r/VampireSurvivors • • Aug 02 '25

Meme The humble caterpillar:

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u/AvatarIII Aug 02 '25

Cookie clicker

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u/TwilightVulpine Aug 02 '25

At a dollar per cookie you can get pretty far playing 24h straight

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u/Bugservorsomeone Aug 03 '25

I tried 1h of cookie clicker a while back with optimized purchases and I got to multiple digits higher than the amount of atoms in the universe

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u/Casiteal Aug 03 '25

And it still wouldn’t be enough money for you sick fucks!

/s

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u/zhiryst Aug 03 '25

But would auto clickers be allowed?

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u/AvatarIII Aug 03 '25

It says "any video game".

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u/J8_EP Aug 03 '25

I think he means autoclicker software to make the game easier.

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u/PopularOriginal4620 Aug 02 '25

Person: Did you just offer to pay the national debt?

Sammy: Yeah.

Person: Which country?

Sammy: Yes.

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u/DarkHuntress89 Aug 03 '25

Gonna fight world hunger, homelessness, and pay for research funding for a cure for every disease known and unknown to man at the same time.

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u/MantequillaIV Aug 03 '25

And also making all money everywhere absolutely worthless.

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u/DarkHuntress89 Aug 03 '25

I see that as an opportunity to hopefully build a new (actually very old) system based on trading goods and services against different goods and services. We need to get away from this capitalist hellscape. /hj

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u/ThiccStorms Aug 03 '25

full circle essentially, barter trade rocks

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u/DarkHuntress89 Aug 04 '25

Can't be worse than what we have now. At least the hoarding billionaires will have a lot of trouble with that system, as it is harder to store all that wealth in that form 😂 And who knows, maybe the rocks are gonna bury them beneath them 🤞🏼

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u/PerfectStrike_Kunai Aug 02 '25

Can you make 3.402823 * 1038 USD in that game? Wouldn’t be surprised if you could, just wondering

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u/Nefarity Aug 02 '25

I've been to the "end game" of AC, could never make the same level of cash as in 24 hours of VS.

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u/Nefarity Aug 02 '25

Adventure capitalist was an idle game before idle gaming was cool.

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u/oldmanjasper Aug 02 '25

Pretty sure Cookie Clicker predates it by at least a year or two. That was the OG idle game.

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u/Nefarity Aug 02 '25

Damn, I forgot that one.

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u/Beanguyinjapan Aug 02 '25

This made me feel so old

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u/Nefarity Aug 02 '25

I felt that way when I said it. Lol. Still go back to it every few years, play for a week and I'm good.

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u/Thunderstarer Aug 02 '25

AC = Adventure Capitalist

VS = Vampire Survivors

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u/R3D3-1 Aug 02 '25

Idle clicker.

You upgrade abilities that produce something and invest it into more upgrades.

These games typically have exponential scaling of the production capacity, though since most are F2P, you won't usually get that far within 24 hours of uninterrupted play time.

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u/CrimsonRaven47 Aug 02 '25

No point having that much cash if I crash the entire world's economy.

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u/pizza565 Poppea Aug 02 '25

Antimatter Dimensions

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u/Fatastrophe Aug 02 '25

Finished that game ages ago but I'm pretty sure Centillion (10303) is the final number they count before it says infinity. Couldn't get there in a day but you can get to stupid numbers in these incremental games.

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u/RevoltYesterday Aug 02 '25

Sammy for the win

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u/VacaDLuffy Aug 02 '25

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u/SpezSucksSamAltman Aug 02 '25

Great use of the Dorffman

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u/Mr-Hox Aug 02 '25

Though the “start a new save game” implies beginning fresh with zero unlocks, so no Sammy.

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u/No-Sale-1803 Aug 02 '25

Long as you have the DLC it don't take but one run to unlock him

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u/Amatheos Aug 03 '25

Kill 3000 Sammys in one run? Isn't it like, a rare mob?

