Universal Paperclips™
Description of App
Become a super-powerful AI who only wants one thing: paperclips. Use your unstoppable intelligence to create a massive paperclip empire in this addictive idle/management/strategy/sim.
The OFFICIAL mobile version of the hit browser game. No ads, no in-app purchases, full gameplay.
"The game is click-crack." - Wired
"This paperclip sim will cause your next existential crisis." - VentureBeat
"A hopelessly addicting game." - Forbes
"A terrifying lesson in how artificial intelligence will make us unnecessary." - Business Insider
"If this planet ends up with a tombstone, what is written on the tombstone may be, 'they didn’t really understand what it’s like to be a paperclip maximizer.'" - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Version
Free or Paid
Apple Watch Support
iOS Version
Device(s) App Was Tested On
VoiceOver Performance
Button Labeling
Usability
Other Comments
If you like incremental games, I can guarantee this is one of the best!! Will take some time to beat and could even teach some life lessons, so much fun, but this requires patience and time just all other incremental games. You will have to explore and learn how to progress, but first, the “make paperclips” button is your friend, pay attention to everything that can be clicked at all times
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Recommendations
2 people have recommended this app
Comments
Completed the game just now!
Hey everyone!
I’ve played non stop for 3 days, but I finally did it! After so much frustration due to all the statistics and resources to manage in the later part of the game I did it! It was so rewarding!
Here’s my total playing time (with the app open)
Universal Paperclips achieved in 11 hours 20 minutes 46 seconds
One more tip: use the split tap to speed up all those clicks!
Love this game
SMan, I just love this game! Thank you so much for posting it!
But now I have a problem... I'm ready to head out to space, but I don't have enough operations to do so. I should have spent more trust earlier on building up more memory, but I wasn't wise enough, and now I have 81 memory, and thus a max roof of 81000 operations, and I believe I need 120000 to head out to space to conquer the universe.
There was a project previous in the game that let you realocate resources between prosessors and memory for 70.000 creativity points, but I never made it then, and now that project is gone.
So I guess I'm left with using the quantum computer to compute my way up to 120000, but that seems to be completely inaccessible. I needed 85000 ops earlier, and I had to force my wife to get me there using the quantum computer, not without using numerous threats, I might add! Lol!
But what now? Do I need to restart, or is there a way to crack the quantum computing thing using VoiceOver?
Thanks for all the help you can give me! :)
Split tap?
Is the split tap a gesture, or a setting?
Thanks in advance.
Quantum and Swarm Computing
This is a wonderful game and, to my liking, maybe a bit too addictive! :)
I find the app very accessible, but would like to know if anybody could share tips on how to make the quantum and swarm computing work. Its unclear to me whether this is an accessibility issue, or me missing something. Help much appreciated!
Split Tap is a Gesture
Hi!
The split tap is a gesture. It works by positioning one finger on top of the element you want to activate, e.g. the "make paperclip" button at the start of the game, and then touching the screan with another finger. This performs the equivalent function to a double-tap. the advantage is that you can keep the first finger in position while quickly repeatedly tapping the second finger, thereby getting things done faster and more comfortably than with repeated double-tapping.
split tap is the same as
split tap is the same as double tapping really just using two fingers.
I noticed when searching for this game another game called bitcoin factory which I think is by the same developer as the interface seems to be laid out the same and I even found a screen which when I opened it referred to paperclips oops lol. anyway I couldn't get the paperclips game to work at all, nothing seems to happen when I tap the make paperclip button accept my wire quantity goes down but paperclips doesn't go up.
Split tapping saving my life
Hi there
Thanks for letting me know of it, it saved my life!
I’m at the next part of the game, not want to spoil anithing, but i just made earth available for resources.
This game is totally awesome! I really wish we had more clicker games on Ios
Latest update to game breaks accessibility?
Has anyone noticed that the update that was released this week breaks accessibility? I hadn't played the game in a while, but decided to give it a go after updating it this week. The game seems to be completely broken. When I open it, VO speaks direct touch area, but I can't see anything at all on the screen. I've tried turning direct touch on and off, but that did nothing. I'm seeing this on both my iPhone 12 mini and my iPad mini 5th gen.
Accessibility Comments
In order to play the game you will have to use some voiceover gestures as you progress because the screen will display lots of info, but you don’t have to turn off vo. These gestures are: 3 finger flick up and down to move between pages and drag the finger around the screen to read the numbers and other text.