Sakura Clicker
Winged Cloud's F2P clicker with a wardrobe economy: the clicker that funded a visual-novel empire.
by Winged Cloud · 29 July 2015 · Steam (Windows)
Sakura Clicker is Winged Cloud's free-to-play 2015 clicker (Steam appid 383080, verified via storesearch and appdetails after this entry's brief guessed 408450): tap the spirit, buy the upgrades, and gaze upon the game's actual business model, a small wardrobe of paid outfit DLC that bankrolled the Sakura visual novel line.
What the loop feels like
You click the spirit, the spirit drops gold, and the gold buys the next tier of clicking. That's Sakura Clicker.
Playing it today
Free on Steam, with the full store art set above (header, capsules, background, five 1080p screenshots) and three oEmbed-verified videos, from which a fourth candidate, a Sakura School Simulator video, was caught as off-topic and removed.
The verdict
A historically important clicker for cynical reasons: the DLC economy that launched a hundred visual novels started here, with the clicking as the free sample.
Gameplay videos
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