Botnet Clicker

Posted March 19, 2025. Updated March 24, 2025. Played 3497 times for a total of 2906 hours.
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Botnet Clicker
Botnet Clicker is a hacking-themed incremental game where you build and manage your own botnet by cracking passwords, compromising devices, and installing cryptocurrency miners across a network of controlled machines.
Overview
In Botnet Clicker, you start with a simple laptop and must work your way up to controlling an entire network of compromised machines. Hack into devices, earn cryptocurrency, purchase upgrades, and eventually reach a state where you can reset for permanent bonuses.
Features
- Realistic Hacking Simulation: Crack passwords, compromise devices, and build your botnet
- Cryptocurrency Mining: Run miners on compromised machines to generate income
- Desktop-style UI: Manage multiple windows including hack console, botnet control panel, and crypto wallet
- Dark Web Interface: Purchase new targets and upgrades through a simulated TorX browser
- Prestige System: Reset your progress to gain permanent bonuses with Master Key tokens
- Save & Load: Export and import save codes to continue your progress
- Progressive Difficulty: From simple student laptops to government mainframes and quantum computers
How to Play
- Start Mining: Open the Personal Crypto Miner and type
start
to begin earning cryptocurrency - Buy Your First Target: Once you have 25 CC (cryptocurrency), open the TorX Browser from the Upgrade Store button and navigate to the Dark Forum to purchase access to your first target
- Hack Devices: Use the Hack Console to select targets and perform password cracking attempts
- Install Miners: After compromising a device, install a crypto miner on it from the Botnet Control Panel
- Upgrade Your System: Purchase upgrades from the TorX Browser's Black Market to improve your hacking efficiency
- Expand Your Botnet: Continue compromising higher-tier devices and growing your network
- Prestige: Once you've accumulated 1,000,000 password attempts, activate the Global Master Key to reset with permanent bonuses
Game Windows
- Personal Crypto Miner: Terminal interface for mining cryptocurrency on your own machine
- Hack Console: Select and hack target machines
- Botnet Control Panel: Manage compromised machines and install miners
- Crypto Wallet: Track your cryptocurrency balance and transaction history
- TorX Browser: Access the dark web for purchasing targets and upgrades
- System Performance: Monitor resource generation rates and prestige progress
- Settings: Save and load game progress
Progression
The game features 30 devices across 6 tiers of progression:
- Personal Devices: Student laptops, desktops, and gaming PCs
- Home Network: Routers, NAS servers, and mining rigs
- Small Business: Office equipment and web hosting servers
- Corporate: Firewalls, database servers, and data centers
- Government/Research: University servers, financial institutions, and government databases
- Advanced/Specialized: AI clusters, quantum computing labs, and global network infrastructure
latest update
Save functionality and Upgrades Fixed 9 March 24, 2025
-All updates now work properly
-New save functionality added so you can now refresh the page and your game state will keep
-All major bugs should be fixed
newest comments
Whats after prestige? Is it just you go on and on, resetting for a bonus... Or is there more behind it? I love the concept and UI of the game, but I need to know when to stop.
Really cool visual style and the idea in general, I really enjoy hacking-themed games. Unfortunately, there is nothing to do after prestige yet so hopefully it will evolve into something good in the future. For now it's just 30-minute game.
Chat um, My brain isnt braining rn ☠️
on mobile this game is praticaly impossible to play since most tabs are out of the screen, the most you can do is afk and earn CC to like. brag about. Idk.
I dunno, @sbloom85. For me it is like this: When hacking is active, it hacks specifically the targetted device. But, when inactive, you don't have any targets and decide to hack for the prestige.
top comments
Hi everyone, first off I would like to thank everyone for holding with me while I fix the bugs in this game.
- I've read all of your comments and feedback so far and am working on
fixes for everything.
- This is my first game and everything is coded in JS so give me some
time.
- So if you could avoid leaving a low review until the next update that
would be much appreciated.
- Also if there are any changes / features you would like added to the
game, comment here and let me know!
- Thanks again for understanding and I am so glad that some of you are
enjoying my buggy first game!
all hacked stuff gives 35% more actually sets your multiplier to 0.35 instead of 1.35
developer response: Everything should be fixed now :) sorry for the wait
I got to the point I could purchase every upgrade and bounced around with a save state to test some of the upgrade bugs other people mentioned. I really like the style and theme of this game, so I wanted to collect things in a single post for the dev.
I tried all the upgrades in every way I could. Individually, groups, complete sets, etc.
The GPU and CPU upgrades for your own machine seem to be fine. I watched my outputs when purchasing them and they seemed to exactly as the upgrade said. However, when purchasing GPU upgrades I noticed that I would have to stop my miner, and then start it back up for the upgrade to take effect. Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, with the hacker theming.
Broken upgrades are present in nearly every upgrade path though.
1. The first "Each target requires x% fewer attempts to crack" upgrade seems to work, but none of the others do.
2. All "+x% to all compromised devices' CPU and GPU output" upgrades are bugged. 20, 50, and 75 do nothing, and 35 actually multiples .35 instead of adding .35 to the multiplier, meaning it actually cuts your outputs by over half.
3. I tried looking at every stat I could and did not see "Increase overall output" upgrades do anything? I might have overlooked something, or maybe it's changing something that doesn't have a hard number attached, but I couldn't find anything different after purchasing them individually, or collectively.
4. I have the worst luck in the world, but I did my best to test the "auto complete" upgrades. I purchased both upgrades, saved. I would load the save, buy a target, and then load back. I did this 50 times (I'll bill for my playtesting later) and didn't get an auto complete once. I can see if things change at any point in the future, but my progress is getting slow from the lack of intended upgrades, so it's taking awhile to hack targets now.
I did all this testing around in an attempt to be helpful. Hope it does something for you, lawlessguy.
developer response: Thanks allot for the help, I can pay you in Botnet Clicker "CC" for your troubles, everything should be fixed now :) sorry for the wait.
Every game has issues. The feeling of the game is really immersive. Your UI is awesome. There's alot of little details that really bring the whole thing together. Even though there are some features left to be desired, you obviously put alot of thought and effort into making your first game. I think alot of commenters here forgot what makes galaxy.click so great. I'm eager to replay it after you fix the major bugs.
Fair warning : there is NO auto-save implanted, or is not working on Brave Browser at the very least.
Also, the upgrade that make "all hacked stuff to give 35% more" is bugged, reducing my total production by 66%, which made me reload the page to try and fix the bug.
developer response: Auto save is now implemented and all upgrades should work fine now! sorry for the initial bugginess.