I've played Universal Paperclips from start to finish 4 times! I loved it. In fact, I loved it so much the last time around that I wanted to have another game "somewhat like it" in the background -- that's where the recent Cookie Clicker tab came from.

I always recommend Universal Paperclips to people who don't like cookie clicker games, because I fell in love with it the first time I tried it (heard of it from the Hello Internet podcast)

Universal Paperclips is the cure for all other clicker games.

Once you've played a fair and truly exponential clicker through a few times you can't tolerate the forced linearity of a pay-to-win clicker app.

I played Universal Paperclips, and converted a HectoVerse (100 Universes) to paperclips.

Long covid sucks.

Spaceplan is a pretty fun and slightly comedic play through one as well http://spaceplan.click/