Addictive New Clicker Game Sixty Four Raises Questions About Our Drive to Optimize Pointless Systems
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Sixty Four is an idle clicker game that starts simple but quickly becomes an intricate and mesmerizing system for extracting resources.
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The game offers little explanation for why you're extracting these resources, yet it somehow compels you to build bigger and more efficient extraction machines.
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The visual and sound design is superb, making the constant flow of resources feel satisfying. The game world gradually expands in scope.
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The author has become deeply engaged with Sixty Four, spending over 8 hours extracting resources to build new machines to extract more resources.
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While fun, the game's addictive nature raises philosophical questions about why we feel compelled to pointlessly expand and optimize systems just because we can.