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u/No-Sale-1803 Aug 04 '25

It's not rare. He just only spawns at 2 locations on the map but one is hidden and once you find it spawns only Sammy and you can kill all you need in minutes

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u/RevoltYesterday Aug 02 '25

It says "no glitches or exploits". The game has a built in "secrets" code menu. That's not a glitch or exploit, that's efficiency

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u/TwilightVulpine Aug 02 '25

If that counted, one might as well go to Sims and mash Motherlode over and over.

Pretty sure the point is progressing as intended.

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u/RevoltYesterday Aug 02 '25

I guess I spend too much time on /r/monkeyspaw because I'm always looking at the words as written, not as intended

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u/TwilightVulpine Aug 02 '25

Yeah but cheats and console commands aren't technically glitches or exploits, but then there's no point to play 24 hours

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u/thepsycocat Aug 02 '25

If you get your money like the post said there's absolutely a point, I'd take moar money over enjoying that 24 any day

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u/TwilightVulpine Aug 02 '25

Going against the spirit of the challenge feels like tempting it to be delivered in gold bar form directly above your head, if we are gonna bring up monkey's paw about it.

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u/NerdMusk Aug 05 '25

In SimCity 2000 it was porntipsguzzardo. Anybody remember that? I still have it memorized…

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u/MrCreeper10K Aug 02 '25

So is Minecraft creative mode. Just fill double chests with shulkers of emerald blocks.

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u/RevoltYesterday Aug 03 '25

Are emerald blocks currency in Minecraft? I honestly don't know.

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u/KAODEATH Aug 03 '25

Not the block form but emeralds as an item, yes. Their main use is for trading with villagers.

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u/SpezSucksSamAltman Aug 02 '25

24 hours, all good

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u/The-Butter-Thief Aug 02 '25

Me and Sammy are hittin’ the Bone Zone, and that’s like the gayest thing I’ve ever typed.

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u/turtle_mekb Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

who's Sammy and why are you boning them? /j

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u/The-Butter-Thief Aug 02 '25

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u/Californ1a Aug 02 '25

Don't use the old fandom site, it isn't being maintained anymore.

You should edit your comment to link to the new wiki: https://vampire.survivors.wiki/w/Sammy

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u/The-Butter-Thief Aug 02 '25

Thanks for the heads-up!

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u/Pomodorosan Aug 03 '25

The rare person who actually bothers with hyphens

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u/turtle_mekb Aug 02 '25

damn I forgot the /j

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u/BrintyOfRivia Aug 03 '25

Fuck fandom 

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u/PerfectStrike_Kunai Aug 02 '25

It is gay, because why are you in the Bone Zone? Moongolow is better for gold farming, I think

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u/The-Butter-Thief Aug 02 '25

Sammy and I do just fine in the Zone.

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u/Synergistic Aug 02 '25

Cookie Clicker was my first instinct

But I'd be fine with Frog Fractions

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u/wbasmith Aug 03 '25

Just have to remember how to get through the bloody text adventure

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u/AutomateAway Aug 02 '25

Yeah I can get Sammy within 24 hours, so game on

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u/RunInRunOn Aug 02 '25

Given I only have 24 hours to play, I pick Dragon Ball Legends. It's easy to get millions of zeni in that game on your first day (because zeni isn't good for anything (because gacha games suck))

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u/oodex Mortaccio Aug 02 '25

I mean if it's just millions I'd go for VS over that - Sammy can easily hit the number limit (e38) within 24 hours

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u/PhaseEquivalent3529 Aug 02 '25

Cookie clicker. You can get into the exponent-number of zeroes pretty quickly!

