When comparing Bloons TD 5 vs Cookie Clicker, the Slant community recommends Bloons TD 5 for most people. In the question“What are the best pick up and play upgrade games playable in the browser?” Bloons TD 5 is ranked 1st while Cookie Clicker is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Bloons TD 5 is:
There's a great variation in towers, their stats and upgrade trees, as well as enemy types (bloons) and levels you have your battles in.
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Pros
Pro Great depth and variety
There's a great variation in towers, their stats and upgrade trees, as well as enemy types (bloons) and levels you have your battles in.
Pro Clean graphics
The gameplay in previous games (TD4 and lower) was a bit laggy at times, luckily TD5 has cleaned up the graphics to make them a bit more simple while also allowing for new designs that differentiate things in the game in order to make it easier to tell what is going on. The cleaned up graphics also allow for smother gameplay due to them using less resources, meaning no more laggy gameplay.
Pro Co-op mode
Unlocked at rank 10, two players can work together to beat a game, with a set map and difficulty, of Bloons. In co-op mode players can transfer money between them opening up new possibilities of gameplay.
Pro You never know what is next
Each upgrade costs more and more cookies to purchase and each hidden upgrade is not made available until you reach the amount of cookies it costs, so no matter if you need 100 cookies to purchase a new Grandma or a trillion to purchase some other tool you will always be left feeling like you just need to reach that next milestone.
Pro Addictive "gameplay"
While after 15 clicks the game can play itself, the constant goal of improving how many cookies one can click is pretty addictive in that there is always something to be improved upon.
Pro Game still runs when the browser is closed
The browser does not need to be opened for your bakery to keep earning cookies and sugar lumps, a recent form of currency added to the game. The cookie earnings will be reduced, but using the heavenly chip system, a currency earned when ascending the bakery, can be used to increase how many cookies are earned and how long the increased boost lasts for.
Cons
Con In-app purchases
This app does contain in app purchases, and plenty of them. Though they're not necessary for normal play, they are still present, and needed to unlock special perks (double cash mode). Everything else can be purchased with coins and bucks, which can be earned (or bought) through normal game play. They range from $0.99 - $49.99 per item.
Con Old graphics
Bloons TD's 2D Graphics are old and they don't fit in nowadays standards.
Con Coop mode networking is spotty
Frequent disconnects which can ruin a long game, no LAN mode or direct connect (it uses facebook).
Con Some may see the game as not a game
Incremental or as some know them "idle" games are not always received well by those looking for something with a bit more skill needed, basically the game will play itself at some point and from that point forward which can be pretty boring. So for those that are not interacting with the game that often (no clicking, no checking in often) it can be less of an interactive title than what some are looking for.
Con Some achievements take a long time to earn
Some of the most recent achievements added into the game involve earning and spending sugar lumps. Even with the upgrades meant to speed up the earning of sugar lumps, it will still take a long time to earn the achievements involving harvesting and spending them.
Con Boring
This is boring, you don't do anything what's the point.