Cookie Clicker is an incremental game created by Orteil. It was released in 2013 as a browser game, and re-released on the PS4 and PS5 on 22nd May, 2025. There are 49x trophies consisting of 1x platinum, 3x gold, 2x silver and 43x bronze. This trophy guide is based on version 2.052-1.02c.

Debug Mode

Debug mode was added on June 18th, 2025. Using the debug menu cuts down the time to platinum to 1-3 hours. This is because the final trophy (All-natural cane sugar) is a shadow achievement, based heavily on RNG, and can't be unlocked using this method.

Head to your bakery's name, and click it.
Click "Customize".
Add "saysopensesame" to your name. For example, "Pretty Muffinsaysopensesame".
To leave debug mode, remove "saysopensesame" from your name.

After debug mode is activated, you will unlock the "Cheated cookies taste awful" Shadow Achievement. An FPS counter will appear in the top-left, with frame meter below.

All upgrades "cost" 7x cookies, although with the debug menu, everything is "free". Click the following upgrades in the "Stats" menu:

Glucose-charged air - Sugar lumps can be harvested every 39 seconds, as opposed to 24 hours.
Magic shenanigans - Cookie production multiplied by 1000x.
Neuromancy - Toggle upgrades on or off at will in stats menu.

PS5 Milestones

Scroll down to milestones within the "Stats" menu and click the below milestone numbers with the top left being the starting number 1 (the circular cookie). The trophy names are also included below. You will have to scroll back down to click the milestones after clicking, so below this section is a screenshot of the milestone positions you'll have to click.

This will unlock 47 out of 49 trophies. Start clicking and buying upgrades and buildings until you get a billion cookies. After this point, sugar lumps are enabled. Leave the game running until the golden lump appears or gets auto-harvested.

Ascensions & Heavenly Chips

Ascensions are a major part of Cookie Clicker, allowing you to expand your cookie business to immense heights and idleverses. Ascensions grant you the use of heavenly chips (HC), which can be used to buy heavenly upgrades. The heavenly upgrades you buy in this section will never be deleted (unless you wipe your save). The amount of HC you gain is determined by how many cookies you have baked during the entirety of your game, which also determines your prestige level. Prestige Levelling (PL) follows a cubic pattern with having PL1 needing 1 trillion cookies baked (all time) (1³ x 1 trillion), PL2 needing 8 trillion (2³ x 1 trillion) and so on.

Progress towards the game's 49x trophies will be time-consuming, until you reach the second ascension. After this point, your progress will increase dramatically. This is because each PL gives a permanent 1% increase on your clicks per second (CPS), and (after the second ascension) you can spend 1 HC on "Twin Gates of Transcendence", which gives you the ability to make cookies whilst the game is closed. Couple this with the time & date exploit, and you'll make an immense amount of cookies to optimise your trophy hunting. You'll naturally unlock "Rebirth (Bronze)" for your first ascension and "Nihilism (Bronze)" during your several ascensions.

Time & Date Exploit

Cookie Clicker can be exploited to save a vast amount of time, compared to playing "normally". This exploit works on sugar lumps and on cookies (once you've ascended and spent 2 HC on the first two upgrades. This section was written based on a PS5 system, in May 2025.

Manually save your game in "Options", and close the game.
Once you're in the XMB, go to "Settings" in the top right, and press X.
Head to "System", then the "Date and Time" tab.
"Set Date and Time", then "Set Manually".
Change the year to 2035, and press X on "OK".
Go back to the XMB and boot up "Cookie Clicker".
Once in the game, you should now have a message appear that you have harvested 3,652 sugar lumps.

Here, we can now reap the benefits of our exploit. You can backdate the system time to the year 2000 to gain even more PL and cookies to buy buildings and upgrades, when you run the exploit to the year 2099.

Guides

Neverclick (Bronze) and Golden cookie (Bronze)

It is recommended that this is one of the first trophies that you start work on. This is because you require a new run (ascending prior to this will void the trophy).

