MagiClean

The task in this clicker game is to clean all the rooms of a magic academy. Each room is unique and has a few things you need to click on, such as cobwebs, broken statues, and paintings that need repairing, or the occasional ghost or some other monster. Each of these things has its own health bar, and the scene is completed once you remove all the trash and fix every broken object. The reward for clicking is magic dust, the main currency, but you also randomly earn four types of crystals, each connected to one of the four main elements. However, crystals only start showing up once you unlock the four helper ghosts tied to each element. Alongside ghosts, you also gain spells as you progress through rooms. Both ghosts and spells can then be used during room cleaning to speed things up. Each summon and spell can be used as many times as you want, but each has a cooldown. While spells are general and deal damage to all objects, ghosts are more restrictive and the task has to match their element. For example, while the wind ghost can clean cobwebs, the fire ghost is the only one that can melt frozen statues. Of course, your clicking can handle any task, but ghosts deal much more damage compared to your clicking power. What ruins the gameplay is the fact that ghosts cannot handle anything on their own, so you need to click on every single one and then click on the task you want them to handle. This completely breaks the idle mechanic because once a ghost is done, it just flies around instead of automatically moving on to the next task. As already mentioned, cleaning, or dealing damage, rewards you with magic dust and crystals. Both are used to upgrade either your spells or your clicking power. You cannot replay previous rooms, but that is never really an issue because each new room contains much stronger objects that provide far more resources. A spell or ghost can be upgraded several times, each time for a higher price, but you can also invest resources into your clicking power. Because of the poor idle mechanics and increasingly tougher rooms where you have to click for ages and micromanage every single ghost, there is not much fun left after the first few minutes. However, if you are stubborn enough to clean the first few rooms, you unlock a cauldron that adds passive resource gathering, which helps a bit. The cauldron has shelves you can fill with random ingredients, each boosting passive gathering. If you combine two identical ingredients, you get a new one with an even better boost, and you can keep combining them further. Of course, you can only combine ingredients that are the same type and level. Overall, though, these extra perks arrive too late in a game that lacks good idle mechanics where you can leave it running in the background and come back later to collect the rewards.