With the cookies falling in the background, the 100 cursors dutifully clicking, and the red milk, I thought Cookie Clicker was making some post-apocalyptic statement.

Cursors are the first passive cookie producer players can buy in Cookie Clicker, and at only 0.4 cookies produced per second, they might not seem like a good investment.

You can try Cookie Clicker 2.0 for yourself online; be prepared to wear out your left mouse button for a little while until your automated cursors start paying dividends.

Version 2.0 of Cookie Clicker is the culmination of a nearly two-year-long beta period, which gradually rolled out a series of significant balance changes for the deceptively simple baking sim.