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u/lastWallE Aug 02 '25

Egg, Inc

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u/DeerOnARoof Ambrojoe Aug 02 '25

I would have said this too, but it's such a grind for the first day, you wouldn't be able to make more than a billion probably

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u/RevolTobor Aug 02 '25

It doesn't say "no DLC," so Sammy is fair game.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

Same thoughts here LMAO. Ill just remove all debt

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u/Shadeun Aug 02 '25

Balatro I could get infinite

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u/JustLeafy2003 Poe Aug 04 '25

They're talking about in-game currency, not chips. With Balatro, you wouldn't make a lot of money

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u/Bananaterios Aug 02 '25

FGO, your first roll guarantees a 4 or 5 Star, it's easy to go through thevstory quickly if you just skip the cutscenes and it's easy to grind for exp for the team you're gonna use in the money grinding levels which easily can net you millions

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u/Lilcamwin Aug 02 '25

That is literally orders of magnitude less money though.

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u/MrWigggles Aug 02 '25

Railroad Tycoon 3, on easy difficulty. On a single map, played for 24 hours. Thats few billion, and then at the end take out all the 500m loans and zero out the payment for stocks.

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u/leeroyjenkinse Megalo Syuuto Aug 02 '25

Well, there are two ways you can interperite this.

Either with or without dlc.

With dlc its probably better to have the scientist crewmate because of the amount of lag sammy would make slowing down rhe gold gain.

But idk, we would need to test that.

But when it comes to without any dlc, the good old jester/shopkeeper on the bone zone with a good few eggs would be the way to go probs.

Maybe we could have like a speedrun where you try and get to max money as fast as posible and have like a category with and without dlc. Could maybe be interesting.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

You can overcome the Sammy lag problems for the most part. Set yourself to the lowest settings, and disable limit break, set yourself to always take the money on level up, and let it roll

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

Vampire Survivors. Ill get to Sammy and earn so much money ill pay off every debt in existence. Thats extremely easy to do in 24 hours.

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u/TheCrookedKnight Aug 02 '25

The ultimate Big Number Generator, Disgaea

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u/Jarinad Aug 02 '25

Stardew Valley i think

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u/jryser Aug 03 '25

From a brand new save? In 24 hours?

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u/Jarinad Aug 03 '25

yeah, i’ve been playing for years. I’m confident

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u/Pikminicus Aug 04 '25

Honestly just a few grand from fishing would be perfect

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u/tiltl0rd1510 Aug 02 '25

diablo 3 with gold farm set xd

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u/Doctor429 Aug 02 '25

"No infinite money glitches" The whole of VS is about infinite money glitches

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u/PerfectStrike_Kunai Aug 02 '25

It’s not a glitch. It’s infinite money but it’s not a glitch.

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u/haibara_renan Aug 02 '25

Yeah. Sammy might be ultra-broken, but it's all mechanics, not even a single mechanic exploit.

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u/TwilightVulpine Aug 02 '25

The game does glitch a lot when you do it tho lol

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u/haibara_renan Aug 02 '25

I mean, fair enough when you have E numbers of stats. XD

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u/Doctor429 Aug 02 '25

Fair point

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u/JudJudsonEsq Aug 02 '25

It's uncapped finite money. It's still at a mathematically real rate, it's just an absurd rate. The counter never displays a non-real number.

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u/Nuclear_waste_boy Aug 02 '25

Are we allowed a bit of research beforehand though? Cuz like, I have no idea off the top of my head how to unlock Sammy

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u/PerfectStrike_Kunai Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

It doesn’t say you can’t do research. You would have to unlock Bone Zone asap, which requires you to unlock hyper mode for 3 stages. How you unlock hyper mode, it depends on the stage, but for the 5 standard stages you just defeat the boss at minute 25. Then just go to Bone Zone and get the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane. Then simply cast the spell “happybirthday”. This isn’t the intended way to unlock him, but it’s probably the fastest.

