Campaign Clicker

The USA presidential elections are always quite intriguing to watch, especially since the law allows the candidates to campaign for years before the election actually begins. The final race is the most exciting, on the other hand, because that’s when only two candidates remain and they must pull out their biggest weapons in order to win the necessary votes.

Campaign Clicker is a simple clicker game in which your goal is to click until one of the candidates gets the most votes and wins the election. It’s actually as straightforward as it sounds, even if there are a couple of upgrades and bonuses you can juggle with, none of which are important enough to make or break the entire campaign. Hence, it can get boring in a rush if you have limited patience.

You get to choose the desired party at the beginning of the game, and they are the official ones, which means that you can be either a democrat or a republican. The candidates are the same as well, so you are either supporting Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Their VPs are included as well, although you can also opt for some fantasy characters when it comes to mascots and various ways to attract more voters.

You can gain votes by clicking, but it’s also possible to automatically raise them by purchasing various power-ups along the way. Bonuses randomly spawn around the campaign center as well, but there’s a limit you can use for every campaign, so it’s wiser to keep them for when you really need a boost. Speaking of which, you can aim for combos and multiply your score toward the end.

The bad part is that all of the upgrades seem rather pointless, because you pay with them using votes. Hence, spending a few thousand votes for a small increase in the votes-per-second stat is not really worth it, because it seems like you aren’t solving anything. Thus, the whole thing gets monotonous and repetitive in a rush, which is not good news in a clicker game.

In the end, Campaign Clicker is not exactly a good game, but it’s not terrible either. The in-app purchases are kind of annoying, and even with those the game feels very boring and repetitive. Thus, more variety was needed to make the experience feel more fun.