
We shall see!

I'm really enjoying this silly little game, and the music by Kevin MacLeod is pretty catchy, though I mute it for my sanity. I also like the landscape art by Katharina Schrempf, whic you're seeing in that little YouTube still above.

This game is fun, simple, and runs pretty smoothly for me, so I highly recommend it to any other casual clicker out there as a good time-waster while you wait for things to download, while you're waiting for sleep to claim you, or while you're just hanging around waiting in general.

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