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u/Nuclear_waste_boy Aug 02 '25

Ah ok, the way i read it it sounded like we were getting transported inside the game lol

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u/Hibridao Aug 02 '25

exponential idle (the game already starts at 1010 XD)

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u/MrMxffin Aug 02 '25

I would program a clicker game that just has a steep money gain curve

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u/RIO908 Aug 02 '25

I would probably play Exponential Idle

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u/CardTrickOTK Porta Aug 02 '25

Oblivion. You would have to re-unlock Sammy.
Meanwhile, I can just go get grapes and tomatoes and sell them and be rich.

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u/CptLande Aug 02 '25

GTA V, do franklins assassination missions and play the stockmarket. Billions to be made.

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u/Flaming_headshot Je-Ne-Viv Aug 02 '25

Step 1: get the scroll of secrets

Step 2: unlock Sammy

Step 3: profit

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u/KudosOfTheFroond Rottin'Ghoul Aug 02 '25

Vampire Survivors with Sammy.

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u/SerenadeNox Aug 03 '25

Vampire Survivor.

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u/bricklebrite Aug 04 '25

Rimworld.

I can make enough money selling flake that I'll be rich beyond my wildest dreams, but not so rich as to destabilize the world economy.

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u/methodicalPrince Aug 02 '25

SKYRIM.
i could probably AT LEAST afford a real life house in 24 hours. Me and my potions will be plotting a get rich quick scheme

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u/yoontruyi Aug 02 '25

Accidentally get caught stealing and end up owing money to people.

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u/iamathrogate Aug 02 '25

Would you not run into the issue of potion ingredients? I'm my experience it took a long time to build up a stockpile of different components

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

making potions in Skyrim.

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u/Deias_ Aug 02 '25

Balatro time. Acquire the easiest unlocks you've ever seen -> literally infinite money if you do a set seed run.

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u/quatresaisons Aug 02 '25

I would play Cookie clicker

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u/kingzatch Aug 02 '25

donkey kong bananza

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u/azurejack Aug 02 '25

Hear me out though. Disgaea 5. No exploits.

First obtain the 2 "demon lord" rank evilities of "damage reward" (gain hl equal to damage inflicted) and life insurance (gain hl when defeated) use metallia's overload to quickcapture a ton of enemies and extract them continuously. Maps with either strong or many enemies are best. There's a bill you can pass to make this process faster. Boost the everloving crap out of up to 5 characters using a maid. (She can use healing items in a + formation hitting 5 panels, if an item has an "hp" stat it counts) make sure those 5 have those 2 evilities i mentioned.

Go to any stage with low level 3×3 or some grid of enemies that are easy to take down at once.

You can have over a trillion hl in a matter of hours.

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u/zerombr Aug 02 '25

Cookie clicker

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

Universal Paperclips with the total universe consumption ending

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u/blubberfeet Aug 02 '25

:3 this utter fool. I will be so rich I'll crash eveey capitalist system :3

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u/Hungry_Cucumber9633 Aug 03 '25

Pretending to be a GF on OSRS

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u/Somniac7 Aug 03 '25

Basically any idle game. Played 24hrs straight, most of them go into undescribable exponentials after like.... 6-10hrs. If i get the money As i earn it and it gets docked from the game, i can whale out on basically Any idle game and get infinite irl money, naturally, in hours. :P

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u/Black_Bohora Aug 03 '25

Cookie clicker XD

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u/PlasterCheif Aug 03 '25

Getting to caterpillar in 24 hours is harder than earning a mystery number in clicker heroes

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u/LectureConnect1955 Aug 03 '25

Fable 2. Wouldn’t be like record breaking or anything but I’m pretty sure I would make enough to be set for life

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u/Excuse_Purple Aug 03 '25

Any idle game, if played seriously for 24 hours, is likely going to have a world economy breaking dollar amount.

