Rolling Dough

Tap dough into existence, hire hands that keep tapping after you stop, and decide when resetting the bakery is worth more than growing it further.

Date: 2026-09-30 Genre: idle clicker Status: Playable build

Concept

Rolling Dough is a one-screen bakery: a warm dough ball you tap for cash, and a shop list of helpers who tap for you once you can afford them. The fantasy is the small, satisfying climb from a single pair of hands to a factory floor that runs itself, and the itch to blow it all up and start again once that floor is finally humming.

How to play

Click or tap the dough ball (or press Space/Enter) to earn Dough. Spend Dough in the helpers list on the right to buy Apprentices, Mixers, Ovens, and further tiers that each add their own automatic Dough-per-second. Each helper tier only appears once you own at least one of the tier before it. "Stronger Wrists" doubles your click power and is available from the start. Once you've earned 20,000 Dough in the current run, the "Reopen the Bakery" button lights up. It resets your Dough and every helper to zero but grants permanent Golden Rolling Pins, each worth +2% to both click power and helper output, forever. There's no losing condition; M mutes, R wipes the save clean if you want to start over from nothing.

Core mechanics

• Tap-to-earn: every click adds your current click power to Dough, with a flour-puff number and a bakery-blob squish for feedback.
• Six helper tiers with escalating costs (roughly ×1.12–1.17 per unit owned) that unlock one at a time as you own the tier before them, so the shop grows as you do instead of dumping every option on you at once.
• A repeatable click upgrade ("Stronger Wrists") that competes with helpers for your early Dough: cheap at first, then pricier fast.
• Prestige ("Reopen the Bakery"): wipes the run's progress but converts however much Dough you earned since the last reset into Golden Rolling Pins, using a cube-root curve so the payout grows slower than the grind needed to reach it.
• A reset save option (button or R) for anyone who wants a completely clean slate, pins and all.

Progression & scoring

Lifetime Dough Earned is the number that never goes down. It's the score, and it's what you're actually chasing, since prestige zeroes out your current Dough on purpose. The fastest way to grow it is to keep dumping Dough into whichever helper currently pays back its cost quickest, rather than sitting on a pile waiting for a "perfect" purchase. The ramp isn't one dial: cost per helper climbs geometrically (pressure on your spending decisions), new tiers only show up once the previous one is seeded (pressure on sequencing), and the prestige math itself is a bet: wait longer for a bigger cube-root payout, or cash in now and let the fresh multiplier compound sooner. Golden Rolling Pins are the permanent record of how many times you've made that bet.

Look & feel

A warm bakery palette — buttery cream background, toasted-crust brown text, golden dough, and a dusty-pink accent on the prestige button. The dough itself is a hand-drawn canvas gradient blob with a seam line and a scatter of flour specks, not a static image, so it can squish on every tap. Sound is entirely synthesized WebAudio: a soft triangle "pat" on each click, a two-note square blip on every purchase, and a longer sawtooth sweep when you reopen the bakery. Nothing plays until your first tap, so it's never silent-by-surprise on a phone.

What makes it fun

• The prestige button is a real dare: the cube-root payout means grinding twice as long for your next run doesn't double your reward, so the smart move is usually to cash in sooner than instinct says to. Watching your doubled click power tear through helpers you used to save up for is its own small rush.
• Losing every helper on reset stings for about ten seconds, right up until you realize your multiplier just made the first tier trivial again.
• The unlock gating means the shop itself tells the story of your bakery growing: you never see the factory-tier row until your apprentices have earned it.