Begin a new game, or click "Wipe Save" if you've played before.
Do NOT click the cookie on the left-hand side of the screen.
Wait for a golden cookie to appear. A message will appear on screen when a golden cookie appears (Press "Triangle" to enter movement mode).
Once the golden cookie appears, enter movement mode and click it. You'll unlock the "Golden cookie" trophy.
Once you have reached 15 cookies, select "Cursor" on the right-hand side of the screen and click it.
Wait until you have 18 cookies, and click cursor again. Once you have 100x cookies, and buy your first cursor upgrade in the top-right of the screen. This will increase your cookie count considerably quicker.
Buy your first Grandma, farm, mine, factory etc. Don't forget to buy upgrades to speed up your CPS.
Once you've reached 1,000,000 cookies baked (all time), head to "Options", save your game and then close the game down.
Re-open Cookie Clicker via the XMB.
Head to the left-hand side of the screen, and click the cookie. The bronze "Neverclick" trophy will unlock. The Shadow Milestone "True Neverclick" will also unlock, as well.

Leprechaun (Gold) and Fortune (Silver)

In order to unlock this trophy, you'll need to click 777 golden cookies. You'll naturally unlock the "Fortune" trophy after clicking your 77th golden cookie.

Wait for a golden cookie to appear. A message will appear on screen when a golden cookie appears (Press "Triangle" to enter movement mode).
Once the golden cookie appears, enter movement mode and click it.

This carries over after ascensions. You can check your progress via the "Stats" menu, under "Golden cookie clicks".

Level 10 Trophies (Bronze)

Levelling a building to level 10 requires 55 sugar lumps. There are 20x level trophies, which require a total of 1,100 sugar lumps in order to unlock. A sugar lump takes 24 hours to harvest, meaning that it would take 3 years and 5 days in order to unlock all 20x trophies. The level 10 trophies are as follows (ordered by building):

Of course, you'll still need to have the buildings in question bought before you can upgrade the buildings to Level 10. Levels of buildings carry over from ascensions.

Mathematician (Bronze)

In order to unlock this trophy, you'll need 1 of the most expensive building, 2 of the second-most, 4 of the next and so on and so forth. You may think that you'll need 1,048,575 buildings in total.

This is false.

Due to float64, it's impossible to gain this many buildings as buying this amount will result in a number too large for the game to process. The trophy is capped at 128 buildings required, up to Antimatter Condensers. This is still a minimum of 1,791 buildings required. Having more than the required amount of buildings does not void the trophy. A small table below details the amount of buildings required, alongside the cost of said building amount (not totalled).

Base 10 (Bronze)

In order to unlock this trophy, you'll need 10 of the most expensive building, 20 of the second-most, 30 of the next and so on and so forth. That's 2,100 buildings in total.

And a little extra (Bronze)

In order to unlock this trophy, you'll need to bake 10⁷⁸ cookies in one ascension. What exactly is 10⁷⁸? 10⁷⁸ is 10 followed by 78 zeros, which is 1 quinvigintillion, or:

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Big numbers. This is likely one of the last trophies you will unlock due to the sheer amount of cookies required.

A round of applause (Gold)

In order to unlock this trophy, you'll need to have at least 1,000 cursors during a run. It is highly recommended that you ascend several times prior to attempting to gain this amount of cursors, due to the sheer amount of cookies required (in the hundred novemdecillion territory).

Without HC upgrades:

498,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

With HC upgrades:

123,270,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Seasonal Events (Bronze)

There are 5x trophies related to seasons in the game.

Lovely cookies - Valentine's
Hide & seek champion - Easter
Spooky cookies - Halloween
Let it snow - Christmas
All hail Santa - Christmas

Seasons are started automatically and last from and to a certain date:

Valentine's: February 10th - 15th
Easter: April 13th - 20th (2025)
Halloween: October 24th - 31st
Christmas: December 15th - 31st

There are three methods to starting these seasons:

Playing on or between said dates.
Using the system time/date exploit.
Using the "Season Switcher" heavenly upgrade (1,111 HC) to trigger seasonal events at will.

Each season biscuit costs 1,000,000,000 + (CPS x 60 x 1.5n) cookies. n relates to the total number of season biscuits purchased. In order to unlock the 5x trophies, you are required to buy all upgrades related to the seasonal cookies.

Valentine's

The Valentine's event is the "easiest" trophy to unlock, as you are only required to purchase Heart Biscuits (dependent on how many cookies you have baked). Each upgrade increases your CPM by 2%.