Browser-based games are often where productivity goes to die, but that’s not the case with Cookie Clicker.

While the game does require a time investment of about ten minutes the first time you fire it up, after that it is automated and runs in the background. Even if you close the browser tab in which Cookie Clicker runs, it saves game progress – using, haha, cookies – and lets you continue as and when you feel like it.

As the name suggests, the game is about cookies. You start off clicking the big cookie on screen, which generates a cookie in the bank. Once you have enough cookies banked, you can spend them on more efficient ways to get cookies.

These range from additional cursors that automatically click, to grandmas that bake cookies, and even cookie farms that grow cookies from trees. The ultimate aim – and the game’s addictive hook – is to get the CpS (cookies per second) as high as possible. The more cookies being baked per second, the sooner you get to upgrade cookie production and buy better equipment.

Things like cookie shipments from the cookie planet, a portal to the Cookieverse, and an antimatter condenser that turns antimatter into cookies.

But like we said, there’s no need to sit there and manage things. Just set it up and leave it running, to enrich your browser with more cookies while you do real work.