Candy Box (Series)

Candy Box: Minimalist Browser-Based Role Playing

Explore a browser-based role playing incremental game series where you start with just a simple candy, click to gather more and unlock upgrades and new areas.

What is Candy Box (Series)?

Candy Box is a series of minimalist browser-based incremental/idle role playing games developed by French indie developer Aniwey. The first game was released in 2013, became viral, and spawned multiple sequels.

In the original Candy Box game, the player starts off in front of a simple candy. By clicking on the candy, you gather basic candies to spend on purchasing upgrades and unlocking weapons, armor, areas and quests. Despite the simple ASCII graphics, through incremental upgrades the player can explore a surprisingly large world. The focus is on unlocking new content through basic gameplay loops of gathering resources and spending them to progress.

The sequels Candy Box 2 and Space Candy continue the formula of the original while expanding the idle/incremental aspects. There is a greater focus on automation and exponential progression scaling of numbers. Through meticulous balancing and steady unlocks, the games provide the satisfaction of starting from a basic clicker and progressing to deep RPG/adventure worlds.

At their cores the Candy Box games employ simple graphics and gameplay while creating an enticing sense of mystery via a slow drip-feed of new areas. This gives them strong replayability and makes the series influential among hyper-casual and incremental games. They are accessible as free browser-based games requiring no downloads.

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