Meet Clicker Heroes: the most popular game on Steam right now

Clicker Heroes is at the top of the Steam charts right now, and a lot of people are scratching their heads over it. It's a clicker game (like the famous Cookie Clicker before it) where you literally just click on stuff to amass gold.

Clicker games are the ultimate mindless pastime. (I hesitate to call them "entertainment.") They are generally said to be particularly popular with bored office workers, although how much clicking can you do at your desk until your coworkers start to notice the noise and comment on it?

At any rate, clicker games can be weirdly popular, but are there really 40,000 concurrent users playing Clicker Heroes right now? Personally, I smell shenanigans!

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