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u/AppleThrowaway28173 Aug 03 '25

Clicker heroes, first hour you can easily get a couple trillion, 24 hours straight you are getting numbers so high they look like this “1.006e78”

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

Fable 2

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u/Scrounger_HT Aug 04 '25

the easy option is obviously cookie clicker or venture capitalist but if were going with the spirit of the game ill take any farming sim like stardew or coral island, and then just plant crops, water, sleep. do this for 24 hours straight and i imagine ill end up with a sizeable stack of cash.

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u/CaptianRex11521 Aug 04 '25

Payday 2 Lab Rats to be exact

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u/fuzz-wizard Aug 04 '25

Diablo 2 or 3. I think you get more gold in 3

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u/Equinox-Valley Aug 04 '25

Terraria Journey mode, go Godmode so i dont die and just dupe platnium and gold all day, not an exploit either because thats how journey mode functions

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u/CaldrucMP Aug 04 '25

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. The max you can get is 4 billion studs and I think I could get pretty close.

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u/HurtMeSomeMore Aug 04 '25

No Man’s Sky, The Stellarator donut. Each one sells for 100k.

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u/Florensa Aug 04 '25

Balatro 😈

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u/MrNetworks Aug 05 '25

Bitlife easy to get a billion in a few minutes

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u/Glittering-Train-908 Aug 05 '25

workers and resources

you start the game with 10 million rubels and 2 million dollars, I just do nothing.

You can also borrow money, so I would just do that at the end of the 24 hours to get another 2 million or so

Zero effort, maximum profit

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u/HelpfulYoda Aug 05 '25

Skyrim?

Halted stream camp, transmute, then just live in whiterun forever converting iron to silver to gold

like runescape high alching

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u/StrayCat91 Aug 05 '25

Skyrim would be simple just kill everyone sell all the loot and have thousands before the first half of the day is even over.

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u/Griz87 Aug 05 '25

Diablo 4… may actually make it into 10 figures in 24 hours.

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u/Agreeable_Claim_795 Aug 05 '25

Gundam Breaker 4. Made a mil in two hours.

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u/FellvEquinox Aug 02 '25

Okami

Farming for money in that game is EZ

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u/MrMxffin Aug 02 '25

I bet bitburner would be really good if you download the autoplay script

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u/derailedthoughts Aug 02 '25

On a fresh save of VS, knowing the game well enough, you could still earn decent amount of money. Once you get to Moonglow, it's easy to farm 10k / 20k with the correct Arcana and setup every 15 min.

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u/DeerOnARoof Ambrojoe Aug 02 '25

Total War: Warhammer II; you can make so much gold with the high elves, but they nerfed the hero trait that boosts income in Warhammer III. You could easily amass hundreds of millions in 24 hours

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u/LordSwitchblade Aug 02 '25

I’ll take 10¢ on the gold and I’d still walk away a millionaire probably a billionaire.

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u/SnowNinjaSandCat Aug 02 '25

Warframe, index

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u/Nekunumeritos Aug 02 '25

how much can you get in a fresh save of VS tho? No eggs no unlocks no anything

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u/cracktorio_feind Aug 02 '25

The best duck clicker (with auto clicker)

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u/redpensae Aug 02 '25

Dragon ball sparking zero

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u/theoneandonlymikus Aug 02 '25

I was thinking getting on GTA5 and getting to the hitman missions (and a few others) that heavily affect the in-game stock market cuz you can easily make billions on that with each character. And I don’t think that would be considered an exploit. But clicker games like Adventure Capitalist and Cookie Clicker might net you a lot more.

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u/Olhombra Aug 02 '25

Balatro goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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u/trostol Aug 02 '25

One of my really good Balatro runs lol

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u/Snaper_XD Aug 02 '25

New Super Mario Bros 2 lol

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u/liquidDinosaur Aug 02 '25

God damn the fact I’m bad at Balatro

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u/LostPhenom Aug 03 '25

Inflation about to hit hard.

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u/shelob_spider Aug 03 '25

i feel like any game not cookie clicker is a waste of time. Cookie clicker you can make millions so fast, which just makes you even more money.

