Universal Paperclips

Everybody House Games

About this game

MAJOR UPDATE, DECEMBER 2025: We have pushed a new version that fixes the crashing bug that affected many Android players. It took us a long time to track this bug down and we apologize to everyone who experienced it. If you continue to have problems please let us know and we will do everything we can to address them. Thanks for your patience, and thanks for playing!

GAME DESCRIPTION: 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.

"This 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

Ratings and reviews

This has always been an excellent browser game, and the mobile version is quite strong - and adds a nice framework game to extend the playability beyond completion of the basic game dramatically. I did encounter one bug, and saw no easy way to report it: in the rare case where the price for "another token of goodwill" extends beyond $2 billion, the listed price remains at $2 billion but the price you must pay continues to double. I had over $3 billion and the option to buy remained grayed out.

Adding to the choir here - this would be hands-down a 5* game if it didn't crash every now and again (usually every 10-15 minutes). While you don't lose a lot of progress, it automatically reloads at the last save and those seem to happen about once a minute or so. It's frustrating and it's easy to lose track of exactly where you are. Fix the crashes and this would be a no-brainer 5* timekiller with no ads and nothing to buy to progress.

Great on web, and free there, too! I was happy to have such a great, albeit small and simple game with me anywhere without ads and without a connection, but it just crashes so much. 3 times in 15 minutes! I haven't lost any progress, but it's very frustrating to have the game shut off when you're racking up ops with quantum processing or during a crucial stock-market moment. A simple fix to that, + a dark mode, and it'd be 5 stars.