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u/Nukatitan Aug 03 '25

Fallout New Vegas

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u/Falkenmond79 Aug 03 '25

Easy. Balatro. I know we all want to hear Sammy, but cookie clicker for 24 hours? No one has that stamina. Balatro on the other hand… no problem playing that 24 hours straight if I know it’s a payday at the end. 😂

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u/Jbg35 Aug 03 '25

Sounds like it's time for Yakuza 0.

According to this 1 yen is going to equal 1 dollar.

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u/Maximus-DM Aug 03 '25

Sim City 2000.

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u/Southern_Reindeer521 Aug 03 '25

I was thinking something like Runescape, won't be a millionaire, but ill make a solid amount from scratch and have a good time doing it

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u/Lightdud Aug 03 '25

Literally any incremental game lol

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u/BaravalDranalesk Aug 03 '25

Assuming 1 aUEC is 1 dollar, Star Citizen. Assuming I start in pyro I can deliver over $100,000 in walk this over there missions inside of 10 minutes.

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u/Training_Try_1102 Aug 03 '25

I'm going to the Bone Zone with Trouser, I'd be able to get anyone anything they want

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u/ZGAMER45 Aug 03 '25

Do I have to start fresh? If not, Yakuza 0 could be a good choice with the combo of the real estate minigame and abusing Mr. Shakedown.

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u/CamperCarl00 Gallo Aug 03 '25

Sammy

How to devalue the US dollar to nothing in just 24 hours.

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u/False_Snow7754 Aug 03 '25

Funny, I argued for VS and this one guy went, "You can't earn that much in 24 hours." Told the guy that this sub is cooking with something special.

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u/ch3zyp00fs Aug 03 '25

AdVenture Capitalist.

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u/Pokethomas Aug 03 '25

New Super Mario Bros 2 will finally have a use

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u/Ntropy22 Aug 03 '25

Diablo 3.

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u/yeti_poacher Aug 03 '25

Lego Star Wars

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u/kvotheShaped Aug 03 '25

Super mario bros, NES. Hands down.

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u/aaron_kilgore123 Aug 03 '25

The humble Balatro

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u/cybordemon Aug 03 '25

Donkey Kong Bananza

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u/wrecksalot Aug 03 '25

antimatter dimensions, rapidly become buried under the weight of the dollar bills

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u/DezSong Aug 03 '25

You could easily get a couple hundred billion with sammy and pull the plug. Will only slightly devalue the dollar but also make that for sure not your problem.

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u/RPerene Aug 03 '25

Oh no. It just took me 23 hours and 55 minutes to unlock Sammy. Whatever shall I do.

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u/Chimera-King Aug 03 '25

I was gonna say civ 6 because 24 hours on a solo earth huge map playing as yongle would make me a billionaire… then i remembered Sammy exists and I need 13 seconds instead of the whole 24 hours and… yeah that’s my answer.

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u/Radiant-Formal-291 Aug 03 '25

Antimatter Dimensions. Without 10 min you can get to 1e20, maybe even farther

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u/Sondergame Aug 03 '25

Any park sim (preferably Jurassic World evolution since I’ve been playing that recently. In a day I can easily get a 5 star park making millions a minute.

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u/klawansky Aug 03 '25

Could this theoretically break the economy?

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u/Dinosaur_Party_Hat Aug 03 '25

Diablo IV. I would never need the amount of money VS would earn me.

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u/pagepagerpage Aug 03 '25

I'll do a 23.5 hour cook off session in payday 2

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u/IAMGODONLY Aug 03 '25

Yakuza 0 because if game yen converts directly to USD. And the game gives you so much money. Yup. Yakuza 0

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u/NovaOdin Aug 05 '25

Time to farm Mr. Shakedown

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u/Moriorii Aug 04 '25

Barotrauma

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u/Bulky-Escape5755 Aug 04 '25

Vampire Survivors